Lots of veggies and Leftovers

Every now and then, we have a night of random leftovers in the fridge, so I try to do something with them to finish them up :)  I usually turn them into a stir fry dish of some sort and so last night, that's exactly what I did.  We always have a bag of frozen mixed vegetables from Costco in the freezer for just these occasions and I always have ingredients on hand to make a stir fry sauce with.  I posted about this sauce before, but if you didn't read that blog, I've added the link to it below.  I love the sauce that's made with this shrimp and broccoli recipe from Pinterest and it's my go-to sauce for most Asian dishes I make (regardless of what the recipe calls for).

Here's the Pinterest recipe for the sauce:
http://damndelicious.net/2015/01/16/easy-shrimp-broccoli-stir-fry/

Now tonight, we also didn't have much left for dinner and I had made a tuna salad this morning for my hubby to take for lunch with him as a wrap and so I decided to make a pasta salad to go with it.  I learned this pasta salad recipe from the lead teacher at a daycare center I was working at while I was in college back in Arizona and it has also been my go-to recipe for years!  The secret ingredients are red onions, black olives, and it MUST be Wishbone Italian salad dressing.  They used to make one called Zesty Italian, but I haven't been able to find it in a while and so now I use the one called Robusto Italian instead.  I take this pasta salad with me to dinner parties and picnics.  It's SUPER easy and can be made with ANY veggies you have in the refrigerator.

Pasta Salad - I used what I had in the fridge: carrots, cherry tomatoes, yellow zucchini, broccoli, black olives, and red peppers.  The tricolor pasta is a MUST!

Salad dressing for Pasta Salad

Here are some pics of my stir fry:

My 2 year old's portion for dinner :)

 I also decided to try a stuffed mushroom recipe that turned out AMAZINGLY!  Here's the link to the Pinterest recipe I used:
http://www.thebusybaker.ca/2016/04/spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed-mushrooms.html

Stuffed mushrooms before going into the oven

Capped mushrooms and cheese blend before stuffing the mushrooms

Mushrooms out of the oven

Singapore Noodle

Last night I felt like having an old favorite of mine!  My old school back in NYC was across the street from a Chinese food restaurant called Panda House.  A colleague of mine (Eileen) turned me on to Singapore Noodles years ago and I've loved it ever since!!!!  There are tons of Pinterest recipes on how to make this, with lots of different add ins, to me they all seem similar.

Here's the one I chose to loosely follow:
http://www.cilantroandcitronella.com/vegetable-singapore-noodles/
I like to add shrimp to my noodles and I also use whatever stir fry veggies I have available.  The recipe's author also makes their own curry, but I just use the store bought curry powder and only put 3 tablespoons in instead of the 4 tablespoons the recipe calls for.  I made it too spicy last time and my 2 year old couldn't have any :(


Here's how mine turned out :)

Just fyi - my 2 year old also LOVES this recipe!

I add the shrimp to the recipe after all the veggies have been mixed in with the curry powder for a few minutes

Frying the veggies in some sesame oil before adding the curry powder

Chopped green onion, onion, garlic, and ginger.  I also added some fresh okra from my garden to the recipe

My mother in law brings up some passion fruit pulp from Grenada for us and this is the last of the bag we had in the freezer!  I made some fresh passion fruit juice with dinner tonight! Yum!