Yumminess of the best kind...
In the jar: my version of ribollita, kept piping hot by the thermal jar. I cannot wait for lunch!
Left side dish: stuffing with giblet gravy generously poured on top
Right side dish: green beans and mushrooms
So this long weekend, I began feeling the onset of something gross. By Friday morning I was convinced I was getting the flu and decided to make myself some soup. I remembered making ribollita before and liking it, so I tossed together the ingredients- it's mostly stuff I keep in my panty/freezer anyway, and we're golden. I actually didn't have carrots but had the leftover "sauce" from making pot roast last weekend, along with the super mushy vegetables that'd cooked along with it, so I used that. The end result was super flavorful, the BF loved it again, and though I had to tweak the recipe a bit to match what I had on hand, it still came out delicious and my buddy Orzo, who'd come over to hang out, ate three bowls. I was thrilled! (Since I didn't have ciabatta but had fairly fresh Italian bread, I just sliced that up and put it in the bottom of each bowl. It softened more than ciabatta would have, but was still really delicious.)
After we'd all eaten, what was leftover was fairly "dry"- less liquid and more stuff, so I added another can of diced tomatoes this morning and heated it all up on the stovetop. More cheese, more spinach, whatever I could find, just threw that in, too. It changes as it goes, by the end I expect there to be hardly any beans but some potatoes in there (there's a bag of "stew veggies" in my freezer that I've got an eye on, haha)...
I started feeling better immediately and am looking forward to my lunch immensely. Gotta love that stuffing with sausage, and bacon-based stew...
Happy Bento!!!
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