(03-15-2020 10:42 PM)bullet Wrote: (03-15-2020 09:50 PM)miko33 Wrote: As many have already heard, OH has shut down bars and restaurants indefinitely. However, take out/drive-thru services are still allowed - for now. My daughter works at one of the grocery stores and she said that more stuff has been flying off the shelves beyond just the earlier shortages we've had so far with toilet paper (WHY???), sanitizing wipes/hand sanitizers, regular rice (but can still get Jasmine and Basmatti) and Mac 'n cheese boxes. My guess is that people are starting their scrambles for SOME additional food stuffs in light of the bar and restaurant shutdowns. My family cooks almost all meals at home, so as of now we are in pretty good shape inventory wise, and I expect eventually the shortages won't be so persistent as people realize they have way too much of certain products.
It will be interesting to see how those families, singles and couples who don't cook, rarely cook or just got used to dining out regularly will cope with the temporary moratorium. My family eats almost all of our food at home. On average we go out to eat a little less than once per week. This won't be an issue for us.
While the bar and restaurant and bar shutdown officially didn't start until 9 pm tonight, today is officially DAY 1 of the restaurant ban. Today we made Linguine with red tomato based sauce with meatballs, side salad mix of red leaf lettuce, iceburg lettuce, grape tomatoes, diced roma tomatoes and sharp cheddar cheese (yep, not quite the theme of Italian...I know) and homemade garlic bread knots. We started with a little over a gallon of sauce prior to the 3.5 hour simmer so we have leftovers for tomorrow and will still be able to freeze the rest for future meals.
You guys making anything good while you wait out the Covid-19 fiasco? Any good recommendations for future meals? Hoping to see a lighter thread given the grave discussions going on around us - even if the whole thing is actually overblown IMHO.
Well my wife's a good cook. The only thing she lets me cook is enchiladas.
But one simple thing I used to make when single was to make Kraft Mac & Cheese (using only half the butter they suggested), frying some ground beef and then putting that in with it. And if you don't mind pink food, put some tomato sauce in with it too.
Variations on that (You learn a LOT of variations as a starving surfer over the summers) Mac-n-Cheese, dump in a can of drained tuna, toss on some sliced pickled jalapenos. Bake in a large ramican or "boat". Actually quite serviceable.
Or, open the can of Chili that's been sitting on that shelf for 3 years, mix with the mac, Chili Mac! Damn fine meal, dump some Texas Pete on there for good measure.
Anyway, I'm a long recovering former Chef, The Mrs. is a fine cook from a family of fine cooks (I actually learned to cook cause my Mother HATED to cook. At all.). We typically do take out on a Friday or Saturday as a little treat, but that's about it. We both enjoy cooking, are good at it and will try just about anything. We both agree that Sea Urchin is a no-go for both of us, but other than that not much else.
Tomorrow's menu is a cop-out of sorts, but a hat-tip: Corned beef brisket, root veg's- Taters, carrots, parsnip, onion, maybe a turnip or two. Freshmade dark soda bread (yea, I know that's racissss!) Variety of the hottest mustards we can find for a little zing.
we keep a pretty well stocked pantry and frozen meats etc. Sausages of all kind, I make my own canadian bacon and dried beef for sandwiches or chipped beef. Do a LOT of cold and hot smoking and dabble in whatever fits our fancy.
Apparently local shelves got restocked already today, so not real worried there.
Also kind of "lucked" out (if you can say that here) in that both kids were out and traveling for SB, so we had put together "care packages" for each of them to take back to school. Coincidentally TP, spray lysol, bathroom cleaners, hand sanitizer, soap, shampoo etc., water bottles, gatorade, BEER, hard ciders you get the idea.
We were mistakenly REALLY well stocked weeks before the hysteria set in. Now she's home, he'll be home tomorrow, but both are stuck here for some time at least.
We'll see.