Without much success yet, I must admit…
A key part of this budget is planning well enough that your leftovers all get used. No room for waste. We’re doing well with that, but it can get a bit…boring. I had a minor brainstorm a few days ago and turned leftover brown rice into rather good rice pudding. That was cool. I felt smart. See? Look. Rice pudding.
Yes, it does rather look like a bowl of wet maggots. It's not. It's rice pudding. Food photography is hard and I am lazy.
And then it occurred to me that it was about as obvious a use of the leftovers as the potato scramble was, and that I’m just impossibly slow on the uptake. For an allegedly creative person, I have a hard time re-imagining leftover food as anything other than itself. That is, leftover beans and rice get served again as…beans and rice. You’d think I could at least make some tortillas and chop up some tomatoes and call them burritos, yeah?
