Canned Meat Ideas

Sometimes an RVer just doesn’t feel like doing a lot of cooking. So, lately, some RV friends have been discussing using canned meat.

When I was traveling solo in my van I needed weight in the right front corner to make up for having no passenger. So I put a bag of tools and a bin of canned goods there to help balance my vehicle’s load.

Here’s some of my ideas and experiences from carry that bin of canned food.

Stir together equal amounts of mayonnaise and sour cream. Add generous amounts of onion powder and dill weed. Drain and stir in a can of baby shrimp. Add part of a bag of broccoli slaw. Serve.

In a 2-cup microwave-safe bowl lightly beat an egg with some seasonings. Drain a can of salmon and stir into egg. Microwave 3 minutes. Food will be pulling away from edges of bowl but will be damp in the middle Let it set until it firms up. This is good with cranberry sauce and a green salad.

Microwave a baking potato. Top with butter and/or sour cream. Drain and add a can of tuna. Add seasonings, as desired. Serve with fruit.

Stir together equal amounts of mayonnaise and pickle relish. Add drained chicken or tuna or ham. Serve on crackers with veggie sticks alongside.

Buy individual cups of instant mashed potatoes. Cook potatoes then stir in any canned meat and some Ranch dressing. Serve with fruit.

My mother’s uncle invented this one when he was home alone. Pour a can of green beans into a skillet over medium heat. Open a can of Vienna sausages and slice them onto the green beans. Cook until heated through. Drain and add seasonings. Break an egg or two onto it and stir until egg is scrambled. Serve.

I hope these ideas will give you a place to start making up your own combinations.

TTYL,

Linda

Happy Halloween?

We don’t usually get snow this early in the season.

Except in 1991. That was the year of the great halloween blizzard.

We had so much snow we could not get out of our garage.

I called my boss and told him our alley hadn’t been plowed so I couldn’t drive to work. But I could walk to the cross street that had been plowed if he wanted to come pick me up. He said his car was in the only clear spot in the whole lot so he wasn’t moving it.

In both cases, I got to stay home.

TTYL,

Linda

Closet Stash

Yesterday I decide to dust inside Dave’s closet.

I couldn’t believe all the things we had stashed in there.

From top left: box for current modem containing tools related to it, extra throw pillows, an empty storage container, an old printer & power cube that work but we no longer use, empty boxes for memory cards Dave thought he might send back and phones for which he thought we might need proof of purchase, a shopping bag we thought we might reuse, a huge comforter for a bed we no longer own, and another empty box for Dave’s current laptop.

Lower shelf

On a lower shelf we had: an empty box for headphones that reside elsewhere, a small pillow no one uses, an interesting storage bag we might find a use for someday. a yellow folding campstool that is no longer steady but Dave thinks he might still use, a cooler bag we do occasionally use, blue bags that will never get mended, a green carry bag we were gifted seven years ago we have never used, and a laptop desk Dave decided he didn’t like.

Plus, hiding under Dave’s shirts, old shoes he never wears, a set of blue cables for something, and a blueprint of a railroad town we used to model. To say nothing of the shirts hanging in there that he never wears, either.

I’m pretty sure everything in there except the cooler bag and, maybe, those blue cables could go away and we would never miss them. We’ll tackle those items together tomorrow and see where we wind up.

The next day: The shelves now hold the modem box, the cooler bag, the yellow stool, and the empty laptop box. The blue cables (ethernet) got moved to join the rest of the electronics stuff. The green carry bag got moved to Dave’s stuff to become his laptop carrying bag. One pair of walking shoes stayed in hopes of Dave being able to start walking again.

Everything else either got trashed or donated.

OK, will be donated; probably tomorrow.

Except, maybe, the excess shirts. Dave crashed before he got to them so, unless that happens before the donation run, they will stay awhile yet.

Still that’s much better than it was.

TTYL,

Linda