Slim Pickins

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The cupboards are looking pretty empty!  But with the addition of bell peppers, heavy cream, and zucchini, we were able to pull together some tasty meals last week.  Using peanut butter and peanuts pulled out of some trail mix (in my opinion, there are always too many peanuts in relation to everything else) we enjoyed chicken satay with peanut sauce.  The next night we had coconut flour pancakes, using peanut oil for the canola, and homemade vanilla-rum syrup.  I made brown-rice pasta with vodka cream sauce, thanks to the canned tomatoes and garlic in my pantry, and on Thursday I used our plain yogurt with spices to marinate chicken skewers that we ate with con tortillas.  On Friday we adventured out to Dang Crabs! for some good ol' cajun food.  What I love about Groupon is that they often encourage you to try things that you normally never would. For me, this was a crab boil.  Thankfully the owner of the restaurant came over and gave us an awesome tutorial on how to properly attack a crab.  If it hadn't been for him, I'm sure I would have ended up eating the gills and missing out on half the meat!

This week I've pulled together a few ideas for things that only require one or two pans, so that I can pack the rest up.  We'll be having lentil-crusted chicken with zucchini and rice tomorrow and I'm sure mac n' cheese will end up on the menu at some point.  It's been fun trying to use up the things that have been straining for daylight in the pantry.  If anyone has an easy idea for thai rice noodles, I would definitely appreciate it!

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