In my ongoing campaign to use up leftover food, I made myself some very simple surf-and-turf fajitas. Pan-fried skirt steak, pan-fried shrimp, chili peppers, and red bell peppers, plus some of my remaining chimichurri. I lightly browned my flour tortillas, painting one side of each tortilla with a bit of leftover garlic butter from a different cooking project.
Surf and turf is the way to go. There's something magical about pairing beef with shrimp—bovines and sea insects. And the leftover chili-powder mix that I used up for this meal contained onion flakes, so for you onion lovers out there, my dish technically had onions in it (many recipes don't call for much other than onions and peppers to go with the proteins), albeit in a form I can tolerate. I still can smell and taste at only about 15% of my regular powers, but what I tasted seemed delicious.
There's not much left in my fridge and freezer now except for some salmon steaks, some peas, some sour cream, a bag of frozen "riced" cauliflower, some Mexican chorizo, and some frozen berries (bloobs and strawberries). I did buy a new thing of eggs, but eggs go fast.
I'm making a batch of almond-flour chocolate-chip cookies to take to work tomorrow, and once I and the company crew finish off the leftovers in the office fridge (chili dogs, regular dogs, mini meatball subs), that'll be it for my leftovers.
Dang. 15%? How much of your smell and taste do you think you recover a day? Is it a linear progression, or is the recovery starting to accelerate?
ReplyDeleteHard to put a real number on it (and 15% is only a rough guess), but maybe 1% every few days. If that. Most days, it feels as if there's no progress at all.
ReplyDeleteWow. Well, with any luck it will all just come rushing back at once.
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