White Trash Iron Chef

In preparing to leave Gainesville for the holidays I focused my last week on cleaning out my refrigerator. I decided to transform the chore into a game. The goal was simple; to see if I could prepare all of my perishables, leaving a refrigerator only of condiments and unfinished beers. The rules were: 1. I had to create only one dish each day, 2. I could buy no additional food, and 3. I had to use EVERYTHING. I coined the concept "White Trash Iron Chef".

I won't bore you with the details of the first six days, for they were reasonable. As I made my way through the refrigerator eating all the good food (aided by the tomato-basil recipe from http://thehungryblogger.blogspot.com, sub'd walnuts), I gradually concentrated all things bad. Today, day 7, was the most evil challenge. At 7 AM I stood in my kitchen, rolling sushi seaweed and sticky rice around sweet potatoes, smoked salmon, dill and cream cheese. There's a fine line between su-shi and su-shit, and this time it didn't turn out bad!

I made an array of sushi fit for a toilet. There was creamed-corn, butter, cucumber sushi, and garlic, mozarella, A1, lettuce sushi (that was ok). Peanut butter and jelly sushi was a little gnarly, but the sun-dried tomato, basil, mozzarella sushi was good too, but not worth repeating.

Waste not, want not and I want not. I accomplished my feat, not a crumb left behind. Necessity is the mother of invention and hunger ain't a bad cook!