SUSTAINABLE PANTRY » Leftovers http://sustainablepantry.com PLAN, STOCK, COOK, SAVE. Mon, 21 May 2012 20:48:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sustainablepantry.com http://sustainablepantry.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/Fat_SP_Jar_no_letters_no_border.jpg SUSTAINABLE PANTRY Something From Nothing: Fridge Clean-Out Dinner http://sustainablepantry.com/2012/02/01/fridge-clean-out-dinner/ http://sustainablepantry.com/2012/02/01/fridge-clean-out-dinner/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:58:12 +0000 Alexa http://sustainablepantry.com/?p=3465 These are my favorite types of dinners. You never know where your ingredients will lead you. Tonight, I was inspired by a small container of goat cheese that I impulsively picked up when I was walking around the Union Square Greenmarket this afternoon in the 62-degree February sun. So what did I have in my fridge that could play well with goat cheese? I found a container of leftover cooked orecchiette from last week that I really needed to use, so I decided I was going to be making something with pasta. Hmmm, lentils and goat cheese is a great combination, and I had a small amount of french lentils that would cook quickly, and hence, the dinner was borne.

I threw on a pot of water to cook the lentils, and heated a skillet to sauté some vegetables as a base for the lentils. I ended up with a great quick braise of onion, garlic, carrot and rutabaga (from our CSA) with white wine and herbes de Provence, to which I added the cooked lentils and a little balsamic vinegar. Thrown on the re-heated cooked pasta and garnished with crumbled goat cheese, another episode of clean-out-your-fridge-dinner is complete!

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After cooking for guests both Friday and Saturday night, our kitchen is stocked with the makings for some pretty stellar leftover meals. Tonight we had a simple soup and sandwich dinner: Pumpkin soup and grilled cheese on homemade sweet potato challah with arugula and pickled red onions (those onions are making it into EVERYTHING these days).

NOTE: This was a different type of post for us. While we often use Twitter (@PantryTweets) and Facebook to share pictures of recent meals, cooking updates, and various other deep thoughts, sometimes we want to share these brief posts on the blog itself. Well tonight, we decided to finally go for it. We hope this will improve the experience at Sustainable Pantry by allowing us to post more frequently, and try new things, even if only a picture and a brief thought make it onto the blog. Thanks for reading, we hope you enjoy!

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