cooking adventures

along the lines of making jam... i've been trying to learn how to cook or preserve "food scraps".  like, re-using extra ingredients from recipes. recent cooking adventures include:

• roasted chicken. then froze the bones until i had time to make chicken stock.  one chicken really goes a long way.  basically, my mom tells me to do this every time we discuss easy cooking.  four years later, check, done!  i'll be incorporating this into my food prep routine.
  
• pickled carrots.
• stuffed peppers, vaguely adapting from this, this, and this.
• steamed corn on the cob and sauteed summer squash.  some vegetables don't need much cooking.
  
• polenta with zucchini and tomatoes.  it's really easy, and really delicious, like a summer version of a mushroom ragout with polenta that i've made.
  
• freezing fresh herbs, bacon, sausage, bread, everything.

sorry to bore you guys.  this is partly a log to look back on one day and see where i found a particular recipe.