The earthquakes are beginning to subside! It is a time to celebrate! But, how do you celebrate when all you have left in the house is the disaster ready non-perishable food items the news convinced you to stockpile? Moreover how would you access your pantry in the event that your house collapsed? Perhaps we are not meant to contemplate such tawdry details...
There is though still the issue of how to keep on living your delicious Vegan At Home-lifestyle after Armageddon. Thankfully canned goods aren't all mushy peas and syrupy peaches and sometimes they are all you have and not necessarily because you've just experienced a natural disaster. You might find yourself in this situation in between grocery shopping trips or, because you are about to go on a long voyage and don't want to come home to a new species of mold overgrowing your vegetable crisper. This is just the predicament we found ourselves in this week as Justice and I are about to jet off to Taiwan on a tea buying vacation with my brother. I'm warning you now. The following recipe is only to be utilized in extreme situations. It is like the outfit you wear the day before a big vacation so as not to waste any of your best wardrobe. You can spot me a day before taking off in white jeans and depending on the time a year either a too short tank top that makes me look like two halves of two different women or a velour sweat shirt once matching its lost track suit counterpart. The point is this recipe is fast and will feed you, but don't go bringing it to any potlucks!

Pantry Stew with Rice
1 cup brown rice cooked and set aside
1 can chickpeas
1 can tomato sauce
1 can corn
1 can stewed tomatoes
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
dash of pepper

Place all canned ingredients in a large sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let simmer until the sauce has reduced. Season with cayenne and with pepper to taste. Serve over rice. Best to turn off all the lights and eat by flair gun light.