What would you make?

[cbayer]

Down to a limited amount of supplies again. Here is what I have -

Romaine lettuce
1/2 green pepper
1/2 red pepper
assorted cheeses (cheddar, feta, parmesan)
green beans
bacon
tortillas (corn)
potatoes
onions
mango
assorted canned and dried goods including tuna, pasta, rice

No butter

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, as I am stumped!

:hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Here's what I would make. I'd chop up a few slices of bacon and fry them

up with onion. Then I'd throw in some green beans and cut up potatoes and simmer until everything was tender. I can make a meal off of that alone, but a simple salad might round out the meal.

[Denninmi]

2. Well, I could envision the following:

Fry the bacon crisp, reserve the bacon grease for frying other things. Cut the potatoes into small cubes, maybe 1/2 inch, and fry them in the bacon grease until crisp, along with some diced onion. Use part of the crumbled bacon along with the fried potatoes and onions, a little bit of the diced pepper, and some cheese to make some kind of quick quesadillas, which you could brown in just a tiny bit of the bacon grease. If you have any vinegar, you could make a quick salsa with the mango, the remaining peppers and onion. Then, if you could come up with a dressing, perhaps blanch the green beans and use them with the romaine and rest of the bacon to make some kind of salad, assuming you could come up with a dressing -- if you have vinegar, you could make a hot dressing with some of the bacon grease.

[The empressof all]

3. I'd make potato pancakes

I'd grate the potato, onion and peppers and use that for the potato latkes. I'd fry them with a bit of the bacon fat. Then I'd make a salad with the green beans with a bacon dressing.

Mango and cheese for dessert.

[cbayer]

7. OK, I tried to make these and it was an absolute disaster.

Completely stuck to the bottom of the pan (used my cast iron skillet) and ended up with a mushy mixture of half-cooked, half burnt inedible mess!

My husband ate it, but he will eat anything, but it was nothing like what I was hoping for.

Help!!!!

[The empressof all]

8. Hope this helps

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=236&topic_id=19945&mesg_id=19967

[cbayer]

9. No egg and no flour - that could have been my problem

What a mess I made!

Will try again using your recipe. Thanks!

:hi:

[Tesha]

4. A German Potato Salad

cook the potatoes until just barely done
fry up the bacon nice and crisp


onion and pepper diced

dressing of vinegar, hot bacon grease and a pinch of sugar

you can cook and add the green beans too if you like.

add whatever herb you like - parsley as an example.

[trud]

11. yes

German Potato Salad. That's what a couple of the previous posters were more or less inventing.

[kestrel91316]

5. There are some pepper and onion and cheese fajita taco/quesadilla thingies in there.

Romaine salad with bacon sprinkles.

Or maybe a tuna pasta salad with chopped peppers and onions in it.

[cbayer]

6. You all are the best!

Since this will be the makings of dinner for at least two nights, I am going to try a number of your recommendations. Someone just brought me some blueberries, so I think I will make some blueberry pancakes as well. Going with something Mexican with a mango salsa, and some fried potatoes and the green beans and potatoes.

Hopefully, a grocery run is in my future!

:grouphug:

[pinto]

10. I assume the meal's long over, but my 2 cents. Quesadillas. Mango dessert.

No clue what to do with the green beans...don't care for tham much, only have them in a mushroom soup casserole type dish. :hi: