Canned / Tinned goods

Canned clams can be turned into a decent clam chowder. And then there is clam dip

Tuna and V8 juice
At home I eat almost nothing but fresh fruit, veggies and fish

#8.(MW) Canned smoked oysters are useful for making easy finger food eats like Angels/Devils on Horseback with grilled bacon,cheese cubes,pickled silver onions,stuffed pickled olives.Yum!

#10/nutrax - the clam dip recipe you linked to calls for 1 pinch of Large Shepard. What (or who) the heck is that?

Never mind - I watched the video and learned that's presenter's term for round bread used as bread bowl - pinch/pieces from hollowed out bread used for eating the dip

Edited by: Midwesterner - mystery solved

I just grabbed that recipe and random & didn't really read it. I see there are other typos. So I watched the video.

1 pinch of Large Shepard is 1 large loaf of shepherd bread. She's basically making a bread bowl. What she is calling "shepherd bread" is also known as sheeepherder's bread. It's a large round or oval bread that is soft, rather than chewy. It's not something I commonly see in markets, but she says you can use any round loaf. .

this is a more usual recipe for clam dip.

Saute some garlic in olive oil, toss in the canned clams, then add a generous bunch of chopped parsley or cilantro. Serve on top of pasta.

Just tomatoes. If we're also counting jars, then capers and two kinds of cheese.

Yeah, I use canned clams for a red clam sauce recipe that I clipped from Yankee Magazine in the pre-internet days.

It's one of those recipes that can't help but be good because it contains 2 sticks of butter.

fr. I've got jars of pasta sauce on hand too.

Tomatoes
tomato paste
tuna
black beans
kidney beans
garbanzo beans
smoked mussels
flaked crab meat

and one can of clams that has been in the cupboard for at least 5 years. Do you think it's still good?

Scrubb, yeah, I forgot about the whole bean category. I try to use dried beans but I do keep canned in the pantry for last minute dishes.

I read in the Sunday paper that you can cook dried beans, spread in zip-lock bags and freeze, so you have a ready alternative to canned........but it sounds like a pain in the ass to save a couple of bucks.

Although you do avoid the sodium.