{"id":6189,"date":"2012-10-11T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2012-10-11T08:50:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:50:59","slug":"cooking-with-whatevers-at-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/cooking-with-whatevers-at-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking with whatever’s at hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday when we got back from Ohio, I made a pasta with the cooked broccoli <\/a>that was sitting in the fridge, a piece of butternut squash that I cubed and roasted<\/a>, and some of the oven dried tomatoes<\/a> – 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 …<\/p>\n

Last night I made sweet potato quesadillas<\/a> 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.\u00a0 The pictures were all bad, so older shots are standing in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,176],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leftovers","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}