What can you cook if you have a refrigerator? Recipes “When the refrigerator is empty”...

The phrase “What to cook? The refrigerator is completely empty!” we say as often as “I have absolutely nothing to wear!” And this despite the fact that our wardrobe has long ago turned into a dressing room, and the “completely empty” refrigerator can hardly accommodate what is in it.

Refrigerators in our homes have grown, we began to buy more food, and, accordingly, we began to throw out more waste.

Not so long ago, bread was considered a sacred thing - our grandmothers, seeing a crust of bread on the ground, picked it up, kissed it and fed it to birds or animals. Bread crumbs were carefully brushed off the table into the palm of your hand, and not into the trash can. Now tons of bread ends up in garbage containers...

It may not be entirely modest of me to call myself a thrifty housewife, but I have this “trick” - I don’t like throwing away food. At the market and in the store I try not to buy too much, but this does not always work. Almost always, after preparing a particular dish, there is a little bit of vegetables, fruits and other products left. It seems like it’s not enough for a second time, but I can’t bring myself to throw it away...

And then my imagination comes to the rescue...

Over time I have accumulated own recipes, which can be collected under the heading “When the refrigerator is empty.” So, for your attention - Tips from a Practical Housewife

Make it very delicious creamy soup from those vegetables that were left in the refrigerator is very simple. Boil them with a few cloves of garlic, chop them in a blender and season with aromatic seasonings. As an option, season the soup with cream or sauce - dilute 1 tbsp flour lemon juice, or - egg yolk mix with the juice of half a lemon.

This soup goes very well with croutons - cut old bread into small cubes and fry in the oven until golden brown.

Prepare for such an occasion aromatic seasoning it won’t be difficult either - about eight red peppers, two spoons of peppercorns of all colors that can be found in the house, two spoons of dry cilantro, one spoon each dried mint, garlic, thyme along with one large spoon sea salt grind in a mill - with such a flavor you can eat anything!

Also from different types vegetables can be cooked delicious hodgepodge, the main rule is to use more onions.

If you also prepare hodgepodge with meat, first fry the meat, then remove it from the pan and fry the onion in the same oil, adding half a teaspoon of sugar and cinnamon on the tip of a knife.

Your hodgepodge will turn out delicious like never before!

The easiest way to make pizza is because you can use literally anything - old bread, pasta or noodles left over from the evening, and even rice.

We will assume that you currently have some bread lying around and we will use that for the base of the pizza.

1 tbsp yogurt,

1/3 cup milk

1/3 cup vegetable oil

A little salt

Beat everything together and soak the bread in the resulting mixture.

When the bread is soft, add pizza base from it.

Grate two tomatoes, add a couple of cloves of garlic, spices and salt and prepare pizza sauce.

Now we put everything we have on the pizza base - pieces of sausage or frankfurter, pickled cucumbers or squash, thinly sliced zucchini, finely chopped red pepper-paprika, leeks or onions...

Pour the prepared sauce over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven.

When ready, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and pour with olive oil.

If you have extra bread left over more often than you need for croutons and pizza, dry it and grind it - you will always have some in stock breadcrumbs for cutlets, schnitzel, etc.

The following recipe reminds spanish cuisine: slice mushrooms or zucchini thinly and lightly fry with a little olive oil.

In a separate frying pan, fry a few cloves of crushed garlic, add 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 5 tablespoons of olive oil, salt, black ground pepper, red hot pepper and simmer it all for a few minutes. Then pour over the mushrooms or zucchini.

It turns out very quickly and very tasty!

Greens that have lost their freshness are most often and easiest to throw away. Meanwhile, you can make a wonderful pesto sauce with it. Another option is to chop the greens and dry them.

Cut lemon and orange peels into small cubes or thin strips and add to ice cubes. These ice cubes can be used for cosmetic purposes - to wipe the face, and strong drinks- will add to drinks fresh taste and aroma.

You can also use basil and mint leaves.

