Comments | poor_skills: An odd question

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An odd question

Nov 06, 2006 17:50

I'm looking for ways to use really obscure, strange things rather than trash them, mostly food products that I hate to waste. Think: the extra brine left in an empty pickle jar, tuna-fish juice (the kind you drain into the sink), peanut shells, orange skins, bananna peels...I'd love to make them edible, but all ideas would be great (unfortunately, ( Read more... )

waste prevention, food

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kejlina November 6 2006, 23:55:53 UTC

I remember reading somewhere that someone would save the jar of brine from olives, and marinate mushrooms in it to give them an olive sort of taste.

merccom November 6 2006, 23:57:15 UTC

you can extract the essential oils out of orange skins to use as flavoring or you can put them in vodka for a couple of days and put an interesting flavor in your drink.

banana skins, you can use the gooy inside of the skin to polish shoes

the brine in a pickle jar.... might be able to add cucumbers and make more pickles

tuna fish juice, i'm sure cats would love it as a treat

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mindiloohoo November 7 2006, 03:19:57 UTC

and sparingly... :-)

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goldbug November 6 2006, 23:58:52 UTC

There are ways to compost inside. See this page, about halfway down.
http://one-change.com/blog/category/recycling/
Also try googling for "indoor compost" or similar phrases.

betsyrockett November 7 2006, 02:18:57 UTC

That's an amazingly cool idea, but the thought of wormies IN my house, even being in some fairly-sealed container gives me the HEEB-JEEBS.
Otherwise, that's extremely creative. *impressed*

kejlina November 6 2006, 23:59:33 UTC

oh, and here are two recipes i love that call for citrus zest (grate it off gently before you peel the orange/lime/whatever. be careful not to grate off the white stuff underneath because that's bitter!)

You can add citrus zest to pretty much any cookie/cake/muffin recipe :)

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jenny_1981 November 7 2006, 00:07:18 UTC

you could use peanut shells as sawdust in a pets cage, if you crush it up?

use the orange peels to dust furniture... they use orange oils in furniture polishing products, so it should work.

you can use the pickle juice to add flavor to tuna salad, instead of just chopping the pickles into the salad.
you could probably also use it to add flavor to a salad dressing or a soup even? or if you were going to cook a roast, I bet it would help to tenderize it....

if you saved the tuna juice, you could make a seafood stock for a fish based soup? or something else to add flavor to a dish... add it to rice? i dunno...

good luck