| When I first started this blog, it was because I had just been laid off, and wanted my savings to last as long as possible. So I undertook this project, trying to stretch
leftovers in creative new ways. Just reheating was a cop-out. But now I'm re-employed, so it'll have to be a bit different. The cheap meals will more likely be lunches from now on, but
I still intend to keep up my old habits. More money for the expensive dinner parties we like to throw!
A note on costs: in general, I don't keep track of how much things like flour, sugar, salt, and so forth cost. When I list costs, it's usually
just the items I had to buy specifically for that meal. Not always, though. If I buy a bunch of some type of fruit, and use a couple pieces here,
a couple pieces there, I'll try and fill in the per-fruit cost or an estimate. Also, I usually just list costs for the first time I buy something. After that
point, it counts as leftovers, since I've paid the price for it for some other dish, and the fact that I get to re-use it is a bonus.
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Another one?
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
So another open-face sandwich isn't very creative. But it was very good.
Today's foray into making gigantic bruschetta out of our leftovers resulted
in a big slice of sourdough, covered first with our prosciutto salami, then
the rest of the tapenade, then the rest of our poached morels (which were getting
their toes wet in the reduced pan sauce I made to go with our steak), and finally
a hefty amount of Parmiggiano-Reggiano slices. That whole assembly got popped
into the toaster oven, and came out heavenly. I need more tapenade in my life,
clearly. It was definitely the dominant flavor in the dish, except perhaps for
the cheese, but I wasn't minding one bit.
I also enjoyed some pieces of
biscotti for dessert.
posted by Derrick at 10:30 PM
Leftovers
Monday, March 17, 2003
Hee hee! I love dinner parties for helping me eat well cheaply. Well, sort of, anyway.
Today for lunch I brought the rest of the ham we had at our dinner party, as well as the last slices
of cheese, and some bread. I had made a loaf to go with the antipasti platter, but figured that I
might as well make a second one, since the incremental cost on a second loaf is pretty negligable.
I also brought in some of the delicious tapenade.
So the actual lunch was in two parts. The first part was a single piece of bread with the remainder
of the ham and the cheese, the planks of cheese tucked in around the ham so they oozed everywhere
when I melted them in the toaster oven. When it came out, I put some dollops of the tapenade on top,
and enjoyed a stunningly good open-face sandwich.
The second part was very straightforward: the second piece of bread smeared with the rest of the
tapenade. My co-workers commented on how good it smelled throughout lunch (hopefully they didn't mind
the residual garlic from the huge amount I put in the tapenade).
posted by Derrick at 10:41 PM
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