On Monday when we got back from Ohio, I made a pasta with the cooked broccoli that was sitting in the fridge, a piece of butternut squash that I cubed and roasted, and some of the oven dried tomatoes – the container that had the drier ones that I did not freeze. And the ends of two containers of previously grated cheese – Gruyere and Parmesan. An half a box of bow tie pasta. I felt virtuous, saving food from the compost bin – used the broccoli before it got slimy, cheese before mold set in …
Last night I made sweet potato quesadillas and a kind of orange rice with bits of yellow and red tomatoes and diced onion. It was a bit bland but still tasty – it would have been really good if I’d thawed some veggie broth to cook it in. I had been to both the co-op and the grocery store, so a little less of using stuff up – but the tortillas and mozzarella had been in the cheese drawer for weeks, and the tomatoes were saved from before we went to Ohio. I bought the parsley to make the pesto that goes into the quesadillas, but that was about it. The pictures were all bad, so older shots are standing in.
