I needed tomato juice for this recipe for Roadside Bean and Potato Salad which is on the menu this week at our house. Instead of thinking this out clearly and realizing that I could use the tomato juice drained from the Macaroni with Tomatoes and Summer Vegetables recipe from AICR; (I can’t find that recipe on their site right now-I received it in their Health-E Recipes Weekly email newsletter, which by the way is very nice.) we put tomato juice on the grocery list. So, while we were bright and didn’t get the huge can that needs to be used up in the next 2 days or else, we do have quite a bit of tomato juice at our house. Yes, the can may have been more economical per ounce, but not if we didn’t use it up.
We will eventually need to use it though. I am not sure that any of these recipes from the Campbell Cookbook Easy Way to Delicious Meals will be quite my choice for using up the rest. Wait, the dilly vegetable juice might work-it sounds kind of like an easy gazpacho. The V-8 A la Mode- NO WAY! Lime sherbet with tomato juice?
What do you do to use up unusual ingredients in your house? Do you just avoid recipes with them in the first place? Have you got any V-8 recipes to use it up? I will drink it-but only about once a year.
Eye Opener
3 cups “V-8″ juice
1/2 small clove garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire
Dash “Tabasco” sauce
Combine all ingredients. Heat; simmer a few minutes. 4 to 6 servings
Lime ‘n “V-8″
Thin slices of lime
3 cups “V-8″ juice
4 teaspoons lime juice
1 teaspoon Worcestershire
6 drops “Tabasco” sauce
For garnish, prepare ice cubes by placing twisted lime slices in each cube compartment; fill with water and freeze. Combine remaining ingredients’ chill. Pour over ice cubes in glasses. 4 to 6 servings.
Dilly Vegetable Juice
3 cups “V-8″ juice
2 tablespoons finely chopped cucumber
Generous dash dill seed
Sour cream
Combine “V-8: juice, cucumber, and dill. Simmer a few minutes; stir now and then. Garnish with sour cream. 4 to 6 servings.
NOTE: To serve cold, combine “V-8″ juice, cucumber, and dill. Chill 3 to 4 hours.
“V-8″ a la Mode
3 cups “V-8″ juice, chilled
4 teaspoons lemon juice
Lime sherbet
Cinnamon
Combine “V-8″ juice and lemon juice; pour into chilled glasses. Top each with a small scoop of sherbet. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Stir and serve. 4 to 6 servings.
For some reason this morning the A & W Root Beer jingle is going through my head. So, go throw a mug in the freezer for 20 minutes or so. Then scoop yourself some vanilla ice cream-real ice cream-not that whipped low fat stuff-that won’t work- into it. Then…pour some root beer in, down the side of the glass. Skip that fancy overpriced all natural root beer. Get some Hires or A & W. It will taste better, like your childhood. The fancy stuff…better for straight up drinking.