cold meat sandwiches
Latest freegan find: 2 kg pickled pork, still cold from the chiller - looks like cold meat sandwiches for the next two weeks!
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molded liver recipie
A recent freeganing trip netted a 350grm tub of (still chilled) chicken livers. A while ago while trash trawling I found a well-used copy of Leah W. Leonard's 1951 book of "Jewish Cookery" on p. 301 is the recipie for molded chicken liver ( a firm favourite with my Jewish friends): "Combine broiled chicken livers,hard cooked eggs and greben. Run through food chopper, season to taste with salt, pepper, celery salt or garlic salt, add chicken or goose fat, or salad oil. Use as a canape spread.Top with tiny bits of pimento or green pepper, minced parsley or water cress, or stuffed olive. Or press into a well-greased mold. Unmold on shredded greens and garnish." OR on p. 382 Leah gives the recipie for "Chopped Liver and Peanut Butter"!: "Two parts chopped liver to 1 part peanut butter makes a delicious spread".
salad days
A friend has groceries delivered weekly from the supermarket. When the delivery arrives, last week's veges get thrown away. We brought these home last night: mushrooms, apricots, an avocado, a pack of celery, & some spring onions.
scrambled eggs for 2 weeks
A quick dive into a local dumpster provided me & extended family with the best part of a tray of eggs - we will have them scrambled, fried, poached, & boiled for a couple of weeks....
gone fishin'
This is farmed salmon, but will still make a delicious addition to pasta dishes or my favourite green curry noodle soups. Tossed into the trash last night, they were still cool from the chiller.
introduction
An awful lot of stuff ends up in the landfill - a result of our "throw-away" society mentality. Saatchi and Saatchi have branded New Zealand as "100% Pure" - yeah, right. This is just some b/s dreamed up by CEO Kevin Roberts - this is the man who, by his own admission, often buys "Head & Shoulders Shampoo" - in spite of the fact that he has no hair. I cannot help but wonder if similar reasoning compels him to buy "Tampax" also? Anyhow, join me on my adventures in the trash, as I haul out stuff to recycle, make into art, give away, and eat - yes eat. Some 30% of the food grown in this "clean green" paradise goes to waste, from supermarket shelf to dumpster. This in a country where people are going hungry and children are suffering illness caused by malnutrition through poverty and bad eating habits (aka McDonalds et al). To kick things off, here's some tucker I found last night: 1.4kg bacon & 6 eggs - all still fresh...