NOT HouseboundFollowing is a couple of things I’ve done with leftover sauteed greens.
1. buy puff pastry, cut into triangles, place a little bit of the greens and cheese of choice if you’d like seal and bake. YUM
2. buy pie pastry. (yes I could have made it but I didn’t want to take the time. ) This time I cut into squares and stuffed so full I had to put another square on top to seal. Bake. I told my daughter we were eating math as we I have cooked Pie Squared.
Both are good hot or cold.
I’ve been checking out cookbooks from the library lately. Ones that have recipes on cooking food you have grown or foraged or even bought local. Seems like a lot of them are from the area in the north east. Some of that stuff doesn’t grow in Texas. Or I’m not interested in eating thistles and milkweed.
So as I garden and generally go about my day, I think about what my cookbook would have.
Um, 2 recipes.
1. eat as you pick.
2. saute what you pick with garlic and onions.
Two recipes do not a cookbook make. And I’m not sure #1 counts as a recipe. However, I have been very happy, with this repertoire. My daughter even pointed to the skillet full of Amaranth and said, “I’m eating that!”
Yay!
I’ll let you know if I come up with any other items for the cookbook.
A good thing about being single is getting to eat when and what you want. And then you get caught up in what you are doing and all of a sudden are hungry and have to fix something.
When the kids were home, or when Gpa was here, I would watch the clock and cook so the food was ready when hunger set in. I hate having to try to figure out what to make when I am hungry.
So the other night I fixed pasta. At first I thought I’d put butter or cheese in it. But then I saw the jar of peanut butter. I’ve been using it to put Toby’s thyroid pill.
I put a glob of peanut butter in the pasta. “Peanut Sauce!” I know it wasn’t really peanut sauce, but it was good enough and I was hungry.
