{"id":5777,"date":"2014-05-30T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2014-05-30T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T23:42:39","slug":"been-dieting-so-long-since-last-march-i-havent-really-cooked-in-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/been-dieting-so-long-since-last-march-i-havent-really-cooked-in-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Been dieting so long (since last March) I haven&#8217;t really cooked in forever&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I became inspired to do meatloaf, and discovered the tomatoes in the pantry expired in 2011. Now, usually stuff isn&#8217;t really bad until the can swells, but, y&#8217;know, why risk it? Those went out.<br \/>\nThe corn flakes were all gone.<br \/>\nThere were no veggies.<\/p>\n<p>I decided, well, pasta. Pasta would work as a binder. I had an egg. Also a binder. Spices, no problem. And I discovered unexpired spaghetti sauce. Voila! Tomato!<\/p>\n<p>So I stirred it up, dumped in a cup of dry penne pasta, and added a measure of water, in the theory, well, the pasta needed something to grow on.<\/p>\n<p>Baked at 350 for an hour and a half&#8230;covered in foil&#8212;worked like a charm. It wasn&#8217;t my best meat loaf ever: that would have had diced tomatoes, diced bell pepper, and sufficient chili sauce (I did have some, expiration 2013, well, close enough. \ud83d\ude09 So I used it.) And it would have had carrots and potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>But it was still good. Half of it will be Sunday dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Ramsey would be proud&#8212;at least of my ability to punt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I became inspired to do meatloaf, and discovered the tomatoes in the pantry expired in 2011. Now, usually stuff isn&#8217;t really bad until the can swells, but, y&#8217;know, why risk it? Those went out. The corn flakes were all gone. There were no veggies. I decided, well, pasta. Pasta would work as a binder. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}