This title sounds like a show on the Food Network. Actually, a fun COVID-safe cooking show would be to have three contestants make a dish using only the food in their house. All the dishes would have the same theme. I don’t know how it would be judged, but it would be fun to see people’s homes and maybe realize that your own pantry isn’t nearly as full as some.
A long time ago, on a public radio show called The Splendid Table, Lynne Rossetto Kasper would create a dish based on five ingredients from a caller’s fridge. It was an entertaining segment. Some of the callers had items I’d never heard of. I don’t think Lynne was ever stumped.
My pantry doesn’t have anything odd in it, just items that I don’t know what to do with. A while ago, I talked about the jar of lemon pie filling and how I enjoyed it just the way it was. Along with that jar, I had two jars of cherry pie filling. The cherry one wasn’t quite as good by itself, but I found two fun ways to enjoy it.
The first was to add a dollop of cherry pie filling to the top of a small bowl of chocolate pudding and spray whipped cream on top. Delicious!!!
Once the pudding was gone, I made a small bowl of just the pie filling and the whipped cream. That was good too. It didn’t take long to empty the two small jars. More items out of the pantry. Hooray!!!