This is a easy Hong Kong style dish that my mom use to make for lunch on weekends or if I was at home sick. The ingredients are simple: broth, elbow macaroni, some meat (leftovers from dinner or Spam), some veggies (whatever’s around). Sometimes she would fry an egg and put that on top. Eating…
Tag: leftovers
Basic Bone Broth
A basic bone broth is the best thing to have in the freezer, and it’s basically free if you do it right and are willing to put a little effort into your everyday cooking. The key is saving all your scraps and bones in the freezer in large (30cm x 30cm) freezer bags until you…
Roast Chicken – The meal that spawns more meals
Roast chicken is the perfect Sunday dinner. Throw together some veggies on the side, like steamed carrots or peas, a grain, like brown rice, and you’re DONE. After dinner, you can sit in front of the tv and shred the meat off by hand and put in a container for lunches for the week. Here…
Salami and Bean salad
Last week I almost exclusively ate salami sandwiches for lunch. It was a mix of laziness and a weird craving I was having. I still had a little left over, and wanted to make something somewhat healthy and easy so here it is: Salami and Bean Salad. Ingredients 1 can mixed beans, drained and rinsed…
Donburi… type thing
The problem: Leftover rice and other stuff in the fridge Difficulty: Don’t want to make fried rice, despite being Chinese and that being my most common fallback. X-factor: Don’t need to make lunch for husband, so I can be as crazy as I want with this. Solution: Donburi, or a variation thereof. A Japanese dish…
Easy pasta salad
My plan today was to buy sushi for lunch. This morning, my cheapness overcame my laziness and I made one of the laziest, but still satisfying, meals I had in my arsenal. Working Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: roughly 10 minutes Ingredients Pasta, cooked as per directions on package (also a great recipe for leftover…
Basic soup stock
Do you ever find yourself at home in the evenings with nothing to do? No? Well turn off the TV, then. NOW you have spare time, don’t you? Why not spend that time doing something really good for yourself, like making stock? (Don’t worry about missing the latest episode of House. Here’s the plot: Someone…
Crunchy Chicken Salad Sandwich with Raw Kale Salad
What do you do when you have one chicken thigh that you want to spread over two lunch servings without making some sort of stew thingie? Chicken salad sandwiches!! But first, let’s start with the kale salad, as I made that while the chicken was cooking. Raw Kale Salad I love this salad because it’s…