One of my current household endeavors is not to waste food. I grew up in a full house, and family stopped by often. Nothing was ever wasted.

As an adult, I learned to freeze leftovers in individual portions, and eventually, how to cut up cooked meats and vegetables, and put them in soups, casseroles, and eggs. I learned that from Jacques Pepin’s memoir. It had never occurred to me to chop up cooked chicken and make it into some other dish.
Now our household consists of two adults, a small child, and a toddler. So sometimes the girls eat an astonishing amount, and other times very little. I hadn’t frozen chowder before  this week. It is a requested recipe of DD6 and SS. So when he lived here, there wasn’t any chowder  to freeze.

Heating the chowder was somewhat labor intensive, since I had to keep taking it out of the microwave to stir it. And to make sure the milk didn’t curdle. But not nearly so much work as making a fresh pot.

Having leftover rice to use for fried rice has been so advantageous that I’ve gotten into the habit of making extra and putting it in the refrigerator.

I’m still having to occasionally throw out food. But I’m hoping that we will use everything we cook this week, and begin to see an economic advantage, less trash, and fewer dishes.

Last year one of my SILs made a turkey sage soup. And that is probably my most favorite use of turkey leftovers yet.

So today, I get to the Kroger, and there is almost no chicken for sale. Which is weird since there are dozens of poultry farms nearby. Are they called farms if it’s for chickens? Chicken ranch? Anyway, I saw only a few types of chicken. And all of it is more expensive than last week.

Am I the only person trying to buy chicken this week? How odd.

I made cadon for dinner. Pronounced kuh-doo. It’s Chamarro beef stew. I did this by accident, which seems to be how it always happens. I make lots of Guamanian food on purpose, especially the fried rice. But the cadon is always a surprise. I just put stuff in the dutch oven, and might even think to myself beef stew. But out comes cadon.

I submitted it on allrecipes. But it isn’t approved yet, so can’t share it yet. But I have two other recipes showing there.

DD ate a whole lot of it. I gave her a bowlful and she wolfed it down and asked for more. My dad would be so proud.

Cadon