Wednesday we had spaghetti with garlic bread, and since we had so much leftover and it is hot here today, rather than make the Macaroni & Cheese I had planned, we are going to eat the spaghetti again today. So no cooking, which means I won't be heating up the house in this heat wave we are having.
To start off with, I cut up and sauteed onions and green peppers (from the garden) and added a can of diced tomatoes.
I didn't have any ground beef, but I did have two boxes of pizza veggies burgers (perfect), so I chopped those up and added those.
I also had a institutional sized can of spaghetti sauce, so I opened that up and used a lot of it for the sauce. At Sam's Club, the institutional sized cans of tomato, spaghetti, and pizza sauce are cheaper per ounce than buying smaller cans.
I can make several batches of spaghetti sauce with one of these big cans. I pour out enough for the meal I'm making and then fill small containers with the remainder, label and place in the freezer for another day.
For the garlic bread, I had a package of sub type rolls that I had left over from Italian Beef (perfect), so I used those up and made garlic bread out of them using my homemade garlic butter.
I actually forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but it looked jut like a plate of spaghetti with meat sauce with garlic bread on the side. It turned out pretty good considering it had veggie burgers in it, and It gives me a good feeling to know I'm "using up" stuff from my pantry and freezer.
What's for dinner at your house today?
Belinda
© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2012.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without”
For the garlic bread, I had a package of sub type rolls that I had left over from Italian Beef (perfect), so I used those up and made garlic bread out of them using my homemade garlic butter.
I actually forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but it looked jut like a plate of spaghetti with meat sauce with garlic bread on the side. It turned out pretty good considering it had veggie burgers in it, and It gives me a good feeling to know I'm "using up" stuff from my pantry and freezer.
What's for dinner at your house today?
Belinda
© Belinda Richardson and Frugal Workshop, 2012.
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without”
That sounds like a great way to make use of what you already have! WTG! Dinner here will be stir fried veggies with pork strips, served over rice. I am planning on making extra rice as leftovers will become a pork fried rice for lunch tomorrow. I spent the morning baking, deboning a hotel turkey breast that I cooked. It's now chopped and sliced, the stock is cooling. All I have to do is make some gravy and add it to the freezer container. I am bracing for a horrible heat wave, so doing the cooking NOW will make for a few easy days, cooking wise. I washed down the bathroom, scrubbed the floor.
ReplyDeleteIt's getting hot, but we are still comfortable with just the windows open, no A/C.
Such good use of planning ahead, Carol! Definitely going to be a heat wave coming. I've been wanting to do a pork fried rice too, I hope you post your recipe. We finally had to turn the ac on around 1:30 as the outdoor temperature reached 96 by that time. Just trying to stay cool for now. :)
ReplyDeleteBelinda, your spaghetti recipe sounds amazing and I love that you used fresh veggies from your own garden! Thanks for sharing and for shopping at Sam’s Club! – Ramona from Sam’s Club
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting my blog, Ramona. :)
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