Continued from Episode 2
After heading back to Yakima from the Walla Walla potluck, we visited Zillah, Washington in the morning for a brief Pantry lecture at Mateo’s parent’s house. After teaching the Solomons some basic Pantry methods, I sold them some merchandise before we set up for the final meal in Yakima.
Mateo, still anxious to clear out his substantial back-stock of oats came up with the idea of an Indian style dish he named “Oatmeal Masala.” So we set the palette…
We chose to discard the inner rusted can of C-H-B Tomatoes.
But we added a healthy amount of oats to the Crock-Pot cooking garbanzo beans.
The rest of the ingredients were combined…
The banana-chili chutney was blended…
And dinner was served
Mateo also came up with a drink, that for the lack of a name, I would call “Muddy Chai.”
It could have ended this way, in storybook fashion for my maiden voyage into the heart of Pantryland, America; but it didn’t. I wouldn’t call it temptation, but perhaps the joy of –victory- that led us to a sinful little joint that whips up the largest ice cream cones in the country (the third curved line I saw in Yakima). It was there of all places that we celebrated our culinary Pantry accomplishments.
Love from the Palm Springs of Washington, home of the straightest roads on earth, and the longest ice cream cones to fill them up with.
Matt Sugars
This week's Pantry special, a piece of Pantry history.
Stay tuned to Pantry on Tuesday, December 6th when the 'America, I'm Eating Your Pantry' Tour visits McMinnville, Oregon! Have a Pantry Thanksgiving!
1 comment:
Sugars,
You are looking like a regular Pantry Pimp with that swirl hiding your 'stache, and that fedora cocked just so.
Here's my question: are you giving somebody the bird while holding an ice-cream cone? If so, who?
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