Aren’t the grocery bills going up? One great thing about
cutting meat out of the menu, is that my bills at the checkout line have gone
down, but still! Wow! One other way to save money is to eat the food that’s already
in your cupboards, pantry and freezer.
This beautiful soup was made from stuff from my pantry and
fridge. I served it with cheese quesadillas using beautiful sprouted grain
tortillas from deep in the freezer. I forget they were even in there! A simple and satisfying Sunday evening meal.
Here’s what
I used:
½ bag of
navy beans from the pantry
2 carrots
from the bottom drawer of the fridge
1 onion from
the pantry
Vegetable bouillon
from the pantry
¼ jar of
Trader Joe’s Bruschetta from the fridge
Some seasonings
from the cupboard: salt, dried parsley, turmeric
AWESOME
leftover juice from roasted red peppers
See those little bowls of juice? I drained that from the pan that I used to roast some red peppers. It was too good to throw away, so I found a use for it! |
Here’s what I
did:
Quick soak
the beans by boiling them for 2 minutes and allowing them to sit around in that
same water for 1-4 hours. Then drain. Then simmer until tender with vegetable
bouillon. Add chopped carrots, onions and tomatoes. At the end of the cooking
time add the secret ingredient: oily red pepper juice (leftover from when I
roasted a dozen red peppers earlier this week. …. I never throw any food away.
)
Cost:
minimal
Taste: great
Yum!
ReplyDeleteFiona said it all!
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