Greetings! I take food
seriously. I enjoy gardening, cooking and, like many of you, I’m a big fan of
eating. For me food represents many things, and thus I really despise wasting
food. As a child and as an adult, very little edible food was thrown out as waste.
I admit, my mother went farther than me. She would cut mold off cheese and
drink sour milk and more. In those days we did not compost, and certainly
didn’t have a worm farm. At present, I have a three tiered worm
apartment complex and two compost bins. So, even the food we do not
consume is returned to the cycle of gardening and so forth.
Leftovers are of great interest to me. Most times when we
dine out I have food left on my plate. Regardless of company or class of
restaurant I pack up the remainder to bring home for a future meal.
Another area of leftovers is the remnants after a recipe has been used
for meal and enjoyed. For many a handful of pasta, one head of broccoli,
or an ounce of tomato sauce will go unused in the pantry or fridge until finally
placed in the garbage or disposal. I find this equally offensive as not keeping
and or eating leftovers.
Shannan is so kind, as she has more meals than not which
are my creations of leftover prepared and unprepared food items. Since we have
moved to a plant focused diet (not true vegans- we eat cage free eggs and dairy
from non-steroid injected grass fed cows* don't you just love the guilty
conscious, yet pretentious disclaimer).
I'll post some meals we make from leftovers. These
will NOT be step by step recipes. The as the core items are leftovers. For
example, last night I used a handful of cauliflower and roasted it with
okra and goat cheese. That was the side dish to what I call Fridge
Lasagna. We've had some lasagna noodles
for much too long. They were in the pantry mocking me. So I used a 1/4 bag of
spinach, a few aging strawberries, a wedge of onion along with two green
peepers, two tomatoes and a fair amount of basil from the garden. I sautéed the peepers and onions while
blending the tomatoes, strawberries, basil, garlic and some spices. Then in
standard lasagna form I layered up a leftover vegetarian
feast.
Use Food wisely and Run!
Tom
No comments:
Post a Comment