Being as the December menu is during the Holiday season, I thought it would be a good time to institute a pantry dinner entrée. About 7 years ago as a novice cook I wanted to branch out so I started seeking out recipes for ideas. It has been a good learning experience and I have certainly broadened our horizons but now I use recipes as a crutch. I can throw some simple things together but ultimately I rely on recipes too much. So in the sake of saving some extra cash for Christmas I thought that trying to throw together an “empty the pantry meal” every couple weeks might not only save some money but also get me back to “creative culinary genius” as I like to call it. The best meals always used to come out of my kitchen when stuff was just thrown together. My husband misses those days but he forgets how annoying it was when he would ask for the same meal again and I couldn’t replicate it because it was just thrown together. Now of course there are a lot of great resources out there on the web to give you some ideas. Here are a few I have come across:
http://www.supercook.com/
http://www.foodieview.com/
http://www.recipematcher.com/
Most recipe websites will allow you to search recipes by ingredient:
http://www.recipeland.com/search/by_ingredient/
http://allrecipes.com/Search/Ingredients.aspx
And yes, the December menu is almost done!
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