PDF So, here’s last night’s dinner from the pantry – It was pretty great.
Tonight I decided it was Sunday and Jim was off so we’d have a traditional Sunday Evening Dinner. Linguine with tomato sauce, crusty bread and a tossed salad.
I used up two boxes of linguine, 4 cans of diced tomatoes, 2 cans of tomato paste, some balsamic vinegar, onions, garlic and olive oil. (As well as got rid of a tube of tomato paste that I obviously never felt really good about because it had expired in July… of last year!)
Make a simple tomato sauce. You really don’t have to measure any of this. I used 5 cloves of garlic, 2 large onions, 4 cans of diced tomatoes, 2 cans of tomato paste, a little bit more red pepper flake than usual…
Saute the onion and garlic until glossy, add the red pepper flake and cook for about 2 minutes.
Look at how much pepper flake is in there!
Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, and stir and cook until combined. If it’s a little too thin, let it boil for a while to thicken it up. (I had two kinds of canned tomatoes and it was a little thin, so I boiled it down till it was thick enough. Then I added the secret ingredient.
Balsamic vinegar.
Pour in a couple of glugs stir and let it cook a bit more.
Mix the prepared pasta into the sauce, stir, plate and serve.
Served with crusty bread and a big salad dressed simply with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and the same balsamic vinegar you used in the sauce. Shred a little locatelli over the pasta and the salad and enjoy!
Here’s what the pantry looks like tonight.
A little bit better. Tomorrow, I think we might try to get rid of some of those Goya cans on the upper left side. I’ll keep you posted.
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Nice Christine, I gotta do that myself, get to the back of the pantry, I wouldn’t want to post a picture of mine! I can’t wait to see what you come up with for the beans, I usually just add them to soup.
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Your labels are not ALL facing front and the cans are not in size order…now is that how you were taught by my Daddy???
@Jill, :heart: I’m going to blame that on the children, yeah, it’s their fault. Kids! Keep your hands of the cans! Geesh!
K that sounds great… where do the hotdogs in photo one come in?
We have been cooking from our pantry out of necessity these last few weeks. Lack of money is leading to great inventiveness on my part. Which is how I came up with the Southwestern Shepherds Pie b/c I wanted shepherds pie and hubby doesn’t like it. It’s posted on my blog. Turned out so great it will be on our menu again REAL soon.
@Julie, Julie, they were BOGO at Publix. I had to get some proteins in there.