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Russet tried to be helpful last week :-)
Jan. 3rd, 2022 07:11 pmThursday, the day we got back from Phoenix, I went down for grocery shopping to make tacos for New Year's Eve. Also to get lots of stuff for making a double-batch of gazpacho for my lunch for the week, slightly shortened though it may be as we were closed today.
When I got home, I was desperate to run off to the bathroom, and Russet helpfully got the rest of the stuff out of my car.
Among the things purchased were two light appliance extension cords and two cans of whole peeled tomatoes for the gazpacho. And off and on since Thursday, I kept wondering where the extension cords were because I wanted to put one into use. It wasn't critical, but still....
Today is the first day that I needed to go anywhere in my car since Thursday (last night we took the dogs down since they're not to fond of going to the bathroom in the snow) and I found the extension cords. And the canned tomatoes. Still in the back seat of my car. And one of the cans of tomatoes didn't give you a squishy liquid sound when you tried to shake it: it was kinda solid.
Saturday night it was down to 5f in the wee small hours of the morning.
So I sat the two cans on the counter for a while, and it loosened up, so it wasn't actually frozen solid. I've just given it a soak in a large pan in the hotest water my tap produces, which is around 190 degrees, I expect that's done an acceptable job of thawing it. And it'll be sitting around at room temperature in the mid to high 60s until it gets sliced up nice by my Cuisinart.
I expect the gazpacho to be fine, though I'm substituting minced chipotles in adobo sauce instead of jalapenos for heat, so the flavor profile is going to be a bit different. The shredded chicken tacos that I made for New Year's Eve contain two tablespoons of the minced chipotles, and since they come canned in adobo sauce, you don't remotely use a whole can. If you leave them in the can and cover it with clingwrap, the can for some reason will produce mold almost overnight. So I put them in a plastic storage container in the fridge and tonight they will be gazpacho'd.
Should be interesting!
When I got home, I was desperate to run off to the bathroom, and Russet helpfully got the rest of the stuff out of my car.
Among the things purchased were two light appliance extension cords and two cans of whole peeled tomatoes for the gazpacho. And off and on since Thursday, I kept wondering where the extension cords were because I wanted to put one into use. It wasn't critical, but still....
Today is the first day that I needed to go anywhere in my car since Thursday (last night we took the dogs down since they're not to fond of going to the bathroom in the snow) and I found the extension cords. And the canned tomatoes. Still in the back seat of my car. And one of the cans of tomatoes didn't give you a squishy liquid sound when you tried to shake it: it was kinda solid.
Saturday night it was down to 5f in the wee small hours of the morning.
So I sat the two cans on the counter for a while, and it loosened up, so it wasn't actually frozen solid. I've just given it a soak in a large pan in the hotest water my tap produces, which is around 190 degrees, I expect that's done an acceptable job of thawing it. And it'll be sitting around at room temperature in the mid to high 60s until it gets sliced up nice by my Cuisinart.
I expect the gazpacho to be fine, though I'm substituting minced chipotles in adobo sauce instead of jalapenos for heat, so the flavor profile is going to be a bit different. The shredded chicken tacos that I made for New Year's Eve contain two tablespoons of the minced chipotles, and since they come canned in adobo sauce, you don't remotely use a whole can. If you leave them in the can and cover it with clingwrap, the can for some reason will produce mold almost overnight. So I put them in a plastic storage container in the fridge and tonight they will be gazpacho'd.
Should be interesting!
