They will tell you to put a pack of oil pastels in your starter pack at art college. You wonder why… for me they sat unloved except for some experimenting with life drawing and white spirits. Fast forward 20 years (yeah 20 years!) and I brought them on holidays. I hated them, liked them a bit better… then here.. I started to fall in love with my old cheap pack of oil pastels.
Was an #EcoArts effort to #UseItUp but in the end became a love affair. #MastoArt #IrishArt #Drimolegue #MastoDaoine

2 days to go on my #UseItUp experiment. Working from home means I can bake bread - this is the last of that buy nothing bread flour + the last of the hemp seeds, topped with canned herring in mustard sauce that I bought on a whim, and parsley from the garden.

I've ordered my grocery deliveries for the weekend (produce box + regular) and forcing some creative cooking has been good, but I'm really looking forward to not having to think as much about what I'm gonna eat.

#UseItUp food prep for this week:

- barley bread
- nettle toum
- hummus
- chop veg into sticks
- overnight oats w/ dried jujubes
- hard-boiled eggs
- lilac jello w/ frozen blueberries

Pasta w/ kale, mushrooms & beans for dinner tonight maybe. If we can keep ourselves from devouring the bread + toum.

I'm a bachelor for the week, my partner is taking off to be with his dad in the hospital.

I think that means I make squash soup and eat it all week. With daylily bulbs, cheez powder, and moth beans (#UseItUp). Sardine salad for lunches? I didn't end up making that last week.

More breakfast cookies, no caffeine this time.

I want a dessert, if I'm not too tired after the rest of it. Preserved lemon bars sound amazing, with a less fussy crust tho. https://www.teaandfog.com/home/2018/4/preserved-lemon-bars

#UseItUp I like the sound of cookies

Wonder if I can get away with using a load of icing sugar instead of regular sugar?!

#UseItUp ideas for things to do with dried fruit? (raisins, cranberries) That aren't necessarily cake?

I'm trying to list out possible recipes for all my hoarded food backlog this month, here are the ingredients I'm having the most trouble with. Help/ideas?

- Birch flowers (in an 8oz frozen block)
- 1/2 bottle of corn syrup
- Nori
- Umesu flavored with yarrow
- Cheez powder that is not flavorful, really more starchy filler than cheese. I have A LOT of this.

#UseItUp

This weekend's #UseItUp food prep goals:

- Shrimp stir-fry with noodles and that can of "Thai noodle sauce" for dinner tonight
- Matcha-coconut breakfast cookies
- Nettle quiche
- Sardine salad with nettle pesto
- Ovaltine brownies

Tonight's #UseItUp prep:

- Barley flour muffins with dried jujubes, apple molasses, and hemp seeds. The jujubes were dried with the pits still in them, ugh what a hassle, I regret this purchase.

- Corn & black bean salad. It's just the corn, beans, and onion in dressing right now so it should stay good in the fridge until midweek when the savory pie leftovers are gone.

- Kale, sweet potato & black bean burritos.

From National Pie Day (Jan 23) to Nerd Pi Day (Mar 14) I'm going to do a #NoBuy grocery / #UseItUp pantry challenge. Does anyone want to join me?

I just took inventory of my freezer and in addition to a ton of perfectly good food, there was soup from 2018, yikes.

@mcmoots It might! Even if it's just one or two meals/week for some of us, a #UseItUp challenge could be good. (I will be doing further PhD-related travel at some stage which complicates things somewhat.)