Kitchen life hacking: weekly algorithm

Thinking what to cook for dinner tonight, basically torturing women, but men do not pass by. A reflection of these very serious. They make the focus on the work, and then for a long time to stand at the shelves in supermarkets, not knowing what to put in the cart.

We leaf through a few hours cookbooks turn for inspiration to the culinary blogs. We know how to prepare and know the little tricks, for example, that the chili pepper, garlic, lemon and other spices can refresh a simple and familiar dishes. What makes us spend hours searching for new recipes? It must be a desire to bring something new to the usual diet. And still the remains of dishes are often discarded because they are "boring" eat up, because yesterday you were eating the same thing for dinner.

In fact, it is easy to diversify dishes, changing them quite a bit, and yesterday's chicken can be submitted again for dinner, but in a new way.

There is a special kitchen algorithm that can you can easily diversify their menu for a long time.

1. The refrigerator should always be that of which you will prepare the main dish. For example, chicken. In the evening, you can fry it or bake and serve with salad or rice. The next day for lunch, you can prepare a salad of chicken residues. And if in the afternoon a little more chicken left, you can apply it with a curry sauce, for example. We get quite a different dish.

2. The pattern remains, the details vary. Chicken with curry, too, can be different today, "Madras", tomorrow "Vindaloo". Salad garnish can be prepared from spinach or Chinese cabbage. And the same fried chicken will seem different dishes.

3. Use seasonal vegetables. Of course, the vegetables can be bought all year round. But where delicious fresh garden radish, which was brought to the market straight from the garden. Add it to the salad, which was left from lunch, and the taste of it refreshed. Add fresh tomatoes to the chicken, and it will play in a different way. Think: "What can I cook using what is already in the fridge and fresh vegetables?" An important point - keep the vegetables and herbs on the mind, not to forget about them, they quickly deteriorate. In general, try not to forget about the small remnants of food and immediately use them to prepare another dish.

Suppose, after cooking the soup that you have a handful of broccoli. Throw it into the processor, to the same add some walnuts, garlic and olive oil. You will get something like pesto sauce. And for dinner, you can eat pasta with sauce. And the remains of the sauce in the morning spread on toasted bread, you get a delicious breakfast.

4. You should always be a lot of different cereals in stock. Let's say you do not want a salad, and want something more profound. Suppose that you have on hand will be a different figure (red, brown, black), farro, barley, couscous. Let the left will also be a variety of pasta, all shapes and sizes. Different garnish adds new zest to the usual dish.

And what you have secrets that allow to diversify the menu without difficulty?