Don’t eat out, don’t order in, and don’t even go grocery shopping as long as the freezer and pantry are stuffed full of food. Just get creative and use up what is at hand.

Stuffed squid

I needed to make room in my freezer, and the fridge was pretty full to, so I stuffed some squid with what was at hand – some cooked lentils and cooked quinoa (could have been some cooked rice), some defrosted kale but could have anything chopped. I would have liked to flavour with oyster sauce so discovered on that occasion that I had run out. Anyway, after stir-frying it all together I stuffed the squid with the mixture, sealed them and pan-fried them. I would have preferred to served them on the proverbial “bed of ruccola” but I had run out of that too, so used some pea shoots of which I already have an abundance growing on the balcony. It is not the last time I have made sure to always have squid in the freezer.