Now, For Something completely different!

 We were always Monty Python fans back in the day—loved when they made this announcement!  Our ears perked up to learn what was “completely different”! 

I definitely don't have anything different, though!  Sorry!  It's the same old, same old.  Oh, we did have a winter event that forced us to stay indoors--that's unusual for us Southerners!  !Of course, if you are forced to stay indoors, you just WANT to get out!  This forced me to do some chores I haven't done in the past few weeks.  There was a quilt that needed to be bound--first, needed to cut binding and make it ready to sew on the quilt.  Thank goodness, the evenings will still be quite cool and the quilt will be a super cover to my legs as I sit stitching the binding! 

Deciding on dinner is first on the agenda--what will it be?  It seems when it’s cold weather, you want to cook more and eat more!  Decisions? Pizza and salad?  Cioppino?  Cottage pie?  Stuffed peppers?  OR I just might go with my first thought--"MustGo"!  There is plenty in refrig to make a good Mustgo.  The start of fresh baked bread is in the rising period--last week, I made an attempt at King Cake--  it was okay--we did eat it!  So couldn't be too bad.

Okay, back to recipe for Mustgo==actually, there is no recipe for Mustgo--Just take any leftover food from frig and repurpose it for another meal and hopefully, fingers crossed, you will not have any more leftovers!  I love this recipe--(Mustgovian)a fabulous name for a simple meal.

Having read the book, "Kitchen Front" by Jennifer Ryan--Oh the joy of cooking during WWII with rations.  These women were quite ingenious with their menus--today, we'd have a terrible time working with such shortages, 

Here is your wartime food rations for one adult for one week

• meat in value 2 lbs mincemeat (hamburger) or one lb steak
• 2 oz cheese
• 4 oz margarine
• 2 oz butter
• 1 pt milk
• 8 oz sugar
• 2 oz jam
• 2 oz loose leaf tea
• 1 fresh egg plus 1 pkg dried egg powder, making 12 eggs, every month
• 3 oz sweets or candy

Would we whine and complain?  Probably!  but, this book took place during the war and everyone had to make do. 

Some of the recipes in the book are very interesting and creative.  

Just try to make do with what's in your pantry and frig for a few days, without a trip to the grocery.  It's a challenge!  That is something completely different for sure!