The Cold and the Pantry

It's not fun to wake up and have the thermometer say it's only -10 out at 11:00 AM.  I thought it was bad when the car said this the other night when I came home at 3:00 AM:

Of course the animals don't like the weather because they can't go out, at least not for long.

One good thing about the weather is it makes me want to eat soup and more soup and more soup.  I like soup so it's not a hardship. It also helps with my new year's resolution to eat more from my pantry/cupboards (I don't really have a pantry) and freezer to clean them out.

Here's my grains/rice/canned fish/cereal/misc cupboard:

As you can see I have a lot to work with.  Now I just need to find some new recipes to try.

This is my pasta/asian/condiment cupboard:

The top shelf is the Asian shelf, the one below it the pasta shelf, the one below it is the vinegar, worchestershire, salad dressing, etc shelf, and the bottom is the hot sauce and misc shelf. Once again, a lot to work with! 

The middle cupboard is my honey/baking ingredients cupboard.  I also have a smaller cupboard that contains my canned veggies, beans, soup, and tomatoes:

I actually go through the stuff in this cupboard faster than the others.

I live in an old house (at least for the US) and found some interesting things on the walls when I moved in like this:

According to the writing on the top:

it's from a cooking school in 1964 which is before I was born! It's also from Pan American Airways!  It has recipes for spice cake, sponge cake, steak in a sauce, and saurbraten.  I intend to try at least one of the recipes this year if not most of them.  There are three smaller things to the side and I'm going to take a magnifying glass to them to see what they are.

Anyone have any recipes that are not soup for split peas?  I have a lot:

and really would like to use them. Between them and my grains I have plenty to create my own salads so I won't get bored. I have  many old cookbooks, including church cookbooks, to look through also:

so I should find something! Trust me I have many more cookbooks than just that shelf.

Well, wish me luck on my resolution!  Now, to find something for lunch...