What’s In The Kitchen

Posted by: DeputyHeadmistress on Friday, April 4th, 2008

I know many of you do read our regular blog, and I try not to do duplicate posts here for that reason. However, I hope you won't mind this one, I think it was a lot of fun when I posted it originally at The Common Room, and I'd like to try it again here. The results could be different every time.=)

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And just to make sure nobody feels shortchanged, I've combined two posts for the price of one. Oh. Wait. There is no price. IT's free! And we all have a pocket full of free!

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A while back one of my very capable daughters (this is an excellent frugality- teach your children well) made some dough for something like pirogies. The filling was delicious mixture of ricotta cheese and herbs. The wrapping, which had to be boiled, was tedious to work with for a family of nine, and not as tender as one might like. She got frustrated with the process, made something more like lasagna with it, using the dough in layers of filling in a baking dish and put the rest of the dough in the fridge. And it was good.

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A few nights later she got it out, rolled it out to about 1/8 of an inch in thickness and topped it with all kinds of herbal goodness, savory, flavory herb- she says it was just oregano, parmesan
cheese, and garlic powder (she sprinkled it liberally on top and then rolled it down on the top of the crust.) It was delicious. She baked this flat bread and we had it for supper with cheese and sausage.

A few days later I looked in the fridge and found a couple cups of browned ground beef, some carrots, celery and radishes that had been a relish tray on Sunday and were now getting, well, rather depressed, some cold cooked brown rice, half an onion, and Bragg's Amino Acids. We had a delicious stir fried rice dish that the Equuschick put together with a can of water chestnuts added. I have taken leftover fried rice and made spring rolls or egg rolls with it, but the Equuschick's fried rice is so delicious I do not think there are any leftovers.

Odds and ends of leftover bits and pieces of this and that can also be used in:
Pot pies
Soups
Pasta salads
Pocket sandwiches or pasties (make biscuit dough, roll it out and cut it in circles. Inside each circle you can put some filling made of any combination of cooked veggies, cheese, meat, and perhaps a spoonful of something like gravy, cream soup, or cottage cheese.
Crepe fillings ( and crepes freeze very well)
1/2 an apple can be diced, tossed with cinnamon and sugar and baked or microwaved. Top it with a crumb topping and call it cobbler.

Cleaning out the fridge can be a tedious task, or it can be an opportunity:

Here's a list of some of the opportunities I found in my fridge when I cleaned it out a few months ago

Frozen tomatoes (NOT frozen on purpose)
plain cooked pasta- perhaps two cups
salmon and cream cheese, about two tablespoons
spaghetti sauce
sweet and sour chicken
a jar of cooked beans
brown rice
some pork from Italian pork sandwiches
A few tablespoons of leftover one pan dandy (mixture of ground beef, stewed tomatoes, corn, and cheese)
some fried shaved beef, peppers, and onions for sandwiches
mixed vegetables (beans, corn, carrots, peas)
about two tablespoons of bragg's amino acids
about 1/2 cup of tofu
A salad made of refrigerator pickles, tomatoes, and artichoke hearts
About three or four tablespoons of mayonnaise.
about 1/2 a cup of buttermilk dressing nobody likes
Two stalks of bok choy
carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, and celery sticks
a jicama that needed to be used quickly
two egg and sausage 'muffins'
Three opened jars of salsa
two opened jars of ranch salad dressing
Curried lentils

Here's what I did with it:

Soup: I put the frozen tomatoes in the blender and pureed them, then combined them with all the other above ingredients that are in red in a pot on the stove, added water, some beef bouillon and minced onion, and it was lunch, and it was very good. We had it with the Hillbilly Housewife's garlic bread, carrot and jicama sticks, and a pasta salad.

Pasta Salad- the leftover pasta shells, the leftover pickle, artichoke heart and tomato salad, some ranch dressing and mayo. Very tasty, too.

Made the HM a lunch for the following day by giving him the two sausage and egg muffins, carrot sticks, some pasta salad, and a green salad made by snipping the bok choy greens into ribbons and stirring them into some Asian sesame dressing.

Fed the curried lentils to The Cherub for lunch, and for supper she had some of the steak and peppers and tofu.

Poured the salsas all into one jar, even if they were originally different kinds of salsa.

Combined the ranch dressings into the same bottle and added some of the buttermilk dressing (nobody can tell).

Put all the leftovers remaining on the same shelf in the fridge so I know where and what they are.

Made a mental note that I need to dice and fry the celery in something soon, that the milk is suitable only for baking in recipes calling for buttermilk, and we are out of cheddar cheese.What have you done with your leftovers recently? Share with us so we can rejoice at your cleverness, grin at your frugality, or learn something new.

What do you have in your kitchen? Want help figuring out what to do with it? Leave a comment and we'll see what we can help you come up with.

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4 Responses to “What’s In The Kitchen”

Amphritrite Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am

Fried celery? I’m curious and horrified. Please elaborate ;)

DeputyHeadmistress Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Stir-fried. I like celery diced and sauteed in lots of things.

Susan Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Love the idea of combining the salsas in one jar and salad dressings in one bottle. I have at least 5 bottles inverted in my fridge right now! I also have a 1 1/2 inch thick end piece of roast beef that is on its last legs. Any ideas for that? I mixed some of it with all my leftover gravy and packed it in my husband’s lunch earlier this week. No celery here – but I can smell yours as it sautees – yum!

Susan in San Antonio

DeputyHeadmistress Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

As a matter of fact, Susan, I have ten ideas about what to do with leftover roast beef.=) See here.

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