What's for Dinner, Mon., July 10, 2023

[NJCher]

The refrigerator cleanout and the mini-meals continue. So far I've made the following:

Cold turkey vegetable soup. Veggies are carrots, lotsa' garlic, which I sliced and lightly browned, turnip, spring onion, with julienned Swiss chard, just picked from the garden. Found a quarter of a bag of frozen butternut squash, so I put that in, too. I had a turkey breast which had been roasted, so all I had to do with that is cut into pieces.

On top, either shredded Swiss cheese (shredded a little square of that--buh bye!) or pesto (small amount left in a jar).

For subsequent servings I'll change it up with chopped dill.

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Another item I made was sliced ham on wheat crackers with herb-flavored mayo.

I'll make a beet-feta cheese salad later on with toasted pecans and black-seeded simpson lettuce.

--Most people hate cleaning out the frig, but I'm trying to think in terms of the benefits: consolidating space. Like I combined two bottles of cornichons. Benefit: more space.

--Finding unusual ingredients with which I can be creative. Not sure what I'll do with this pickled lemon, but something will emerge. So creativity is the second benefit.

--You have to have lunch or dinner anyway, so why not use up what you've got? Benefit: less food waste.