Eat All The Leftovers - November 11, 2016
I have many “weirdnesses.” One of them is that I make up words; another is that I cannot stand to throw out food. Can’t stand it. It’s gotten even worse since we moved into our life-lease apartment. We don’t have composting here – or at least not yet. It used to be that those little bits that couldn’t be re-re-recycled into something edible, would get composted. And in theory this would nourish something else that could be eaten. (OK, let’s be honest. At our house at 465 Loach’s Road, we never did anything with our compost – but if we’d wanted to garden…) But now, burbling food goes into the garbage. Gah!
Why am I writing about this? Because hubs and I have just eaten a “clean-out-the-fridge-before-we-go-to-Arizona” meal. You cannot imagine how weird this meal was, so I’ll describe it to you. Put the word “leftover from a day or two or so” in front of every menu item.
- Boiled vegetables from a veggie platter
- Rice from a Chinese food order (CFo)
- Tofu from a CFo
- Noodles from …
- Stir fried veggies from…
- Peas
- Lettuce and tomato
- Hummus-derived salad dressing
- Mashed avocado with lemon juice
- Chocolate
And we did it! The only things left in our fridge now are condiments like ketchup and mayo – and these things will easily last until the next time we move again. (No moves in our near future – thank heavens for preservatives.)
*****
Way back when, when the kids were small, we rarely had leftovers. It’s not that I was a smarter cook – it’s that I used to send all the leftovers with my hubs to work. Picture this – as well as his stacks of marking, he carried in a shopping bag full of margarine containers filled with an assortment of food from the night before. Apparently, he created quite a site in the cafeteria with his co-workers. It was sort of guessing game. What’s behind lid number three? Etc.
I don’t remember when he stopped doing this. I think it was when he got a portable computer and started walking to work. Picture this – a backpack full of essays, an over-the-shoulder computer bag with a computer it in, plus a grocery bag full of vittles. And he wondered why he was getting neck, shoulder and back pain!
We’ll be doing this “Eat All The Leftovers” again when we return from Arizona. Only there, instead of leftover Chinese food, it will be leftover Mexican food. Though this may change. Chinese-Mexican food is coming to Arizona. It started in California at the Mexican border; it’s now available in Phoenix. The restaurant is called “Chino Bandido Takee-Outee” and it has excellent reviews. See http://chinobandido.com/
I can't make this stuff up. And fortunately, now I won’t have to.
(There is some interesting history behind this fusion of food. See http://www.npr.org/…/the-chinese-mexican-cuisine-born-of-u-…)
Why am I writing about this? Because hubs and I have just eaten a “clean-out-the-fridge-before-we-go-to-Arizona” meal. You cannot imagine how weird this meal was, so I’ll describe it to you. Put the word “leftover from a day or two or so” in front of every menu item.
- Boiled vegetables from a veggie platter
- Rice from a Chinese food order (CFo)
- Tofu from a CFo
- Noodles from …
- Stir fried veggies from…
- Peas
- Lettuce and tomato
- Hummus-derived salad dressing
- Mashed avocado with lemon juice
- Chocolate
And we did it! The only things left in our fridge now are condiments like ketchup and mayo – and these things will easily last until the next time we move again. (No moves in our near future – thank heavens for preservatives.)
*****
Way back when, when the kids were small, we rarely had leftovers. It’s not that I was a smarter cook – it’s that I used to send all the leftovers with my hubs to work. Picture this – as well as his stacks of marking, he carried in a shopping bag full of margarine containers filled with an assortment of food from the night before. Apparently, he created quite a site in the cafeteria with his co-workers. It was sort of guessing game. What’s behind lid number three? Etc.
I don’t remember when he stopped doing this. I think it was when he got a portable computer and started walking to work. Picture this – a backpack full of essays, an over-the-shoulder computer bag with a computer it in, plus a grocery bag full of vittles. And he wondered why he was getting neck, shoulder and back pain!
We’ll be doing this “Eat All The Leftovers” again when we return from Arizona. Only there, instead of leftover Chinese food, it will be leftover Mexican food. Though this may change. Chinese-Mexican food is coming to Arizona. It started in California at the Mexican border; it’s now available in Phoenix. The restaurant is called “Chino Bandido Takee-Outee” and it has excellent reviews. See http://chinobandido.com/
I can't make this stuff up. And fortunately, now I won’t have to.
(There is some interesting history behind this fusion of food. See http://www.npr.org/…/the-chinese-mexican-cuisine-born-of-u-…)