Veggie stir fry and sauteed mushrooms!
Dinner from what we dumpstered last night! Yum!
Quality not quantity tonight
I see a stir fry in the near future! Onion, mushrooms, cabbage, and bell peppers! Don’t forget to freeze the ripe bananas for smoothies and icecream! I chose to photograph before the veggies were cleaned and processed because it might not always look pretty when scavanged but there is good food there. Don’t be afraid to check it out. Worse case, you toss it in your compost!
Eggplant Parmesan
I’ve been neglecting this blog… With my new work schedule I don’t get to cook or dumpster dive nearly as often as before, and I’ve gotten bad about taking photos of the results when I do get a chance.
Anyway, this was actually a couple weeks ago but I dumpsters several eggplants and I’ve been using them for various things. This I breaded in a “Parmesan” breaking made with nutritional yeast and potato flakes that I’m still using. Roasted the breaded slices in the oven with a bit of olive oil and threw them on top of some fettuccine and cheap store-bought pasta sauce. Not bad for a quick late-night meal.
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Pizza. Again. Never a bad thing.
Last night was pizza-night again at our house. My roommate and I whipped up this beast quick because we were both hungry! I made a whole-wheat crust with some Thai basil we had that needed used up and reclaimed green onions mixed in with the crust. The crust was brushed with olive oil and balsamic, and then sprinkled with salt and some garlic powder. The sauce is just store-bought. We topped it with red peppers, onions, mushrooms, and cauliflower. Not bad for a quick dinner!
My roommate grilled up some asparagus to go along with the pizza, but I don’t much of it lasted until the pizza was done… it got eaten up while we were waiting on the pizza to come out of the oven… so delicious!
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Just Another Sunday
We’ve started somewhat of a tradition at my house of having Sunday night dinners with friends. Most of the ingredients are usually dumpstered, but occasionally I have to add stuff to make enough food to serve as many people as we’re having over. Here was this Sunday’s meal:
Stuffed Pasta Shells:
These are just jumbo-sized pasta shells stuffed with veggies and “cheese” and rice. I had some broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, and onions from the dumpster that I sautéed in olive oil with some garlic. I threw in some cooked brown rice towards the end to make the rice a bit crispy. The cheese is made from nutritional yeast, oats, mimicreme (from the salvage grocery!), and seasoning. I mixed the sautéed veggies and rice with the cheese, stuffed it into the shells, baked, and then topped with some plain pasta sauce. Nothing fancy, but everyone seemed to like it!
To go with it: A big bowl of fried stuff! Avocado slices, mushrooms, onions, and red peppers. The pepper and onion were from the dumpster, but unfortunately I haven’t found any good mushrooms or avocados in a while and both of those sounded good.
Not pictured: Garlic-y toast with Sriracha… dumpstered oat bread with a mixture of sautéed garlic, sriracha, and olive oil on top. Dang!
Drink of the BEAST.
I love green smoothies. While I usually have to buy greens because they’re a rare dumpster find, all the other ingredients are easy to come by. This is a peanut butter banana spinach smoothie made with dumpstered bananas and peanut butter from the salvage grocery.
This smoothie is before I blended… Apple, frozen pineapple, and spinach. The apples and pineapple were found and frozen months ago. Having frozen fruit on hand rules!
“Beef” and broccoli
I had some canned mock chicken from the international market and had a craving for cheap Chinese food. Broccoli and tofu with garlic sauce is my favorite so this is my re-creation of it with dumpstered broccoli and green onions. I made the garlic sauce with a whole bulb of broccoli and about a cup of tamari. Nice and simple. I added a little agave nectar to sweeten the whole thing and give it that cheap take-out vibe.
Great find!
I love when I find berries! Blackberries and strawberries over some puffed rice. So awesome. Winter is great for dumpster diving here in the Midwest because all the stuff that would normally go bad before I can get to it is preserved. Like delicious strawberries!
