Fridge cleaning
Whenever I have a party, there are leftovers out the wazoo. I was raised by a bunch of women who think that they must feed the entire Marine Corps whenever they have company. My friends were obviously raised by folks with the same viewpoint. Therefore, we can put out a serious spread. This is why I’ve been eating crackers and dips all week for breakfast and lunch.
There was a veggie tray brought to my party and as always the carrots and cauliflower get hit pretty hard, but not much else. Tonight I have decided to make use of the big pile of grape tomatoes left over.
I tossed them into a pan with olive oil and salt and an entire head of garlic broken into its separate cloves. Stuck them in the oven at 400ish degrees (I set the oven to 400, the thermometer said that it was more like 360) and left them in there for a half hour. I came along 2 or 3 times to give them a shake during the cooking.
I mashed the garlic out of it’s skin and squished it up. Yes, squished is a culinary term! *snicker* Then put it into a bowl with the roasty tomatoes and squished them up with a fork. Added some salt and a few dried herbs. Yummo as that blasted Rachel Ray would say (she’s currently on my tv).
I’ve got water on the stove to boil up some pasta. I plan to throw this together and hey – free dinner!
Ok, not quite, but it all came from the pantry/leftovers and did not require me to go to the store. Besides, if I weren’t using the tomatoes in this fashion, they’d probably be thrown out in another day or two as I do not like raw tomatoes.
I’d considered adding a bit of wine and cream and making a schmancier sauce but I was afraid I’d mess it up. It’s damn near perfect right now.
I haven’t found my camera yet since moving, so no pictures. But it’s not all that pretty anyway.