Fresh wild sockeye salmon was $8.99 a pound at Costco Wholesale in Hackensack. |
Editor's note: Cooking large quantities ensures you'll have leftovers for other meals in the days ahead, saving you time in the kitchen. Many dinner leftovers are suitable for breakfast.
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Fresh wild salmon is plentiful and relatively cheap. Jersey beefsteak tomatoes are appearing in the market. And organic whole-wheat pasta from Italy can be found in many stores, including ShopRite.
Summer may be coming to a close, but there is plenty of good food to prepare simply at home.
I've been enjoying fresh wild sockeye salmon from Costco Wholesale just about every week since late May, and the price is now $8.99 a pound, down from a high of $14.99 a pound.
Fresh and canned wild salmon are among fish with the lowest amount of mercury, according to the October 2014 issue of Consumer Reports.
What is a bit of tomato doing in my pesto pasta? |
Little of this, little of that
I had a few ounces of dry organic whole-wheat spaghetti and a couple of ounces of dry organic whole-wheat linguine, both with a cooking time of 7 minutes.
And I had a little Kirkland Signature Basil Pesto and leftover marinara with anchovies and sardines in the refrigerator.
I'm not going to make a habit of this, but the combination wasn't bad, and I had enough leftovers for two other meals.
For breakfast the next day, I had pasta and eggs -- a leftover wedge of egg-white frittata with pesto and fresh tomatoes.
For breakfast the next day, I had pasta and eggs -- a leftover wedge of egg-white frittata with pesto and fresh tomatoes.
Save water. You can boil several ounces of pasta in a shallow pan, above. |
With leftover grilled wild salmon in the refrigerator, all I had to to do was prepare fresh spinach with lots of chopped garlic for dinner on Wednesday night.
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The spinach went well with the leftover pasta combination, too. |
All of the ingredients for this one-dish meal can be found at Costco Wholesale, and I would have added a dozen or more peeled garlic cloves, if I had not run out of them.
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