{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-15T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconwrappedlife.com\/archives\/26"},"modified":"2008-01-15T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T20:14:08","slug":"leftovers-made-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Leftovers Made Even Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Matthew and I had a dinner party last Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it was delicious and we had way too much food (are we shocked by this? NOT AT ALL).\u00c2\u00a0 From leftovers, I made us a Pad Thai type dinner on Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and unlike my many attempts to make Lo Mein for two people (usually ends up being enough for at least four), it made 2 bowls of delicious, and pretty nutritious dinner!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 red pepper, sliced thin<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup of carrots, sliced into pieces about the same size as the pepper<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup frozen peas<\/li>\n<li>1 Tb minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 bunch of scallions, chopped<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 to 3\/4 cup leftover peanut sauce (originally made from chicken broth, coconut milk, lime juice, soy sauce, peanut butter, cayenne pepper, garlic powder)<\/li>\n<li>About 1 cup of leftover shredded\/chopped pork (it was a papaya-glazed recipe I had smashed together from a few different recipes, but you can really use any already cooked meat you like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6or seafood\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6whatever)<\/li>\n<li>Chopped peanuts (unsalted)<\/li>\n<li>1 package fresh Asian noodles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span \/><\/p>\n<p><span \/>The pepper, garlic and scallions went into the saut\u00c3\u00a9 pan with a little canola oil (maybe 2 swirls around the pan) first.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re called aromatics, and they develop their flavors first, making a really great flavor base for any dish\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you could use spicy chilies or peppers, and onions or shallots.\u00c2\u00a0 The carrots and peas went in shortly after this, because they need to cook.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, the pasta was being cooked for about 3 minutes in boiling water.\u00c2\u00a0 While the pasta is cooking, the peanut sauce and pork went into the pan, heating up with the vegetables\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it should seem too thick to coat the pasta at this point, but that will get resolved.\u00c2\u00a0 When everything in the pan is heated through and the pasta is cooked, the pasta was moved directly from the water into the veggie\/pork\/sauce pan, using tongs or a spaghetti fork\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this brings some of the starchy pasta water along with it, thinning the sauce a little, and allowing it to coat the pasta and get everything mixed together.\u00c2\u00a0 Divide into two dishes and top with peanuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Matthew and I had a dinner party last Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it was delicious and we had way too much food (are we shocked by this? NOT AT ALL).\u00c2\u00a0 From leftovers, I made us a Pad Thai type dinner on Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and unlike my many attempts to make Lo Mein for two people (usually ends up being enough for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}