Last Night's Leftovers - Super Soup & Noodles

One of my favorite bloggers at The Tasty Cheapskate (she had me at the title of her blog), did a post on re-using leftovers to create dinner. She comments about a show the Food Network did on large scale wasting of food. Jeanie noted that she would like to see a show on the Food Network where the chefs take everyday leftovers and create something wonderful. I agree! I actually love the Food Network. But, definitely a show featuring down to earth solutions to every day problems (feeding the family with food in the fridge) would be a great for people like us.

Jeanie posted on Leftover Tuesday how she took some spaghetti sauce, bacon, cream, and spaghetti pasta to created supper (Baked Spaghetti) for her family. It looked super yummy! I think our mothers and grandmothers have always recreated with what they had to put food on the table. I remember my mom making many a "rice pie" with leftover rice in the fridge, which was a baked rice pudding that we ate for dessert. However, I do think this could become a lost art with our generation's reliance on processed, premade foods.

I decided to join in and see what I could come up with to create supper with some leftovers I had in my fridge. Now, my pictures are not wonderful. The lighting was bad in my kitchen last night. Its so dark when I get home, but if I turn on all the lights, the pictures are worse. But, you can at least see that it looks yummy and it WAS!

My inspiration was found in one of those ads for Chunky canned soup. You know the ones where the guy dumps his soup over noodles or rice to create a meal? Well, I had some soup (my favorite garlic-y hamburger soup, which I will post the recipe for tomorrow) and I had some wide egg noodles. So, dinner was served! It tasted like a combination of pepper steak / vegetable soup. This meal was very satisfying and I will certainly serve this again. Leftover noodles will never again go to waste in my fridge. And, since I grew up in the south and biscuits were every day fare, one of my favorite "sides" is toasted leftover biscuits. They are just so crunchy and buttery. Yum! I had alot on my plate already, but who could resist those little crunchy babies! Mmmmmm mmmm good!

Here's how I made Last Night's Leftovers (Super Soup & Noodles) AT HOME MY WAY:

Here are the has-beens:

Note that I've already taken leftovers out of this dish. Just a little bit was left. It might have gone to waste if I hadn't seen post at The Tasty Cheapskate!

A little bit of wide egg noodles were left from Monday night's David Letterman's Chicken.

I usually always have some leftover biscuits. These were from Monday night. The recipe is here.

Ta-da! The feast!

One more pic to show the toasty biscuits. I just split them, butter them, and place in the broiler until toasty!

Easy Peasy Parmesan Chicken in the Crockpot (Only 5 ingredients!)

Do you need a super easy, "dump and go" crockpot meal that is super delicious and tastes like you are eating out? I have a good one for you today! RECIPES AT THE TOP - CHIT CHAT AT THE BOTTOM Here's how I now make Crockpot Parmesan Chicken AT HOME MY WAY. Dump & Go Crockpot Parmesan Chicken *only FIVE ingredients plus the pasta* (Print the Recipe HERE) 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts/tenders (frozen or thawed) 1 1/2 cups (app.) of seasoned canned bread crumbs 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese (I use the green can.) 1 or 2 jars (24 oz each) of prepared spaghetti sauce (Prego, Ragu, etc.) (Classico is my favorite lately.) Mozzarella (shredded) (Serve with cooked pasta. We use penne.) Instructions : Place chicken pieces in the crockpot (as much as your family needs). (I use frozen because my crockpot cooks super fast.) Sprinkle the chicken heavily with bread crumbs and then with the parmesan cheese, like this: Dump on the jarred spaghetti...

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Best Dill Pickles EVER! (Just like Claussen) (Easy - no canning!)

Do you want to make the best, easiest homemade dill pickles in the world? I found a recipe for dill pickles that tastes JUST LIKE Claussen refrigerator pickles. Those are the best anyway, right? That crunch, the dill and the garlic... and oh yea , the crunch! This recipe is super easy because you don't have to process these pickles which means there is no canning needed. You just fill a gallon jar (we use an old pickle jar) with fresh cucumbers and dill heads, and then pour over the cooled liquids/seasonings. Let it sit on the counter for three days, and then refrigerate. After that, the pickle eating begins. They are supposed to keep for one year like that in the fridge, without canning. (We let them sit for the 3 days, then refrigerated them overnight before opening the jar for the much anticipated first taste. Did they taste like Claussen? YOU BET YOUR PRETTY PICKLE THEY DID! We were all SO ex...

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Buttermilk Biscuits - Just like Cracker Barrel!

RECIPES AT THE TOP - CHIT CHAT AT THE BOTTOM! Here's how we make Buttermilk Biscuits AT HOME MY WAY: Buttermilk Biscuits (just like Cracker Barrel) (Makes about 8 biscuits.) PRINTABLE RECIPE HERE Ingredients: 2 cups SELF RISING flour (self rising flour gives the perfect taste to homemade biscuits) 1/3 cup shortening (cold real butter also works here) 1 1/4 cup buttermilk* *NOTE: (If using regular milk combined with lemon juice vinegar referenced below, you only need 1 cup of milk because thinner regular milk uses less by volume than the thick real buttermilk.) Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. (Make sure your flour is "fluffed" not straight from the bag; Dump it in a larger container and stir using up and down motion to fluff it up a little bit-THEN measure out 2 cups). Measure 2 cups SELF RISING flour into a mixing bowl. Add shortening and cut it until small and crumbly. A fork works fine for this purpose ...

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