Tops from carrots, radishes and beetroot... Don’t rush to throw them away - make an omelet with them. It will turn out tastier, healthier, and more satisfying.

No matter how hard you control it, even at the market they will give us unripe or overripe fruits. If it's strawberry, here's a ready-made face mask for you!

If other fruits, digest them with a little water and sugar and you will have jam for pies.

Is one type of fruit too small to digest into jam? Make an assortment - cook quince with apples, pear with plums, peaches with cherries...

Stale Green pepper, paprika or Charleston, scorch in the oven or over a fire and pour in a sauce made from a mixture of vinegar and olive oil with garlic - a great appetizer!

Well, about the fact that bruised tomatoes can be doused with boiling water, the skin can be easily removed and saved for the next lunch in oil or own juice Probably not worth saying, although who knows...

Recently I came across an article in which such advice was called the “poverty syndrome” and ridiculed a woman who proudly said that only packaging goes into her trash can.

And I'll tell you that in European countries this woman could even be fined for the fact that her packaging goes into the trash, to such an extent everything is used rationally. In my opinion, the “poverty syndrome” is precisely the habit of eating a lot and uncontrollably, buying, cooking and putting “heaps” into plates, and then throwing the leftovers in the trash. This only indicates the low consumer culture of people who do not think about that the possibilities of our Earth are not limitless.

Surely the situation is familiar to almost everyone. Sometimes it happens that we are not ready to receive guests. It is there, in the West, that it is usually generally accepted (if at all it is a habit for them) to treat unexpectedly arriving guests with just a cup of coffee and to accompany it with one small cookie lying forlornly on a saucer. With us everything is diametrically opposite. In Russia, they may simply not understand you if you offer such a treat to your guests. But what to do if it’s practically empty?

What can you cook if you have an empty refrigerator?

Yes, if this is really the case, then you won’t be particularly pleased with the rules of our Russian hospitality. How can this be? The first thing to do in such a situation is to simply calm down and think. The saying that everyone knows about a mouse hanging itself in a refrigerator is still an exaggeration. Since your refrigerator is working, it means that it is not completely empty, you just need to carefully weigh everything and correctly evaluate the “strategic reserves” that you have stored.

So, let's go to the refrigerator, open it and see what's there? Yeah, a piece of cheese, a couple of pieces of butter, a little sausage, and even mayonnaise. Not bad already. We take it all out on the table, there is also, it turns out, the last banana (or maybe two), an open carton of milk and a jar pickles. Well, I think you will always have a piece of bread. And you say there is nothing, this is already quite enough to cook something quite good (in such a situation) snack table.

First of all, you should start by making sandwiches. Under these conditions, this is a completely acceptable option. If your set of products is completely “scarce”, focus on “intricacy”, let your guests pay all their attention not to what the sandwiches are made from, but to the moments that they are prepared with imagination. This can be done quite simply if you cut the bread not as usual, but into triangles, diamonds or circles. If you have free time, then you can fry the bread on butter until it appears golden brown crust. Place the sandwiches on flat dish, while laying them out in groups and rows.

Next to the sandwiches you can place a couple more easy-to-prepare treats. These can be stuffed. You won’t need much time to cook them. Boil the eggs, set them in half, remove the yolk and mix it with pre-grated garlic, cheese and mayonnaise and fill the egg white halves with this already quite appetizing mixture. Then place the eggs on a dish and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs. As another option for original snack such a common and simple dish as the same may be quite suitable fried cheese: mode cheese slices, about a centimeter or one and a half thick, dip these pieces in prepared from eggs, flour and with the addition and then fry in oil.

We will also try to prepare dessert. This will be a banana cocktail: beat a glass of milk (remember our open package?) using a mixer with finely chopped banana slices until foam forms and then immediately pour our cocktail into glasses. Again, if time permits, you can prepare for delicious cupcake. You will need a glass of flour, the same amount of sour cream, a glass granulated sugar and a glass of semolina - mix this whole “set” by adding soda. Then we put it in a mold, having previously greased it with oil, and put it in a preheated oven.

