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solarbird ([personal profile] solarbird) wrote in [personal profile] telophase 2011-02-02 07:07 am (UTC)

A reasonable teriyaki sauce is about 1/3c soy sauce, 1/3c rice vinegar, about 1T of sesame oil, and 1T of brown sugar. If you don't have sesame oil, but do have sesame _seeds_, crush and use instead. If you don't have either, eh, it won't be as good, but needs must. Beef + green beans + carrots + bamboo shoots + mushrooms = yummy stir fry. Plus you have rice; cook as per normal, use this as a sauce.

Pasta sauce: tomato soup + ground turkey or hamburger + usual Italian spice mix turned up a bit + red peppers (if that's your taste). Serve over pasta, green beans on side. (Suggestion: extend your lasagne by cooking partway through, then slicing to make reasonable sizes, then finishing to cook.)

Possibly take the teriyaki I describe above, add red pepper, add mirin if you've got it, add an extra T of sugar maybe, add lemon from the lemon, result is a semi-reasonable salad dressing. (god damn I wish you had an onion... it makes a better onion dressing, but if you have a yellow or something you have to soak the onion shreds for like two days...)

Damn, I can't believe you have so little pasta and so little veg. What do you eat? (This, apparently! But I digress.)

Okay, okay. Spiral cut ham, stacked back together, coated in brown sugar plus some juice from the pineapple can to make a glaze. Surround in a baking dish with pineapple from can, and roast.

Do you really not have any bread? That eliminates a fleet of sloppy-joe like options, as well as tuna melts. (tuna + cheese on bread of some sort. Plus mayonnaise if you like it that way.)

Tuna salad? Damn, you don't have enough for tuna salad? Well, you have tuna and mayo, you could try carrots instead of celery and maybe green beans.

Tuna or Hamburger HelperCasserole, made the old way: some of the pasta, the tomato soup, LOTS of garlic, some rosemary, the... damn, you lack important things. Is there any chance you can convert that shredded cheese to any kind of thin sauce? You'll want that as a sauce combined with the pasta, then with added tuna, or hamburger, with the hamburger stir-fried separately, preferably with spices to help it along.

Chicken noodle soup can become chicken noodle and brown rice soup, easily enough, to extend it.

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