In Pragmatism, William James offered a pragmatic approach as a solution to reconciling the claims of science with those of religion and morality, and altogether as a 'new way of thinking'.
In the spirit of New Year's resolutions, I'm going to try and be more pragmatic in several ways: Combining the time of my baking so it doesn't interfere with, but compliments my degree work; being economic with ingredients by trying, as much as possible, to use up what we already have rather than buying new products, and substituting accordingly where I can.
To start off with, here's a possibility for New Year's leftovers:
Not-Eaten Mess
Gather leftover chocolate-cakey nibbles i.e. mini rolls, mini millionaires shortbread, mince pies (but don't combine with chocolate unless its dark). Heat on medium for a minute r two in the microwave, or until warm and beginning to melt.
Dish into milkshake or wine glasses so it feels like a dessert.
Add dry nibbles that you don't want to melt down such as dried fruit, peanuts (become non-savoury here, but no cheese bites please!), chocolate coins/orange segments, after eights, marshmallows and so on.
Pour over single cream (or use up squirty cream if you have a can).
Ta-da, a dessert with minimal effort and no ingredient-buying.
Leftover Quiche
Using the quiche recipe below for the pastry cases (but scaled to half), I made one compiled of various fridge/cupboard items found.
1 onion, chopped, fried in margarine, balsamic vinegar (yes, in our student house) and two sachets of sugar to caramelize
a few teaspoons of leftover pesto paste
1 egg beaten
100-ish ml milk
herbs, pepper and salt
grated cheddar cheese
They looked much better cooked!
I also have so just out-of-date vanilla pods rescued from home which can be used it several ways such as to flavour sugar, to counter-balance the tang in cinnamon dishes, for crème caramels/brulee, or to flavour peaches or cream for cakes. We will see what I do with them later this week!
Happy New Year!
