Freezer Diving

I am really not setting up a good example here...
Sunday is usually vegetarian day, for the global conscience around our excessive meat consumption. But this time around, it was porkchops.

To my defense, the alternative was to throw it out. There simply was no room for it in the freezer any more!
That is, after I had to make room for 1kg butter in 10g packages...
Explanation: I use butter as a "condiment", so in very small amounts, and only rarely. I don't want to buy a pack of butter just to throw 95% of it out some time later, and I don't want to be without. So when I came across the pack of butter at a 70% discount, I couldn't help it!

Details:
The pork was in some kind of tomato/mushroom sauce, but almost wiped clean.
Some boiled potatoes, just crushed with knife and fork.
Frozen spinach I also had to pull out. Which I mixed with garlic, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
Garnished with plenty of pecorino and roasted sunflower seeds.

Result:
Could have omitted the vinegar.. And you know what could have a been REALLY good? a dollop of melted butter, right between the potatoes and the spinach! But I don't have any... Oh wait.....

Double Salmon!

Yea, salmon again. It was 2 for price of one, so I tried making it different this time. Maybe I should try a bit harder to get away from this typical "meat/starch/salad" combination.

Details:
Steamed salmon with salt, pepper, and lemon.
Cooked small unpeeled potatoes in danish smoked cheese (only solely danish cheese, actually..) with capers, red onion, sesame oil, and lemon.. Again...
And salad... With tomato, toasted sesame, and... Yes... Lemon... Again

Result:
Nothing new or exciting here, but it all worked well. DID however cheat a little with the salad, and busted out a dressing, because THAT was kind of bland...
Also, smoked cheese is kind of gritty, but when melted it is really creamy. 

How do you make an omelet stay together?

Needed to use up the rest of my chicken and leek, so this was the not-too-fast-but-still-messy solution.

 

Details:
Thin omelet with chicken, chorizo, leek, garlic, halved potatoes, and quartered tomatoes.
With a "ketchup" of Shiracha, tomato paste, worchestershire sauce, dark syrup, garlic, salt and pepper.

Result:
The dish needed a little more taste, but the ketchup made somewhat up for it.
The chorizo however, added much needed flavor to the chicken.


Note to self: Get lesson in flipping pancakes and omelettes. Get kitchen with higher ceiling, and get a mob.