dinner...

I was poking around in the freezer today and saw some leftover cottage pie (it's shepherd's pie, but with beef instead of lamb) that I thought would make a lovely dinner. Then I remembered- the gravy was wheat flour thickened and the mashed potatoes had a lot of milk. Dang & drat!

So now I guess that's off the menu. Unless I can come up with a way to make decent mashed potatoes without milk. Which I'm thinking is not very likely. It's a shame, really. I absolutely love shepherd's/cottage pie.

Since the shepherd's pie was out, I decided to do a simple stir fry using leftover roast beef, some veggies picked up from Trader Joe's (I went there for the first time earlier this week). There were carrots, celery, onion, green beans, and zucchini, and it was all seasoned with garlic, ginger and a dash of tamari sauce. I had a little tin of bamboo shoots, but I totally forgot to add them. The sauce was made with orange juice and box o' broth, which I realized only too late contains 'hydrolyzed yeast extract', and thickened with corn starch. It was served over simple white rice.

All in all, pretty tasty.