Kitchen

[Sooner]

We just cleaned out the fridge and it dawned on me that out of what we have on hand, and need to get rid of before it goes bad, there are a few dishes we usually can make:

Veggies go into soup, vegetable lasagna or a chopped salad (usually a taco type salad).  

Sometimes we have the ingredients for a pizza: leftover sauce, olives, mushrooms, piece of an onion, cheese, hamburger or ham, etc.

Sometimes we do an Oriental stir fry.  RIce might to into a Middle Eastern or Spanish rice stir fry along with some leftover meat. 

Do you have some go-to dishes dictated by what is looking a little sad in the fridge?  It's a real job to keep things rotated sometimes. 

[FrostyBabe1]

Reservations. I make reservations. 

[eddyandme]

Pizza is where my leftovers go to, @Sooner !

[Sooner]

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@FrostyBabe1 wrote:

Reservations. I make reservations. 

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@FrostyBabe1 Good one!  Yeah we were "where are the car keys" folk too until the past year and a half.  

[FrostyBabe1]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@FrostyBabe1 wrote:

Reservations. I make reservations. 

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@FrostyBabe1 Good one!  Yeah we were "where are the car keys" folk too until the past year and a half.  

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Well, there was that little bit, of course. I just resorted to take out or using my Uber eats pass. Obviously, I'm not much of a cook and have little interest in becoming one. 

[Luvsmyfam]

if you have lots of veggies in fridge,especially in the fall and winter monthes,months, would make soup.

[Snowpuppy]

Kitchen Sink Chili. Everything but the kitchen sink.

Onions, green or other peppers, baby carrots, tomatoes, garlic, celery, on and on....

A bit rustic, never the same twice. Always says homemade.

[jannabelle1]

If I have leftovers from a meal I've made, hubby usually eats them, and depending on what it is I help him out! If I have a lot of veggies in the crisper that need to be used, then I normally make soup in the slow cooker. With leftover pizza, I add a little pizza seasoning and additional cheese and warm it in the oven. With a leftover roast and vegetables, I cut it all up and warm it all together with a little more gravy - my mother called it "hash"....

My downfall is that I buy or make too many salad dressings and specialty mustards! Some of them are fine for quite a while, but others need to be pitched!

[september]

I actually love having a lot of small amounts of leftover veggies + some meat or seafood.  I'll serve them over pasta, rice, or a chopped salad. 

Lots of recipes out there, that require you to wash, peel, chop, and prepare all these ingredients from scratch!   With leftovers, most of the work is done already.  

[Sooner]

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@Snowpuppy wrote:

Kitchen Sink Chili. Everything but the kitchen sink.

Onions, green or other peppers, baby carrots, tomatoes, garlic, celery, on and on....

A bit rustic, never the same twice. Always says homemade.

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@Snowpuppy Since we were in college, poor, and used ever leftover green bean or pea and kernal of corn kept in a freezer bag for soup,  we have called it "garbage soup!"