Posted on 10/23/2013 2:44:48 PM PDT by Kartographer
Funny you should mention that, because as I was leaving Church last night someone pasted me and I knew right away that they were a smoker.
Interesting...
Raises another scenario....when the smokes have all been looted, anyone reeking of cigarette smoke could be targeted simply for the fact that they might have more cigarettes stashed...
Another way to cook with minimal odor is to use a thermos.
http://theboatgalley.com/thermos-cooking/
I hope there are more like you. My plans rely upon good people or there will never been any stability. People exchanging labor, skills, goods and ability are required to reestablish society.
That’s true. I have a tendency to forget about the thermos.LOL
LOL! We bought one, but God alone knows where it is! But if we need it we got it!
Hey, I just tried out the thermos. I had a few leftovers. A little bit of canned chili, stewed tomatoes. So I put boiling water in the thermos. Heated the leftovers a bit.
Poured out the boiling water to reheat it. Put some macaroni, salt, pepper, paprika, parsley flakes in the thermos, added the chili and tomato leftovers, poured the boilinb water in on top.
Screwed on the lid, gave it a shake. Wrapped a towel around it to help hold in the heat. Waited about 30 minutes. It was pretty darn good. Hamburger helper move over- this is faster, tastes better, uses less fuel, and I made just the amount I needed.
I really didn’t think it would cook the noodles, but it did.
WOW! Thanks for the thermos recipe alert! That sounds great!
I don’t use the thermos, as previously noted, but every morning I put into my cereal bowl some combination of the following, [with calorie designations]:
1 tbsp. rolled oats 25 cal
1/2 tbsp. chia seeds 30 cal
2 tbsp. rolled barley 20 cal
1 Tbsp. oat or wheat bran 15 cal
1 tsp. bee pollen 20 cal
1 tbsp. ground flax 30 cal
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TOTAL CALORIE COUNT FOR MIX 140 cal
Most days I will add a tbsp. (30cal) of coconut flour for the extra protein and medium chain triglycerides. [http://coconutketones.com/] Also a tsp. of coconut oil (30 cal)for the medium chain triglycerides.
I flavor it up with stevia, a little bit of vegesal, and cinnamon and add a 1/4 of a banana diced (approx. 25 cal).
Over this I will pour boiling water, stir, and cover with a saucer. About 15 minutes later, the chia and other grains have taken in the water and expanded and is hot and ready to eat.
For variety, I will use in addition or substitute the following ingredients:
rolled quinoa 1 tbsp. = 30 cal
rolled spelt 1 tbsp. = 20 cal
rolled rye [I’ve lost my piece of paper with that cal count
I think it is in the 25-30 cal range per tbsp.]
I haven’t done it yet, but recently I was able to obtain a grain flaker and I have plans to try rolling my amaranth seed and see how that works in my cereal mix.
All of this would work fine in a thermos as well, but it also works surprisingly well just in a bowl with the boiling water!
I suspect if I wanted to cook the Scottish/steel cut oat meal, that would require the thermos.
I have been studying your recipe and was hoping you could clarify something for me:
You state, “Hey, I just tried out the thermos. I had a few leftovers. A little bit of canned chili, stewed tomatoes. So I put boiling water in the thermos. Heated the leftovers a bit.
Poured out the boiling water to reheat it.”
What I’m trying to visualize is the sequence of events here. You put your chili,maters into the thermos, and put in a bit of boiling water. Then you “pour out the ‘boiling water’ - the contents(?) to reheat it?” Not understanding why that happens.
Thanks. I’m sure it will be obvious to me after you help me with my “duh” affliction!
Okay, I can see the confusion. First you put boiling water into the thermos to make it hot. Otherwise there would be an immediate decrease in temp when you fill it.
While thermos is heating up, you can heat up the leftovers from the frig.
Next you pour the water out of the thermos and reheat to boiling while you put the hot leftovers into the theremos.
Then you add the dry uncooked macaroni, and spices.
Then you pour on the boiling water. Put on the lid. My thermos was a cheapo from the kid’s old lunch box. So I wrapped it in a towel to help with the insulation.
I neglected to time it, but I think it was about 30 minutes. I used the microwave for all the heating. I was very suprised that the macaroni cooked that well, I really thought it would be a starchy mess.
You will need less water than it shows on the package.
I am going to hunt up some more of our thermos. I am thinking that I might try cooking some stuff like oatmeal and grains overnight, somehow I just don’t cook in the AM.
It would be great to just get up, drink coffee and eat breakfast-kinda like room service. I am a slow starter, and will just micro wave an egg, or eat a bowl of cold cereal.
This is great with respect to the number of dishes too. No pots and pans. LOL
I see now that in your system you heat up the left overs in a microwave, and not in the thermos.
When you say “I used a microwave for all the heating,” you are referring to the heating of the left overs and the boiling water? Sorry for my density. I just want to make sure I understand perfectly. Thanks for the clarification.
Putting the breakfast cereal ingredients into the thermos and letting it sit overnight would probably work. I’ve been surprised at how quickly my cereal is finished just by pouring water over it and letting it sit while I fix my eggs. I will spend an hour once every couple of weeks dishing up the tablespoons of ingredients into baggies so I can grab them easily for instant breakfast. [I’m not quickly functional in the mornings either! LOL!]
Yes, I believe you have it correctly now. See the leftovers were cold in the frigerator, and I thought that the macaroni would need all the heat it could get. So I zapped the leftovers till they were lukewarm at least.
Some time next week, I may try a tuna noodle casserole in thermos, just to see what I can come up with. Always looking for creative ways to use pantry shelf stable items, and save electricity.LOl
This is why you need to stock trapping scent, very carefully spray a tiny bit of that around your place and no one will smell your cooking odors.
I think the true Obamabots will keep on believing until they are dead...
Thanks so much! I’m glad I understand now! Please ping me to your further experiments with it!
Will do. I wonder if malt o meal will work. I love malt o meal but hate to make it, cause if you don’t keep stirring it will lump up.
I’ll bet it would be lumpy in the thermos too if you didn’t shake it. I’d rather shake than stir though.LOL
Oh, yeh, I was thinking: what about a poached egg?
OMG! I bet that would work very well! Can’t see why not! If you like them hard, no problem, but otherwise, you would need to time it pretty carefully to still get the runny yellow of the 3min egg. (I do like my yellows runny and my whites firm!)
Just located this:
“...Alas, alack! Poaching eggs in a dorm room sink is functionally impossible, but there is a simple way to poach eggs in an ordinary thermos. Simply prepare the egg in plastic wrap as described above and place inside of a standard size thermos. Just pour boiling water into the thermos and screw on the lid. Allow the egg to cook until the desired level of doneness is reached—depending on the starting temperature of the water and the actual size of the thermos, cooking time may vary from eight to 12 minutes. Some experimentation may be necessary in order to ensure that the egg ball cooks all the way through...”
http://bwog.com/2010/10/07/the-odyssey-poaching-an-egg-in-wien/
LOL! about the shaken not stirred! (You could call them your “James Bond” maltOmeal! LOL!)
I might have to try that at work sometime.
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