Food Waste Friday (and the ATK winner!)

Congrats to commenter #393, Shannon C, the winner of The Six-Ingredient Solution. Shannon, you’ve been emailed. 🙂

For the rest of you who need this cookbook, you can get it for $14.82 (Kindle version) or $18.66 (print edition)

Also, many libraries carry ATK/CI cookbooks, so you could check to see if yours has this one yet.

If you’re seriously needing help with avoiding takeout, though, $18.66 is well worth it…if the book helps you cook at home for even a few meals, it will have paid for itself.

On to food waste!

Bad News

I had to compost a cucumber I never even started eating and a bag of spinach I never even opened.

Nuts.

We have been eating cucumbers, but I just overbought by a bit. I picked up the spinach with the intent of using it in smoothies, but for some reason, I went for a week without making a smoothie at all. And then the spinach accidentally got left out on the counter overnight, and that kind of put it over the edge.

Good News

I had a pretty good number of tomatoes from my parents’ garden…more than we were going to eat before they started to go bad. So, I blanched and peeled about half of them. I froze some of them in a pint jar (I’ll use them to make this blender salsa) and I made a little batch of sauce with the others.

I also had some grape tomatoes that were on their way to becoming dehydrated, all on their own. 😉

So, I perused a few roasted tomato recipes on the interwebs, and ended up tossing mine with olive oil, salt, pepper, and a few cloves of garlic and roasted them for an hour or so at 225 ° F.

So delicious.

Because I’d had sort of an absent week, kitchen-wise, I lost track of some bananas, and they got super dark. So of course, I made some banana chocolate chip muffins.

It’s always my goal to use up our bananas before they get to that point (I’d rather eat them at their prime or freeze them for use in smoothies), but sometimes, they get away from me. You can usually gauge the busyness of my week by whether or not I’ve needed to make banana muffins. =P

Lisey has been baking a lot of lemon/blueberry stuff of late (calling for zest but not juice). The result was an abundance of peel-less lemons in my fridge. So, we juiced them all and made a little batch of lemonade.

So, it wasn’t alllll bad on the food waste front around here.
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