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On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:26:55 -0700, Serene Vannoy
> wrote:

>I had a blast doing a big cook today. Ended up with the following:
>
>27 bean burritos
>8 quarts (2 gallons) potato soup
>29 twice-baked potato halves (I made 15 large potatoes; one half broke)
>Around 100 chicken potstickers (made with home-ground chicken thigh meat)
>4 quarter-pound burgers made from the leftover potsticker meat (so
>they've got scallions and ginger and garlic and stuff in them)
>8 or 9 baked chicken thighs
>4 or so frozen plain chicken thighs
>a bag each of skin/fat for schmaltz, veggie scraps for stock, and
>chicken bones for stock
>2 quarts of really good refried beans (would've made more burritos, but
>I'd only bought 30 tortillas, and three tore because they got too dry)
>A quart of leftover kimchi soup (that's what we had for lunch)
>
>I wrote lots more about it at my blog (at the link in the .sig), but it
>got pretty long, so don't click unless you want lots of detail. :-)
>
>Serene, really tired


Dang you should be, i got tired just reading about it.

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