For anyone who has a loose tea hoard, how do you store/organize it? I recently realized that I am approaching tea hoarding status, and it was making a mess, since it's mostly loose tea in the original bulk bags. I move most of them over to 12oz jelly jars, which is better, and they're more front-and-center now, so hopefully I'll use them. I went a little cray when I got a really good deal on gunpowder matcha about a year ago, and have a ton of it. Perhaps I need to commit to doing matcha smoothies and forgoing coffee once the weather warms up.
Today's dinner did well on the food stash: 1.5 c. red lentils cooked into a dahl with a quart jar of tomatoes, lamb curry using ground lamb and a can of coconut milk I stocked up on a few months ago. Used two of the elderly onions, a cup of pork stock from the freezer, and the remaining frozen garlic cubes, as well as two packages of riced cauliflower from last spring's harvest. I've been avoiding the red lentils lately because they fall apart so readily when cooked, but the ended up rather thick this time and I remarked that they were like Indian refried beans, which seemed better than a runny dahl with no texture. Also used up a jar of apricot chutney between the cauli-rice and the curry.
After dinner a brownie recipe showed up on my Facebook feed and inspired me to make brownies to bring to work, but I don't keep baker's chocolate around. A quick Google got me a cocoa powder brownie recipe, so I whipped that up using some of the frozen cherries from my tree, and walnuts that have been hanging around for a while.
Breakfasts this week will be homemade yogurt with some chia seeds I'm trying to finish, and fig jam I canned in 2014.
My pantry cupboard now has enough space that I was able to move all my boozy infusions and fermies from under the sink. Using those up is a rather scary prospect. I have peaches in vodka, cherry jump, cherries in vodka, rum raisins, josta berries in pisco, as well as some fire cider, a gallon of homemade apple cider vinegar, and a jar of garlic in honey.