chubbyalaskagriz
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You haven't gotten groceries yet and your fridge and pantry are low on goodies- yet you need to make a meal. So, you piece together a haphazard dish or menu from a bit of this and that. You don't have all the exact proper ingredients- so you improvise. And sometimes you're lucky enough to come up with something SO OUTSTANDING that you don't think you could ever duplicate it again in a million years!
I did just this tonight! My sister was an hour away at my niece's practice, so I had to pick-up my nephew and a pair of his buds from their practice and get them fed.
Sister's kitchen was low on ingredients, but she did have some chili and some wagon wheel pasta and smidgens of sour cream, cool cucumber-ranch chip dip, some ham/olive cheese-ball, cream cheese, and dry nubs of about 5 kinds of cheeses ranging from bleu and smoked cheddar to munster.
So I re-heated the chili to ladle over bowls of piping-hot crusty improvised mac 'n cheese. The boys said it was the very BEST mac & cheese they'd ever had! Truth be told- it was yummy! Now- my only hope is that none of the boys' moms call and ask for the recipe, 'cause if they do, I'll almost be embarrassed to tell'em!
What about YOU? What delicious versions of a dish have you thrown together in a panic w/ just small amounts of this 'n that, only to result in just about the best version you'd ever tasted?
I did just this tonight! My sister was an hour away at my niece's practice, so I had to pick-up my nephew and a pair of his buds from their practice and get them fed.
Sister's kitchen was low on ingredients, but she did have some chili and some wagon wheel pasta and smidgens of sour cream, cool cucumber-ranch chip dip, some ham/olive cheese-ball, cream cheese, and dry nubs of about 5 kinds of cheeses ranging from bleu and smoked cheddar to munster.
So I re-heated the chili to ladle over bowls of piping-hot crusty improvised mac 'n cheese. The boys said it was the very BEST mac & cheese they'd ever had! Truth be told- it was yummy! Now- my only hope is that none of the boys' moms call and ask for the recipe, 'cause if they do, I'll almost be embarrassed to tell'em!
What about YOU? What delicious versions of a dish have you thrown together in a panic w/ just small amounts of this 'n that, only to result in just about the best version you'd ever tasted?