In general, let this unexpected arrival of guests be for you good lesson. And in order to avoid such situations in the future, you should always keep a certain “ strategic reserve» products that will allow you to always get out of such a situation with honor.

A package of puff pastry, various berries and mushrooms, pieces of delicious chicken or brisket cut into portions will not take up much space in your refrigerator, and in such “emergency” cases they will serve as a fabulous “magic wand” (or magic wand). Not to mention canned food, which you need to have in the refrigerator not only for such visits, but just in case - in reserve. A jar of green peas or corn, beans or lecho, saury, everyone’s favorite sprats, canned fruit, the same and also mushrooms are your irreplaceable helpers in any “emergency” situation.

And here’s another option that you can quickly prepare from what is almost always on hand, even in a seemingly empty refrigerator.

The phrase "What to cook? The refrigerator is completely empty!" we say as often as “I have absolutely nothing to wear!” And this despite the fact that our wardrobe has long ago turned into a dressing room, and the “completely empty” refrigerator can hardly accommodate what is in it.

Refrigerators in our homes have grown, we began to buy more food, and, accordingly, we began to throw out more waste.

And then my imagination comes to the rescue...

Over time, I have accumulated my own recipes, which can be collected under the heading “When the refrigerator is empty.” So, for your attention - Tips from a Practical Housewife

Make it very tasty cream soup from those vegetables that were left in the refrigerator is very simple. Boil them with a few cloves of garlic, chop them in a blender and season with aromatic seasonings. As an option, season the soup with cream, or sauce - Dilute 1 tablespoon of flour with lemon juice, or - mix the egg yolk with the juice of half a lemon.

This soup goes very well with it. - cut into small cubes and fry in the oven until golden brown.

Prepare for such an occasion aromatic seasoning it won’t be difficult either - about eight red peppers, two spoons of peppercorns of all the colors that can be found in the house, two spoons of dry cilantro, one spoon of dried mint, garlic, thyme, together with one spoon of coarse sea salt, grind in a mill - with this You can eat anything with flavor!

You can also prepare delicious food from different types of vegetables. hodgepodge , the main rule is to use more onions.

If you also prepare hodgepodge with meat, first fry the meat, then remove it from the pan and fry the onion in the same oil, adding half a teaspoon of sugar and cinnamon on the tip of a knife.

Your hodgepodge will turn out delicious like never before!

Easiest to prepare pizza , because you can literally use anything in it - old bread, pasta or noodles left over from the evening, and even rice.

We will assume that you currently have some bread lying around and we will use that for the base of the pizza.

1 tbsp yogurt,

1/3 cup milk

1/3 cup vegetable oil

A little salt

Beat everything together and soak the bread in the resulting mixture.

When the bread is soft, add pizza base from it.

Grate two tomatoes, add a couple of cloves of garlic, spices and salt and prepare for pizza.

Now we put everything we have on the pizza base - pieces of sausage or frankfurter, pickled cucumbers or squash, thinly sliced zucchini, finely chopped red pepper-paprika, leeks or onions...

Pour the prepared sauce over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven.

When ready, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and pour with olive oil.

If you have extra bread left over more often than you need for croutons and pizza, dry it and grind it - you will always have breadcrumbs in stock for cutlets, schnitzel, etc.

The following recipe is reminiscent of Spanish cuisine: thinly slice mushrooms or zucchini and lightly fry with a little olive oil.

In a separate frying pan, fry a few cloves of crushed garlic, add 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 5 tablespoons of olive oil, salt, ground black pepper, red hot pepper and simmer it all for a few minutes. Then pour over the mushrooms or zucchini.

It turns out very quickly and very tasty!

Lost freshness is most often and easiest to throw away. green . Meanwhile, you can make a wonderful pesto sauce with it. Another option is to chop the greens and dry them.

