I had leftover Annie’s shells and cheese, and was mulling about what to do with them. I do like pasta and eggs–an omelet? Too many leftovers for that. Visions of a pasta frittata appeared in my mind. That could work. But I can’t be the first one to think about this, and a Google search on pasta frittata returned lots of hits.
So, diced bacon fried and put aside for topping. Sliced mushrooms sauteed. Four eggs and about the same volume of the leftover pasta which already had asparagus and broccoli bits, diced green onion, mushrooms mixed in, lots of shredded kaseri and romano cheese. In the pan cooking:
Salmon on thinly sliced olive rosemary semolina bread, a layer of cream cheese, lightly pickled red onions and capers. I enjoy the triangles with the cuc slices layered across the top.
Pasta Fagioli soup, bag salad, garlic bread. Soup from Once Upon a A Chef site, which has many recipes I’ve made and liked. A half recipe made at least 4 servings, and took 1.5 hours to prepare and cook. This was OK but not outstanding (pehaps due to my bean choice) and I won’t repeat. Recipe pet peeve - total time in the heading is less than the sum of the cooking times listed for each step, and prep time for dicing ingredients is ignored completely. I used up some of my cooked & frozen Rancho Gordo snowcap beans in place of the white beans, and doubled the lentils to use up some taking space in my pantry.
I don’t have fancy-shmancy bread like you, but thx for reminding me that I have a sizable amount of smoked salmon in the fridge, just waiting to be devoured with capers, pickled shallots, and shmear
Girl kibble as opposed to the “boy kibble “ that’s going viral. Since I had 2cups cooked Basmati rice,this came together quickly. Onions, mushrooms, peppers, broccoli and cauliflower were sautéed along with a couple of Italian sausages. A cup or more of chicken broth I had in the fridge was added and let simmer until everything was cooked through. Added rice , heated just to warm thoroughly, olives, hot sauce and basil at the end.
Red cabbage salad since I needed more veggies !
Chicken Meatballs Marsala, with added sauteed mushrooms and half (i.e. 6 oz) the listed egg noodles. Also sub evaporated milk for the cream. This makes about 6 servings (3 meals for us two). I’ve made it several times before, and it’s marked EXCELLENT in my online recipes folder. The recipe was planned for dinner last night, but it takes me an hour to prepare it, and I was lost on the internet too long.
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