My New Series: What Can I Do With…?
In my Pantry Challenge wrap-up, I laid out my idea for identifying certain ingredients that have been, shall we say, lingering for a while and need to be used up. Or used at all. Rather than limiting this to just February, I decided to make it an ongoing series, called What Can I Do With…? (I thought about trying to do one every Wednesday, and calling it What Can I Do With…? Wednesdays, but that just seemed a little too convoluted.)
Naturally, I bought all of these for a reason originally (well, almost all of them). I know exactly why I bought pomegranate molasses, but I use it for one recipe and one recipe only. This is about creativity. I’m not suggesting that I have no idea how to use Arborio rice, for example, but, rather, I want to explore both common and inventive uses.
My first batch of What Can I Do With...? ingredients
Here’s a list of what I’m going to start with (in the photo, left to right, back to front):
- Arborio rice
- panko
- fava beans
- pomegranate molasses
- quinoa
- bean threads
- tempura batter mix
- sun-dried tomatoes
- golden raisins
- crystallized ginger
- sushi rice
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Ooh, can we help? Pomegranate molasses is great in mixed drinks for example.
Sure, I’ll take suggestions! Please email them to me – don’t want to tip my hand too much.
The Arborio rice and sun dried tomatoes would be good together in a Caprese risotto (I like this one – http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1654713)
You can also go to allrecipes.com and put in the ingredients you want to use, and it will bring up recipes with those ingredients.
I’m hoping to resurrect this series idea soon, and this sounds great – thanks!