Re: [CH] car foods
Tara Deen (tara@es.usyd.edu.au)
Fri, 25 May 2001 09:15:46 +1000
Hi Chad,
I'm really impressed by someone who can teach a marching band and go
storm chasing!
After several years of living outside a major city (Sydney) and spending
up to 30 hours commuting each week (and no, I don't do anywhere near
that any more) I learnt the trick of cooking up food that can be made on
the weekend and grabbed on the run during the week. I also make a lot of
this stuff for the times I'm working out in the field from dawn to dusk
and want a *lot* of food because I'm using up so much energy. Here are a
few of the highlights:
Pasties: Cut sheets of puff pastry into circles about the size of a
bread and butter plate. Place any stew-like filling (hubbie's favourite
is habanero beef bourgignon, mine is spiced potato and veg) into the
pastries, folding to make a half-circle. Bake these until the pastry is
golden, then when they're cool, wrap each individually and pop in the
freezer. Good eaten cold or hot, and they make one easy meal each.
Most home-made cakes can be cut into slices and frozen, for snacks. The
moister cakes, such as banana, carrot or chocolate, do well here. One
cake will last one person a week or two. You could also try brownies.
Risa's choc chipotle brownies would give you a great mid-afternoon buzz!
Pasta, pre-made and frozen in recycled takeaway containers makes an easy
meal, and if you can manage to learn to enjoy them at room temp, no
microwave is necessary.
Lately I've been bringing in portions of frozen minestrone to work,
nuking it in a cup, and eating it with foccacia (homemade sourdough
foccacia...yum!). I dip the foccacia into the soup. That's a good
warming meal.
Rice dishes like nasi goreng freeze and reheat well, so long as they
don't have seafood in them.
As for sandwiches, how about a baguette and a bit of antipasto? Toss in
some tapenade and you have a great meal. Guess you'd want to pass on the
red wine if you're storm chasing, though :-)
I can supply recipes for all of these things as they're stuff I make at
least once a fortnight, although never exactly the same twice. Rather
than clog up the list, I can drop you a private email if you'd like.
Cheers,
Tara