Leftovers

Saturday: made carrot buns from the Dirt Candy cookbook. Turned out pretty good, if perhaps not worth the effort of making the dough from scratch. (I love the cookbook, but it ranges from 'aspirational' to 'I do not have the equipment to do that.')

Had a lot of filling left over, because I got tired of rolling out the dough.

Tonight, went to make ma-po tofu with mushrooms. Found that my mushrooms were starting to go off, and -- at the moment I am trying to err on the side of not eating things that are going bad. So I still needed some sort of vegetable so that I wouldn't just be eating spicy braised tofu, right?

Enter my leftover carrot bun filling.

DELICIOUS.

Speaking of cooking, I also made balsamic sweet potatoes on Saturday, which are ridiculously good for the amount of effort involved.

Peel some sweet potatoes and chop into bite-size-ish pieces. Braise in a skillet with some water for a few minutes, until the sweet potatoes start to tender up. Then pour in a little balsamic vinegar and a little soy sauce, and heat on medium-low until the balsamic is reduced almost to nothing, stirring occasionally.

I did not have any leftovers of that, for some reason.