Last night I was catching up on the most recent episode of Episodes on Showtime and something Beverly, one of the main characters, did reminded me of myself. If you don't watch the show, Beverly and her husband moved from London to Los Angeles to write for a TV show that was to be adapted from their hit show in London. When they arrived the show is changed all around. Instead of being a boys boarding school with a funny but proper teacher/headmaster they end up with a show about a hockey coach (played by Matt LeBlanc spoofing himself) at a boarding school with a sexy librarian. The show is going on hiatus, so Bev and her husband are going to move back to London. She is in the kitchen making stir fry and her husband walks in and asks about what she is cooking and she tells him that it is stir fry that has gotten a bit out of hand. She doesn't want to waste any food so she is adding all sorts of things to the chicken stir fry like raisins and biscotti. His comment is that, "You know not everything has to be an ingredient, right?" I hate wasting food, so I have been known to add little bits of left overs to things to use them up. I made my own soup once with left over pork and vegetables, but had three meatballs still in the frig, so I cut them up and added them too. I will look up and create recipes with what is left from making something else so as not to waste it. Last week I made a lemon pie because I had condensed sweetened milk left over from these chocolate caramel shortbread bars I made, but I didn't have enough for the first recipe I found so I found a similar key lime pie and changed the amounts to make it lemon instead. Anyone else out there obsessed with using everything for something?
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