20. What's in your freezer right now? (Bonus: any other with an interesting answer that no one's asked yet)
bonus question first, because i take any opportunity to talk about food at length
41 - What's the oldest thing you own?
huh. i was going to say "my grandfather's sword", because that's the cool answer, but i guess it's actually my house, which is both a boring and ship of theseus answer. large portions of this place have been ripped out and put back over its 105 years of existing.
but as for objects that i can carry around, probably the sword, from the 40s.
20 - oh boy! i just cleaned out the freezer two weeks, and it is still 100% full! it's very wide, tall, and shallow; it's got a deep drawer, a very shallow shelf, and one reasonable drawer.
deep drawer:
10 bagels (from the last two weeks)
8 tahini rolls (last night, recipe handed to me by @adiantum-sporophyte)
1 spare bagel, shichimi togarashi (last fucking december)
8 dinner rolls (in the last month; i like them with The Beans)
500g of sourdough bread (in the last month)
bags of corn, peas, raspberries, blueberries, and 6tbsp or so tomato paste
a few ounces of frozen french fries
1 bag of vegan nuggets that i haven't tried yet
1 bag of not-chicken strips
2 bags of breaded not-chicken filets, like for sandwiches
2 bags of not-burgers
the bagels come from partner's favorite bagelry (?). we eat bagels for breakfast 4-5 days a week, so we get 12 bageldays of bagels every 2-3 weeks.
i love fake meat so much. people are out there jerking off, "i feel we should celebrate vegetables for what they are, and not try to make them into what they aren't". poppycock! burger is good. nugget is good. vegetable qua vegetable is also good. they're both good! eat both! one needs micronutrients and big hunks of protein!
the tahini rolls are basically extra flavorful dinner rolls. the flavor is a little hard to pair with, though. i have some stews in mind to try them with.
the sourdough is the leftovers of a huuuuuuuge miche i bought at nearby bakery because i went right at close and it was all they had left. i fucked up and froze it in 3 chunks, instead of slicing before freezing; when i tried to slice up one of the chunks, it was a huge mess. i might turn the rest into ribollita, now that i think about it.
partner had the idea that we'd 3d print some dividers, so that the bagels wouldn't collapse into the frozen vegetables, and the faux meats wouldn't collapse, so we got a profiling tool... and we haven't made the dividers yet. eventually!
shallow shelf:
6 frozen mulberry scones on a quarter-sheet pan
1 basket of frozen mulberries
mashed mulberry to use in lemonade (as suggested by @tinyyellowflowers-blog), occupying one of my eighth-sheet pans
frozen blackberries, occupying another quarter-sheet pan
a deli container completely full of apricot pits
the mulberry scones smelled really weird when i cooked the first two... but they tasted fine. mild; not a fantastic use of mulberry imo. the frozen ones are like ice cream. i'm supposed to bake with the blackberries, and i have been -- made these peanut butter bars, and then merged it with some jam bars; the second one was like the best pb&j i've ever eaten.
the apricot pit bucket is for infusing into alcohol. slaw, a doctor, was over last night, and i casually asked how much cyanide is okay to eat. she made a frowny face at me. then i said it was apricot pits and she was like "that's fine".
i really really need to either reclaim those baking sheets or get more; i use them more for organization than for baking, though.
reasonable drawer:
1 box of "plant based breakfast patties"
1 box of folded fake eggs
1 box of fake poached eggs
3 boxes of tofu skins (help)
8 dinner rolls (in the last month)
1 miniloaf of baharat banana bread (march?)
4oz of pepita dukkah (december)
8oz of flaxseeds (ancient)
6 little containers of apple butter (from a year ago)
1/3 pint of ice cream (a month or two)
2 little containers of a very condensed tomato-shallot sauce (possibly 2 years old)
1 jar of yeast (18 months)
uhhhh, ice
the dinner rolls are parker house rolls, but i don't actually like the parker house shape (too much hassle); i just do them as miniboules. they freeze and reheat perfectly. if i get another 9x13 i could do double batches, and maybe i will.
every now and then we eat bagel sands for breakfast, with bagels (real), egg (fake), sausage (fake), cheese (fake), and i love it. they're so good.
no idea what to do with the tofu skins; i've never used yuba before, and i haven't had hot pot either.
the ice is impossible to get out of the ice bucket, due to how shallowly the freezer drawer extends. for fashion reasons, there's no in-door ice or water dispenser.
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