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Today’s lunch was an ensemble of leftovers, easily thrown together minutes after I had returned from a wintry rendezvous with the Union Square Greenmarket.<\/p>\n
I knew when I had asked for a pound of fresh tagliatelle earlier in the week\u00a0that it would be too much for just the two of us, but it looked so good inside the glass case at Luca Donofrio\u2019s\u00a0pastificio<\/em>\u00a0inside the\u00a0Flatiron Eataly<\/a>, and it was so inexpensive, I decided it would just be rude to order less.<\/p>\n We enjoyed most of it on Wednesday, with some leftover pigeon<\/a> sauce, when it had basically been the only part of a meal that wasn’t a leftover.<\/p>\n Today some of that same pasta became the central leftover feature of another meal. The\u00a0amount\u00a0not used 3 days ago today, tossed then in a bowl with olive oil, covered,\u00a0 and placed in the refrigerator, became an almost instant lunch for the two of us, simply heated with a little olive oil and mixed or sprinkled with some more leftovers that had been hanging around the kitchen:\u00a0one\u00a0herb that had already been chopped,\u00a0a bit of crushed dried heatless pepper, and some toasted homemade breadcrumbs (that had not been used on a smoked eel pasta<\/a>)<\/p>\n Even the bread had been ‘leftover’ from earlier meals, but, while purchased days ago,\u00a0 the Bread Alone sourdough miche<\/em> was still fresh.<\/p>\n The whole meal was\u00a0far more delicious than\u00a0the negligible effort it required would have suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s lunch was an ensemble of leftovers, easily thrown together minutes after I had returned from a wintry rendezvous with the Union Square Greenmarket. I knew when I had asked for a pound of fresh tagliatelle earlier in the week\u00a0that it would be too much for just the two of us, but it looked so …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}