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Do not throw anything away until you have product maximized
it and then go for donations and recycling.
Let's talk about some product maximazation, done at all the
finest of restraunts.
First, slow roasting or cooking meats means less shrinkage
and yeilds a lot more meat.
Slow cook at 250 degrees F and turn up last 3-5 miutes at
500 degrees F to brown.
I have personally rendered the cheapest beef cuts very
tender this way, they taste like the spendy.
I learned this from cooks illustrated years ago.
Their method calls for putting red meat on a wire rack, when
you buy it, and letting it set there to age for several
days in the fridge
uncovered,..it turns a darker color..then you cook or freeze
it.
when ready to cook, you slow roast it.
It is so very tender and yeilds so much more meat. I often
have to
forgo the aging due to lack of space and /or time.
Deglaze the drippings and make into gravy, sauces or save
for soups,stocks etc. Yorkshire pudding from the beef.
If you have a beef processed or deer etc.
Have them save all the fats to make soaps and lard.
If you do not make soap yourself find some one who does and
offer to trade the fat for some finshed soap.
Have the butcher save all the bones and simmer with onion
only to make stocks.
Make sure the hides are removed in such a way as to be abel
to be tanned.
Trade this service if you like.
If the animal has horns use them to make clever racks to
hang things from or deco pieces.
Do not waste any part of the animal.
when cooking sasuages , save the water and grease to flavor
soups,casseroles, beans, etc.
I had bought lingusta sasuage for a dollor off the sale
price; so it
came to under a dollar a pound ,[ which is an excellent
price in our area ].
There was 6 big links as it was just under 1 3/4 pounds.
The went into the freezer a few months ago.
They were taken out and defrosted a few days ago and I had
wanted
some prepared, and ready to go for pizza topping.
These are butcher shop made and utterly delcious.
I put them in my heavy duty cast aluminum stick free
skillet, and let
them lighly brown on both side and then covered with water
brought to
a boil and then reduced heat and simmered until throughly
cooked.
Mean while I took a jar of small white beans , put them in
a large
pot and covered with water. This was brought to a boil , in
a covered
pan, and boiled for 2 minutes. The heat was immediately
turned off and
the covered pot remained on stove for 2 hours.
Next, the water was drained off into a large bowl.This water
was let
to cool and used on my plants.
You cannot use this water for food as it is filled with an
enzyme that
causes gas in humans.
Next cover the beans with water and put in a chopped onion
and some
cumin, and garlic.
This was brought to a boil ,in the large covered pot and
then reduced
to low heat and simmered until beans were tender but firm.
Mushy overcooked beans are horrible.
Once done added were ; rice , [ 29 cents a pound] bell
peppers [20
for a dollar],corn [ 40 cents a pound], 3 pounds of frozen
tomatoes[
30 cents a pound] two of the chopped up ligusta sasuages , a
bit of
medium salsa to taste. The water from cooking the sasuages
along with
the little bit of red colored fatty oil ,about 2-3 teaspoons
[ all
there was] was added to the pot and covered with water....I
divided
this among two 5 quart dutch ovens and filled with water;
brought to a
boil and then reduced to a simmer until rice is cooked.
It is out of this world good.
Not too spicy just enough to be intersting and a very
colorful soup.
The beans and rice make a complete protein and this is a
very, very
low fat high fiber tasty meal.
Here is the tally on this soup..sasuage two links... 58
cents, rice 20
cents, beans 30 cents, tomatoes, 90 cents, bell pepper 5
cents, onion
10 cents, salsa about 10 cents, corn 40 cents cumin under 1
cent.
This soup made 10 hearty quarts for about $2.64 or 26.4
cents a
quart ,6.6 cents a 8 ounce cup.
Will be eaten with ,at different meals,homemade corn bread,
native
indian fry bread and home made tortillas, to vary the eating
experience
All ages will love this.
It meets all the requirements for an excellent dish.
I. tasty and flavorful no extreme taste.
2.appeals to all ages.
3. very frugal
4.complete protein
5. grain
6.veggie
7.low fat
8. high fiber
9. filling
10 product maximized.
The rest of the sasuages were thinly sliced or chopped and
frozen for
pizza toppings and other dishes.
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Do not throw away cans,
All cans can be reused to save money.
If you are doing the suggestions to make this list work for
you ,you
will no longer be buying canned soups.
Things to use cans for :
line with plastic bags and use to freeze in.
you can make tin art objects, candle holder, lumineries,wrap
cookie
dough in rolls and free in small cans for later use.
Decorate and make pen, pencil,and object holders. I use
gallon cans to
keep my kitchen untensils in.
I use them to line with plastic bags and freeze soups in.
I am now doing most of my soups in plastic wrap lined loaf
pans and
once frozen stacking.This is a great spcae saver. Once
frozen I put
them in freezer or bread bags to prevent freezer burn.
you can amke furnitue from coffee and gallon cans that you
would not
ever guess what the base was. It is really impressive.
On a home decorating show they had a person who had made
columns from
them wrapped in corrugated cardboard and then decroated for
stands,
covered some with roman and greek pillar wallpaper for the
ceilng high
columns. The used various sized cans to make coffee tables
and stands.
.Again all covered /and or painted.
at the very least recycle you cans at the dump or recylers.
We can
just put ours out with the trash on pick up days. They must
have
labels removed and can rinsed and flatten.
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You can use the lables from cans to decorated a lot of
things from
walls, notebooks, tins, gift boxes, borders,cupboards etc.
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The bags from buyin bulk sizes like 25 pound etc,make great
poster
when cut and hung, wrapping paper for food gifts.crafts etc.
I am hanging my bob's red mill and morton salt up.
At the very least the make sacks for reclying paper,shred
for basket
filler.
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