Lemon and orange peels cut into small cubes or thin strips and add to ice cubes. These ice cubes can be used for cosmetic purposes - to wipe the face, and in strong drinks - they will give drinks a fresh taste and aroma.

You can also use basil and mint leaves.

Tops from carrots, radishes and beetroot ...Don't rush to throw them away - make an omelet with them. It will turn out tastier, healthier, and more satisfying.

No matter how much you control it, even in the market we won’t be given a toss or unripe or overripe fruits . If it's strawberry, here's a ready-made face mask for you!

If there are other fruits, digest them with a little water and sugar and you will have jam for pies.

Is one type of fruit too small to digest into jam? Make an assortment - cook quince with apples, pear with plums, peaches with cherries...

Stale green pepper, paprika or Charleston Sear in the oven or over a fire and top with a sauce made from a mixture of vinegar, olive oil and garlic - a great appetizer!

Well, about that like bruised tomatoes you can pour boiling water over it, easily remove the skin and save it for the next lunch in oil or in your own juice, probably not worth mentioning, although who knows...

Recently I came across an article in which such advice was called the “poverty syndrome” and ridiculed a woman who proudly said that only packaging goes into her trash can.

And I’ll tell you that in European countries this woman could even be fined for the fact that her packaging goes into the trash, to such an extent everything is used rationally there. In my opinion, the “poverty syndrome” is precisely the habit of eating a lot and uncontrollably, buying, cooking and putting a lot of food into plates, and then throwing the leftovers in the trash. This only indicates the low consumer culture of people who do not think about that the possibilities of our Earth are not limitless.

However, I apologize, this is no longer a discussion for a culinary blog.

Refrigerators in our homes have grown, we began to buy more food, and, accordingly, we began to throw out more waste.

And then my imagination comes to the rescue...

Over time, I have accumulated my own recipes, which can be collected under the heading “When the refrigerator is empty.” So, for your attention - Tips from a Practical Housewife

This soup goes very well with it. crackers -Cut the old bread into small cubes and fry in the oven until golden brown.

You can also prepare delicious food from different types of vegetables. hodgepodge , the main rule is to use more onions.

If you also prepare hodgepodge with meat, first fry the meat, then remove it from the pan and fry the onion in the same oil, adding half a teaspoon of sugar and cinnamon on the tip of a knife.

Your hodgepodge will turn out delicious like never before!

Easiest to prepare pizza , because you can literally use anything in it - old bread, pasta or noodles left over from the evening, and even rice.

We will assume that you currently have some bread lying around and we will use that for the base of the pizza.

1 tbsp yogurt,

1/3 cup milk

1/3 cup vegetable oil

A little salt

Beat everything together and soak the bread in the resulting mixture.

When the bread is soft, add pizza base from it.

Grate two tomatoes, add a couple of cloves of garlic, spices and salt and prepare pizza sauce.

Now we put everything we have on the pizza base - pieces of sausage or frankfurter, pickled cucumbers or squash, thinly sliced zucchini, finely chopped red pepper-paprika, leeks or onions...

Pour the prepared sauce over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven.

When ready, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and pour with olive oil.

If you have extra bread left over more often than you need for croutons and pizza, dry it and grind it - you will always have breadcrumbs in stock for cutlets, schnitzel, etc.

The following recipe is reminiscent of Spanish cuisine: thinly slice mushrooms or zucchini and lightly fry with a little olive oil.

It turns out very quickly and very tasty!

Lost freshness is most often and easiest to throw away. green . Meanwhile, you can make a wonderful pesto sauce with it. Another option is to chop the greens and dry them.

You can also use basil and mint leaves.

Tops from carrots, radishes and beetroot ...Don't rush to throw them away - make an omelet with them. It will turn out tastier, healthier, and more satisfying.

No matter how much you control it, even in the market we won’t be given a toss or unripe or overripe fruits . If it's strawberry, here's a ready-made face mask for you!

If there are other fruits, digest them with a little water and sugar and you will have jam for pies.

