I haven’t been dumpstering since the start of covid, but my friend saved this nice lamb leg for a year in his freezer. I rubbed it with mustard and herbs and roasted it and made some peppers stuffed with cheese and rice to go with it.
This week I found a couple of unexpected items: some “chicken style” seitan chunks packaged in a tofu-style container, a bottle of cooking sake, baby broccoli, and a couple of nice bell peppers. With some other ingredients (carrots, onion, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, lime juice, a little leftover pineapple juice) I was able… Read More Seitan Stir Fry
With most of the second cabbage, I made sauerkraut. All you need to make basic sauerkraut is cabbage and salt. The process is similar to how kimchi is made, but much simpler. First I removed a few whole outer leaves from the cabbage and set them aside, and sliced the rest. I added a few… Read More Sauerkraut
A few weeks ago we found a whole dumpster full of cabbage, and I took a couple heads so I could use one to make kimchi. A friend had recently made his own kimchi and sent me the recipe he used, for which I had pretty much none of the ingredients, so I used the… Read More Kimchi
For these pierogies, I used a recipe from Taste of Home, and used a nice piece of Gouda in place of the cheddar. It made about four dozen pierogies. For the filling, I started by boiling a pound of little yellow potatoes, then used a stick blender to mix them with a stick of butter*,… Read More Potato and Gouda Pierogies
Since I’ve been sick for the past few days I’ve been eating mostly frozen meals, dried fruit and little ice cream cones. The little ice cream cones are great because even though they’re melted when we find them, the ice cream is coated in a chocolate shell that keeps it intact until they can be… Read More Pesto Chicken and Asparagus with Cashews
I’ve bought soy chorizo in the past and if there’s one thing I remember about it is that it stains everything red. The sausage is also kind of already crumbled inside the casing, so the sausage shape is really just there to make it look more appealing to customers. If you fry it in oil… Read More Soy Chorizo Tacos
Last week I found my section of the freezer was completely full with meats, vegetables and fruit we’d dumpstered over the past few months. I decided to make more of an effort to use that stuff before it started to piss off my roommates (who don’t usually have any food in the freezer, but that… Read More Salmon with Lemon, Artichoke & Polenta
Watercress is a great all-purpose green that can be eaten raw or cooked, and I used to buy it regularly until I found a cheap source of arugula which can be used similarly. Normally if I found a bag of watercress I would want to use it for sandwiches and salads, but since I also… Read More Watercress Soup
This one’s pretty simple. I found a box of frozen carrot spirals this week and wanted to make a quick dinner, so I sauteed a couple of cloves of garlic in a few tablespoons of olive oil, then added the block of noodles and cooked covered, turning occasionally, until they were thawed, which took about… Read More Garlic Parmesan Carrot Noodles
Good Dumpster Cooking 