I’m still thinking about leftovers. Some progress is being made with the
soup plan, and I think it is having positive fringe benefits. Soup works
for using up vegetables, meats and grains. Breads are also coming along. I
haven’t resorted to putting them in the soup yet. I’ve been making melba
toast, and I think I will branch out to making
croutons and
bread pudding
I am still, however, being foiled by prepared dishes (by which I mean
already assembled dishes that are left over) and fruits. I see two main
options for the fruits- fruit smoothies, and fruit soup. However, I’m
still not quite in the right frame of mind for either of these. As far as
I can tell from various webpages like this
one, fruit soups are, in many respects, just smoothies in a bowl. Not
that this is necesarily a bad thing. It just requires a bit of a change in
thinking. And as for the ‘already compiled’ foods, I think the only
solution is to figure out how to add more things to them, or incorporate
them into something else, so that they seem like a slightly different
dish. This avoids the “I am eating the same dinner two nights in a row”
feeling, which is often not so desirable. We humans definitely like to
have diversity in our food.
posted at 16:24 on Tue, 21 Mar, 2006 |
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