What delicious dinner have you made from random ingredients on hand?!
What delicious dinner have you made from random ingredients on hand?
Totally out of our normal groceries, last night I had to come up with something for dinner. I ended up with the most delicious spaghetti and meatballs using half a jar of tomatoe sauce, a can of V8, and some frozen Swedish meatballs from Ikea. It turned out so well I will make it again.
So, my question is, What have you made from strange ingredients that turned out well?
Answers:
Once when I was out of food and didn't want to go to the store. Company came by (of course at the wrong time) and I made spaghetti with garlic and it was really great. Used olive oil and minced up about 8 cloves of garlic let it cook in the oil for a few and added oregano, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Then I tossed in the pasta. I was surprised at how good that was because I usually eat pasta with sauce.....every now and then I make it on purpose and the company I had will ask me to make it for them. LOL...
Was almost out of food. Took about a half pound of hamburger cooked in ground up. Cooked some rice and some frozen peas. Mixed it all together. It was pretty good.
Very filling.
Pasta is the answer ;)
I ended up making a pasta sauce out of a couple petrified strips of yesterday bacon, that really cheap swiss cheese (secretly yellow american cheese with some flavoring, I think), torn up left over turkey, and a few chopped up sun dried tomatos, with basil. It was even colorful!
I get bread slices and make up a bowl of ingredients like eggs, capsicum, onion, grated cheese, tomato diced, chilli flakes, mix up and spread on bread and bake in mod oven 12 min and that is yummo!
Goulash! Just today. Cleaned out my refrigerator, threw in some macaroni, some ground beef and Tomato sauce with some grated cheese. Fixed it all in one pan on top of the stove.. It was go-o-o-o-od?
Shrimp Alfredo...Jar of alfredo sauce, can of baby shrimp, regular fettucine pasta, basil from pot in the window. Sprinke parmesan cheese. I make it all the time now, never allow myself to be out of alfredo sauce.
chile mac
i had red and yellow peppers, that i forgot about when i made fajitas the night before. i was out of chicken breast. i had about 1/3 gallon of milk. ran out of cooking wine, but found some vodka on top of my fridge. i had thought italian but was out of noodles (or at least didnt have enough to feed everyone) i ran out of eggs, but still had a few slices of bacon left. i did have some chicken thighs i was planning on frying, so i decided to try something new-
1 small can tomato sauce
1 large whole red pepper
1 small yellow pepper
1 lbs chicken thighs with skin on and bone in
1 slice bacon per chicken thigh
1/4 c vodka
1 c milk
1 package rice, not boil in bag or microwave rice or tottally raw either.
grated parmesean to taste (this came later)
season thighs with sea salt, under skin. on bottom of thigh rub with olive oil and add pepper, touch of salt. wrap 1 piece of bacon around thigh, like you were making croquettes, pin in place with a tooth pick. add rice to bottom of dish ( do not add butter, chicken has plenty of grease for rice, place chicken skin up on top of rice. let chicken rest.
on a roasting pan halve the peppers and coat liberally with sea salt and cracked pepper. place in over at 350, turn peppers once during cooking, once peppers are soft, and you should have a blackened section on the skin where it was touching the metal pan. peel skin off peppers and blend until smooth. in a sauce pan add tomato sauce, peppers, reduce by no more than 1/4. add milk and simmer until well incorporated. add vodka, simmer lightly until the alchohol smell is nearly gone. taste, add seasoning as you like. add sauce to chicken, sauce should be a little thin. bake in 350 oven 1 hour or untill thighs are cooked through. serve and top with parmesean cheese. for quickness sake there is an organic company that makes a roasted red pepper sauce that you can use, but i dont like it as well