One ruined batch of tomato sauce = Lemons
Lemon, artichokes, pesto, pepper = Lemonade
There was spot of mold on the jar of the tomato sauce because we waited too long to finish it off. Too bad we didn’t notice it till after we started cooking. (ok, not me. Boyfriend.) With a pound of cooked pasta, I had to find an alternative topping but there was no parmesan cheese in the pantry. What’s a girl to do?
I scrounge the shelves and find a can of artichoke hearts and a lemon. I google “pasta lemon juice artichoke hearts” and find a recipe from Food Network. It looks pretty reasonable, but I can hear boyfriend futzing around in the kitchen. I don’t know where he got pesto from, but hey, that looks good!
I chop up the artichoke hearts up and juice the lemon. I saute them and put them on top of the pasta and pesto. A little too much lemon juice, but at least I had a vegetable for my dinner. I used the whole lemon instead of tossing out the rest of it or saving it and letting that also get moldy. I ground up some black pepper for some bite and tossed it on top. I took it off the heat when the hearts were warmed through but not browning. Not great, but ok. Good enough to eat.
A well-stocked pantry is key to rescuing dinner. I’m just lucky the shelves weren’t emptier else I would have had to order delivery or take out. Despite the rising price of grain products, it shouldn’t be too hard to keep a few jars and cans of this and that around.
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