Fridge dinner - frittata

After a week of overindulgence, too much food, too much wine and too much money spent, it is time for pulling in the horns of plenty and making a light dinner from what is left in the fridge and eating it with a nice glass of sparkling water!

I have made this frittata with many different ingredients depending on the fridge I am emptying out (but you do have to have eggs).

Really any vegetable or combination will do, I do like a little potato and it always helps if you have some fresh herbs. If you have left over cooked vegetables you can also use these just add them at the end just before the eggs.

This is what I found in my fridge.

Fridge dinner - stuffed peppers

One of my absolute favourite things is to be given a challenge of making dinner from what you can find in the fridge and pantry. Friday night I arrived at my friends house laden with all kinds of wonderful produce from Granville Island, she arrived from Costco also laden with purchases.  All this food was for her husbands retirement party on Saturday and neither of us had given any thought as to what we would have for dinner.

Open fridge what is there to use and what did she need using up? 1lb of lean hamburger, an open can of tomato paste, 1/2 can of chopped tomatoes, 4 rather sad looking bell peppers.

Stuffed peppers it would be.

I have no pictures of the making of this, as it wasn't until we were ready to put it in the oven that Nancy said "you should blog this".  Any way here is what we did

fridge dinner - fried rice (lo fun style)

Thursday night running out of ideas and fresh food, (I usually do my big grocery shop on the weekend) a fridge dinner is called for. This is my name for a meal that you can pull together from what you find in the fridge.  This is what I found in my fridge today

Fridge findings

two small pork chops
one head of broccoli
1/2 an onion
2" of ginger
a clove of garlic
1 yellow pepper
and 3 very small carrots.

Since it was just me and husband for dinner tonight I decided to make fried rice as this is one of his favourites.  I call it lo fun style as it is not very authentic and my Chinese friends call me lo fun (Cantonese for white ghost), I am sure this is a very affectionate term.

I cooked 1 cup of rice in my very authentic Chinese rice cooker and while that was cooking I sweated off the onion ginger and garlic in a little olive oil then added the pork and cooked that until it was golden and cooked through.