welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen and another edition of stuff in
our pantry the the pandemic Edition which so still March March 2020 we're
still in sort of a shutdown they've changed the language from we're gonna
have to go through this for weeks - they're now sort of floating the idea of
months no clue how this is how long this is gonna last or how it's gonna turn out
so since we're not going to the grocery store except just to get you know the
absolute necessities and I'm not gonna go to the grocery store again until we
run out of milk to me that's an absolute necessity I'm
making stuff that's just in my pantry and today I thought oh let's do a tuna
casserole except I didn't have any pasta so I had to make some pasta and fresh
pasta isn't ideal for this dish but you do what you got to do and then I went to
the cupboard and I realized I didn't have any tuna so what I actually have
are cans of Turkey I purchased these about a year ago I usually go into the
grocery store and grab three or four cans of tuna throw it into the grocery
cart bring it home I leave it in the pantry because I really like to have you
know a tuna sandwich every once in a while for lunch and one day not long
after that I grabbed it what I thought was a can of tuna and it turned out to
be a can of seasoned turkey breast and I didn't really enjoy the sandwich so I
put them back into the cupboard and I said I'll leave them eventually now now
is that eventuality so into this pan this is a cast-iron enameled cast iron
preserve I put in diced onion and a couple of ribs of celery that I've diced
up celery was at the end of its life and needed to be used so hopefully everybody
has an onion in their fridge or a bag of onions at least use whatever vegetables
you have chopped up broccoli would be really good in this maybe even
cauliflower a whole bunch of different things that
you could put in here so I don't want to really brown it too much I just want to
sort of soften it off and you just keep jumping out don't they and I also had a
couple of mushrooms leftover from pizza we made about a week ago I want to throw
those in too and we'll see what happens so I'm just gonna sweat these down okay
this is looking good now in goes some flour and we just stir this around to
coat everything with it now next in is some chicken stock I've got a box of
emergency chicken stock if you have your own homemade chicken stock and either in
the freezer or you can it that would be great if you don't have chicken stock
you could use vegetable stock you could use water if at this point what you have
is water then use water you're not gonna lose a whole lot of flavor you lose some
but I mean I don't know that it's a big deal and we're also we're in special
circumstances right now so I think that would be fine in goes the chicken stock
and stir it in a little bit at a time don't don't put it in too quickly and at
some point you want to switch it to a whisk all the stock is mixed in next in
is some milk so we need about a cup and a half of milk and I know that a lot of
people laugh at the bagged milk or get freaked out by the milk in bags when I
was a little kid because of where we lived my parents would often buy a bunch
of bags of milk and freeze them and because we lived someplace during the
summer times anyway we lived in a place where it was difficult to get to the
grocery store we would pull frozen bags of milk out and let them thaw in the
sink and then put them in and we would have milk for a much longer time we
didn't have to go to the grocery store and I got to tell you I hated that but
today I kind of wish I had some bags of milk in the freezer
kind of living in that time so I've got all the milk in this is uh this is the
point where you want to put in some salt and pepper and give it a taste and see
where you are on seasoning we also want to bring this up to a boil and stir it
constantly as it comes up to a boil and then turn it down and let it simmer
until it starts to thicken the sauce is thickening up nicely so trying to deal
with the pasta this is fresh homemade pasta like I said not ideal but it's in
its in long threads so I'm gonna cut it into something a little easier to manage
on the plate so here's my thought process thinking out loud cooking
without a net I haven't had a chance to try this recipe yet I know that fresh
pasta cooks a lot faster than dry pasta I know that fresh pasta is made
differently than dry pasta in terms of ingredients and how its put together
I've got a pot of salted boiling water on the go normally I would dunk this in
and boil it for maybe a minute or two and then put it into the sauce because
you want your pasta finish cooking in this sauce I'm kind of feeling like I
could just toss it in without putting it into the boiling water and that it would
cook enough in the sauce and I'm torn on that I really don't know what to do I
think I'm gonna put it in the boiling water just for a second maybe 30 seconds
40 seconds just to cook it a little bit and then we're gonna put it into the
sauce and stir it around just so it doesn't stick together and that's it
really just a dunk just enough to set the noodles okay they look really good
now noodles into the sauce turkey into the sauce as well kind of what this is
shredded I don't remember what it was when I that's chunk so I'm just gonna
run a fork through the can just to shred it okay
turkey in what do you have is tuna put your tuna in I've already added salt and
pepper there are lots of other spices and flavorings that you could add to
this because I put turkey in I'm I'm gonna put it in a little bit of poultry
seasoning not too much just a little bit give it just a little bit of that turkey
flavor now we stir this all together so yes I am that guy that has panko in the
cupboard so I'm gonna put panko on you could put on any kind of breadcrumb I
looked through recipe books from the 1930s Depression era recipe books and
most of them for this type of dish said to put on bread crumbs crushed up
saltine crackers or soda biscuits a lot of them even said to put on crushed up
potato chips there are a couple of recipes where you made this in a pot and
then you put it into a baking dish and the recommendation on one was that you
would grease the inside of the baking dish with butter and then put crushed up
potato chips inside and sort of dust the inside so that it's a full crust around
the outside with potato chips and then put potato chips on top so I know a lot
of you will have potato chips in your house because I saw you leaving the
grocery store with basket loads of them this is going to go into a preheated
oven now and it's going to cook for about 20-25 minutes
hey Jules hey Glenn hey friends like it uh yeah utensil compass all right fork
or spoon um let's try fork let's try fork couple Forks there geez
okay here it is pretty good it's a bit like it it wrote trying to think of what
it reminds me of other than Turkey yes so the the the poultry seasoning that I
put in it I didn't put much in at all just a little bit of poultry seasoning
really signals turkey yeah there's like post-thanksgiving soup yeah yeah I mean
that's got that post-thanksgiving soup cuz yeah add the celery and all those
other flavors and it's got all of those flavors to it I was um I was a little
worried about using the fresh noodles but they held up really nicely I thought
that they could have been a little too delicate rather than the noble macaroni
mm-hmm hey though who would have known okay we do this morning I know I'm
trying to get rid of these cans of Turkey for about a year it's taking
global pandemic to get me there I'm really enjoying this and I'm thinking
that you know it might be something that shows up even outside of the pandemic ok
don't ok now just let you know that this is the base for a lot of things right
yeah like many of the things we've done so far
oh for a change peas I could have put in peace and cauliflower
yeah and broccoli and vegetables galore I'll put mine as an aside later but I
just without epiphany of we brought the
vegetables yeah um any flavor any meat right it's a base right so if you want
tuna canned salmon can't salmon would go really well on this my mom used to make
cream salmon on toast sorry Julie doesn't really like I do not like
I like Sam on toast Oh No but salmon in this would
go really well you changed the spicing a little bit when you leave out what in
Hamburg yeah it is the basics of a noodle casserole yeah you know yeah you
could I mean it's a method it's not a recipe it's a check your cupboard what
have you got put it in thanks for stopping by stay safe stay healthy see
you again soon
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