Is one type of fruit too small to digest into jam? Make an assortment - cook quince with apples, pear with plums, peaches with cherries...

Stale green pepper, paprika or Charleston Sear in the oven or over a fire and top with a sauce made from a mixture of vinegar, olive oil and garlic - a great appetizer!

Recently I came across an article in which such advice was called the “poverty syndrome” and ridiculed a woman who proudly said that only packaging goes into her trash can.

However, I apologize, this is no longer a discussion for a culinary blog.

It's time to prepare lunch or dinner, you go to the refrigerator, open the door... and it's almost empty... What can you do, this situation can happen to anyone, even a very good housewife. What should I do?

Let's remember the well-known Russian folk tale. The grandmother went “scraped the box, broomed it along the bottom, and kneaded the dough” and it turned out to be a bun. But each of us has our own “bins”. Pasta, a little millet, a handful of flour, an onion, a few potatoes. Maybe there are a couple of eggs, a can of canned fish, something else. Of course, if we consider these products separately, then delicious food they don't pull at all. And if you try to cook from them, for example...

Pea soup.
Take half a kilogram of peas, rinse, pour cold water, cook until softened. Then rub through a colander along with the broth. Salt the soup, add fried sunflower oil onion with flour, in proportion: a tablespoon of flour per onion head. The soup is ready.

But it needs to be served with croutons, which, again, are easy to prepare yourself and practically “out of nothing.” You need to remove the crust from the loaf, cut it into cubes, put it on a baking sheet, and season it with a little sunflower oil. If you have a piece of cheese, grate it on the croutons. Place in a well-heated oven. Let it brown. The finished croutons are placed in a plate with soup.

Fish soup.
To prepare it, place diced potatoes in boiling water, add salt and dried herbs. When the potatoes are cooked, season the soup with a can of pink salmon. Separately, fry the grated carrots and chopped onions. Add frying to ready soup along with bay leaf.
This soup is very easy to prepare and does not require large quantity products.
If you don’t have a can of canned food at home, cook soup from what you have on hand. Place grated and fried carrots, potatoes, cabbage, rice or pearl barley into boiling water. The onion also needs to be fried in sunflower oil and seasoned with the soup.

Potato pancakes.
Grate raw potatoes on a fine grater. Squeeze lightly, add salt, ground black pepper, raw egg. Mix. Fry in sunflower oil, preferably on cast iron frying pan like pancakes.

Pancakes.
Pour milk into a bowl, add flour, beat with a fork, add egg, salt, sugar. Ready pancake dough the consistency should resemble liquid sour cream. Bake pancakes.
You can use an egg and onion as a filling. Boil a few eggs, chop finely, add finely chopped green onions, mix, add salt. Next, you need to melt a little vegetable oil and add to the filling.
Or you can eat pancakes without filling, just with your favorite jam, which is also very tasty.

Dumplings.
Take egg, flour, potatoes. You need to make mashed potatoes seasoned with fried onions. This will be the filling. A stiff dough is kneaded from water, eggs and flour, and dumplings are made. Everything is very cheap and simple.

Semolina pudding.
Great breakfast dish. You need to cook a regular one semolina porridge, but without adding sugar to it. Rinse the required number of cups with cold water without wiping, pour hot porridge into them. When it cools down, put it in the refrigerator. Before serving, turn the cups over onto a saucer, and pour honey or jam on top of the finished pudding.

For dessert – shortbread.
Take two glasses of kefir, beat it with two tablespoons of vegetable oil and half a glass of sugar until the consistency of cream. Extinguish half a teaspoon of soda with vinegar and add to kefir. Add half a kilogram of flour and knead the dough. The resulting dough must be rolled out into a layer 0.5 centimeters thick. Place on a pre-greased and floured baking sheet. Bake in a preheated oven until done. While still hot, cut into pieces.

So simple and economical recipes. It’s true, as they say in fairy tales, you can cook porridge with an axe.