Monday, August 12th, cooking something interesting, or LOL (living on leftovers)?

[pepperhead212]

Not that I was out of leftovers, but I had to use up a BUNCH of those cherry tomatoes (and maybe a few of those others, as well).

I made another batch pasta salad with over 3 lbs of halved cherry tomatoes, mostly those Negro Aztekas, which are great in this. It is basically a double recipe, with a cup of lentils and half cup of whole oats, that I cooked in the IP slow cooker medium, for just under 2 hrs, and used in place of one pound of pasta. I used about a half of one of those small jars of black olive paste I get from lidl, and a spoonful of the green olive paste, about 10 anchovy filets, minced up and about a cup of chopped up basil leaves, along with 8 minced cloves of garlic, and about a half cup of olive oil - another thing from lidl, on their "Greek Days", when I stock up on those items. I got just over 4 qts of this salad, so a generous amount of leftovers, as usual!
Over 3 lbs of halved tomatoes, with the garlic, basil, anchovies, and olive pastes, for the pasta and lentil salad. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

A cup of chana dal and half cup of whole oats, cooked 110 minutes on slowcook in Instant Pot, for salad, with pasta. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Finished pasta/lentil/whole oats salad, with tomatoes, garlic, basil, olive and anchovy pastes, and black pepper. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

BTW, all those Negro Azteka tomatoes I cut up using the "sandwich" method, putting a bunch of them in between two lids of a Chinese restaurant container, and slicing through them. With larger cherries, and those longer ones, I can cut those faster, individually, but with those small ones, they take a lot longer.

 

[caseydog]

Peppered turkey sandwich and chips for me tonight. I wanted to toss a burger on the grill, but it was too hot and humid out, even after dark.

CD

 

[blissful]

WW tomato sandwiches, mine with avocado and dijon, his with avocado and slivered marinated olives. Home canned vegetable bean soup. Brownies, canteloupe

 

[taxlady]

I had the rest of the bachelor suprise I made yesterday. I hadn't intended to cook so much of this. It doesn't reheat well. The flavour just fades quickly. So, I wanted to eat it today, while it still tastes interesting.

 

[dragnlaw]

Roasted some cut up potatoes. Later threw in some green and yellow slices of zucchini. Fried up the last of the smoked pork chop. Spiced up the vegies with a good sprinkle of Shichimi Togarashi. Very tongue tingling and I loved it. The chop was huge, almost too much for me to finish - but I 'took one for the gipper'.

(and yes, I know that is a mis-quote - taking poetic license here)

 

[cjmmytunes]

I had a hot dog, some potato chips, and a small salad.

 

[blissful]

@pepperhead212 that looks SO GOOD and thank you for sharing how you made it too! LOL Living on Leftovers, a way of life here. We call them planned overs.