But this week my plans went awry with a nasty stomach bug and not having the kids here (it was a real blessing that the kids weren't here to get exposed to the illness... but that left me with lots of leftover food!). So today I came home from work to find the fairly big bowl of potato salad made with gorgeous locally grown fingerling potatoes and a really delightful blanched pea and red onion salad that I made on Sunday. That was 3 days ago. And I'm just not as interested in eating this now.
I know logically that this food is probably fine, but I've spent the day brushing up on my Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium botulinum knowledge to teach a food safety training tomorrow. And eating leftover potato salad just doesn't sound appealing after that!
So here's how my potatoes and peas found a new life:
I drained off the slightly creamy vinaigrette from the potatoes and tossed them with some onions in a hot skillet. After the onions were translucent, I added the peas (they just had a bit of red onion and Earth Balance on them) and 1/2 can of light coconut milk and a generous 3 Tbsp. of Patak's mild curry paste. After simmering for about 10 minutes, this was a whole new dish!
Plus, boiling for 10 minutes kills most of those scary bacteria I was reading about today :)
3 comments:
I never would have guessed that started out as potato salad. Looks good - and agreed, bacteria be gone!
I'm not the hugest fan of leftovers, either. I don't get skeeved about bacteria, I just get SICK of eating the same meal! Dan and I are still working on a huge batch of veggie burgers that I made ages ago . . . only one more round to go, thank goodness!
I am glad you are feeling better--stomach bugs are no fun :-(
Do you ever freeze your leftovers? Then you can take them out of the freezer later and they are "like new" and there is nothing scary about them!
Courtney
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