Mondays are always hard. not only are they the beiniing of a grueling workweek, they sometimes yield up nothing for dinner especially in the summer.The fridge has been raided over the weekend. There's nothing to eat . What to do ? Scavenge through the shelves. You may besurprised at what you might be able to make.
Mondays could mean barbecue leftovers. Keep in mind that leftover grilled steak can be used on lettuce and other veggies left from Sunday's cookout. You can create a tasty steak salad. drizzle on a homemade viniagrette. Also throw in any cheese you may have whether it's blue or feta. The cheese will give it extra protein and oomph too. The same can be applied otleftover chicken. If you grilled chicken breasts Saturday or Sunday then , chop them up and trythem in a mayo or vinaigrette based salad. Serve the chicken salad on leftover hamburger or hot dogs buns. Toast will do nicely if you don't have the buns. What about those roasted baked potatoes? They can be turned into crunchy potato skins or twice baked potatoes. for the skins , cut the baked potatoes in half, scoop out mos tof the flesh. Brush with olive oil and bake until crispy. Take out of the oven and top with bacon crumbles and cheddar. Bake again and servew the hit skins with sour creamand guacamole. For twice baked scoop out th e flesh, mash them with milk or sour cream and butter. Refill the potatoes and bake again. serve with a nice salad.
Another way of scavenging is looking at those containers of lieftovers. The leftover pastina can be turned in a variation of cacio e pepe. It's just reheating it with butter and adding cheese and freshly ground pepper. Any pasta can be cooked and made with sauce even if you don;t have any jarred around. Try making it aglia e olio with just garlic and oil. This is toating sliced garlic cloves in oil and then serving the sauce over any kind of pasta. You could also do a burst tomato one that is a mix fo grape or cherry tomatroes sauteed in a garlic butter sauce. The tomatoes are smashed with a wooden spoon when they become tender.. This goes well with chunky pastas such as penne and rigatoni. You just have to get an Italian bread to go with it.Any canned meats can be used a variety of ways. Tuna can easily be turned into a salad which cam be used for Tuesday's lunch or it can also be part of a tuna melt. salmon and crabmeat can be mashed with beaten eggs, corn meal ro bread crumbs and then fried into crispy patites.serve as is or put on hamburger buns.
A scavenged Monday meal can turn into a delicious dinner. Be creative with what you have. The end result is soemthing the family will enjoy eating.
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