It may not happen often, but there are occasions when you are stuck with some food item that you don’t like. Let’s say you had a party and bought some mustard or other item for your guests. Then you are stuck with it. What to do?
Have you ever had a bottle of salad dressing, or condiment or wine that was perfectly good, just not to your tastes? Use it as a marinade. Even if you aren’t a mustard fan, condiments like mustard have low or no sodium and when mixed with other spices, adds zest to your meat without the regular mustard taste.
Have a bottle of wine at home that wasn’t tainted by the cork, you just didn’t like it? Use it for the beginnings or addition to a great marinade. In any recipe that requires vinegar, wine can be used, it helps tenderize the meat. At the high temperatures the alcohol burns off and you are left with flavor – even if you didn’t like the wine straight form the bottle, combined with other seasonings, you won’t notice it.
Sounds incredulous but it is true. Combining some ingredients you don’t like by themselves with ones you already like, will give your steak, chicken or even pasta sauce a new dimension.
There are times though when you cannot think of another way to use an item, such as an ice cream that you didn’t like. Toss it.
Berries aren’t very sweet? Add a little sugar to them, and either cut or slightly mash them. Let them sit and use them for a fruit topping for pancakes, waffles or even vanilla ice cream.
Think before you throw it away!
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