cooking with leftovers tagged posts

Ever since I got the box of new batch of Corabella pasta products I have been itching to make something with the potato gnocchi. I could’ve made the Baked Potato Gnocchi W/ Spinach & Ricotta Cheese right away but I’m going to reserve that recipe for some other time. I want to make something new to present here in the foodblog. The new recipe presented itself the day after we had lemon chicken. There were 4 small slices left of the lemon chicken which I know would stay in the fridge for a week coz we’re all going to be too shy to touch them. I figured chopping the chicken up in small pieces will make a substantial winner when combined with the starchy potato gnocchi. A garlic infused butter sauce with capers just sounded so delicious so I decided to make that too.

to cut the story short, we had a lovely dinner of Potato Gnocchi With Leftover Lemon Chicken & Butter Garlic Caper Sauce while we watched The Amazing Spiderman on pay per view.

When my husband was off last Thursday, he asked for a substantial lunch that would really fill him up while he did his school homework. I suggested ramen noodles but he didn’t think it would be enough so I suggested pork chops next. He agreed, so I defrosted 4 pork chops quickly in the microwave, preheated the oven, threw the chops in a sheet pan, brushed them with bottled Caribbean Jerk marinade, then broiled them in the oven, 8 minutes on each side.

I served the pork chops with leftover mashed potatoes. I cooked 4 and we only ate 1 each so I had 2 pork chops left to eat whenever or do whatever sometime. By 4pm, I was wracking my brain what to make for dinner and I had to cook fast coz my husband had to go to school by 5:30pm. So I said, ramen noodles. And he said, “finnnnnnnne, make your ramen noodles.” Hahahaha! And I did. And I added the leftover pork chops, fried egg, and chopped cilantro in it too. So see, this ain’t your regular ramen noodles in a bowl coz when I make ramen noodles, I make it GOOD with all the fixin’.