10 Flavors- Natural Egg Dying
Inspired by Just Short of Crazy’s Natural Dyed Easter Eggs, we took a look at the cabinet and inside the fridge to see what kind of experiments we could do. Mix with a… Continue reading
Tag Archive: leftovers
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Shrimp Stock Soup
I can’t believe I have lived this long without making shrimp stock. I love to get intimate with my food (and I am cheap), so I buy shrimp uncooked/uncleaned when it is on… Continue reading
CauliFlour Pizza Dough
What to do with leftover cauliflower- like if you made these sexy Cauliflower Steaks? Making cauliflower pizza dough is one crazy idea. There are a variety of recipes out there- like Your Lighter… Continue reading
Salsa with a side of Fish
A bunch of vegetables leftover in tiny portions… So, I turned them into a salsa for my fish. And it turned out that the salsa became the main dish, with some Tilapia on the… Continue reading
A Loaf of Meat
The great thing about meatloaf is that you can get right in there and mix it with your hands. Throw in whatever you have lying around before it goes bad. We had a… Continue reading
Fried Chinese Noodles
These are fresh Chinese noodles that I bought at the store for some reason. We ate half of them with pasta sauce like traditional people. And the rest sat in the fridge until… Continue reading
Pickle Flavored Zucchinis
This is my best pickle flavored experiment yet! I have had success with cucumbers and okra, and failure with brussels sprouts, but these zucchinis win.. Here is the trick. We eat pickles, love… Continue reading
Mac N Cheese Crumble
Mac N Cheese Crumble Sometimes it isn’t during the week that you are just too lazy to cook; sometimes it’s the weekend- after a brewery tour and tasting- that you come home and… Continue reading
Turnip Cream Gratin
My sister came to visit and bought half & half for her coffee. I like my coffee black, so I knew this would linger in the fridge.. I had purchased a turnip for… Continue reading
Tomato Chicken Couscous
When you have a cooked chicken breast in the fridge and you are too lazy to cook. Mix ingredients together. Add salt and pepper. Delicious.
Picadillo Pizza
This one is for my dad, who used to make picadillo when I was a kid. A hearty cuban dish- you can make it and have a serious amount of leftovers, or you… Continue reading
Pasta with Garlic Ranch Sauce
We ran out of chips, so we couldn’t eat the rest of our Ranch Dip. But I wanted it, so we decided to make a pasta sauce. Add garlic, butter, spinach, cheese, and… Continue reading
Collard Greens Zucchini Boats
We had some leftover black eyed peas and collards from New Years Day, and we needed to do something with them before they were dead. The collards were garlickly good- a 101 Cookbook… Continue reading
Potato Stamp Fryup
For our holiday cards, we handmade them with potato stamps. You cut the potato in half, carve it like a wood cut, slather with paint (use a knife), and stamp onto paper. This… Continue reading
Spinach Potato Casserole
This casserole is one of my favorites, and I usually make it with ground beef or the occasional Italian sausage, but today we made it with leftover stuffing stew (last post). It… Continue reading
The Turkey Carcass and Stuffing Dumpling Soup
I didn’t cook Thanksgiving this year, but when my friends were about to throw the turkey carcass away, I snatched it up. 5 cups of turkey and 8 cups of stock later…. And… Continue reading
Roasted Vegetables
Like every other normal person out there, I like to eat cheese and bread over vegetables, and it isn’t that easy to push myself to, you know, not eat cheese. So, when my… Continue reading
Sage Butter Bucatini
This one goes to Caitlin, who had a ton of fresh sage, so she chopped it up, melted it into a lot of butter, added some lemon- and sage flavored butter is on… Continue reading
Beans and Sauerkraut
Do you know what makes a can of beans taste so much better? Sauerkraut! In this little dish, we opened up a can of chili, spooned it into two bowls, nuked it, and… Continue reading
Sausage Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
I will be honest. I do not know what to do with cabbage. I think it is really cheap and green, so once in a while I buy a 69 cent head of… Continue reading
Beef on Weck Soup
Beef on Weck is a sandwich popular in Buffalo, NY. A roastbeef/horseradish sandwich, the Beef on Weck is known for its kimmelweck roll covered in caraway seeds and coarse salt. So, after a… Continue reading
Vegetable Cornbread Muffins.
I love cornbread muffins because they are super cheap. And delicious. You know what is good to put into your cornbread mix? Anything.. Here we made them with broccoli.
Avocado Egg Bake
Bake an egg in anything… Anything cylindrical anyway. This time, I happened to have half a dying avocado. Here’s the recipe (and more photos)..
White Sauce
Sauces are great things to make and then pour over leftovers. We were inspired by a burrito we had that reminded us of going to Japanese Steakhouses as kids. I was one of… Continue reading
Pickling Brussel Sprouts
Pickle Juice is your friend! Don’t throw away your pickle juice after you eat all your delicious pickles… Chop up raw vegetables and ‘pickle’ them in the juice for a week. It didn’t… Continue reading
Pretzel Bites French Toast
How do you deal with your days old pretzel rolls? They are hard and crusty and might break your teeth… Cut up into slices, soak in a seasoned egg bath, and fry up… Continue reading
Rice Cakes
Leftover rice is the best thing to cook into all kinds of strange meals. This rice was mixed with leftover stir fry (probably also made from leftovers)… Inspired by Polly… Here are more… Continue reading
Soy Sauce Enchiladas
So very easy. Mix leftover beans and rice and dying vegetables- roll up in tortillas- smear enchilada sauce on top and add leftover soy sauce on top. The soy sauce really worked for… Continue reading
Mac n Cheese Quesadilla
After a long day, the fake cheesiness of Kraft’s day old mac n cheese is such an interesting pairing with a few marinated artichokes I had and the last bits of my havarti… Continue reading
