30 cups down

Since I've been both frantically and passively working on prepping my kitchen freezer and my parents for stress free new baby time the past 36 hours have been broth creation. Roasting beef bones to then stew overnight to add veggies from the freezer stockpile of veggie odds and ends this morning. All told there was 30ish cups , which is over 7 pots of really big stews/soups /rice flavoring. We made up a chili with it this evening and sent the rest off to the freezer depths. The most torturous bit was waking up to the amazing smells and not actually having any food involved with it yet!

Hopefully it makes my life a little bit easier for the initial hurdles.

Quinoa de hummus

Very filling and nutritious and vegetarian, vegan even? Huh, I was just out of feta which I heard went well with the spinach/quinoa /chickpea conglomerate. So almond butter and extra salt and garlic for mine!

1 cup quinoa
1 can chickpeas
1 cup pureed spinach
Juice of a small lemon
2 tblspn tahini
1 heaping tblspn almond butter
2 tsp garlic powder (or more, your taste)
Salt and pepper
2 tblspn olive oil

After time the next day it was still a fleet of garlic, vampires beware !

Tears of curry fry

Start with your oil and make it the flavor base of the dish. My case was for lots of cloves of garlic and a medium sized serrano pepper.

 We added lots of veggies and I even forgot the green beans of course but everyone went through until there was a bare few bites left, so success! Plus capsaicin is good for your immune system or something like that of course. Veggies of the evening were half a bag of little carrots slimmed down to slivers,  2 bell peppers, 1 onion, 2 heads of bok choy. Is that the phrase? A head of bok choy? Or would it be a bundle? Parcel? Anyway, add the bottom portion of the bok choys in with the veggies and stir in the top tender portions a bit later so they don't wilt to death.

Proof of leftovers, we were all a bit starved beforehand.

Disclaimer, it made everyone cry and sniffle except for the wimp of the family who managed to go last and not pick up a single pepper flake!