The discoveries of Use-It-Up Week

Use-It-Up Week is a week of discovery. Sometimes, those discoveries are fantastic, "hey, these go great together!" moments of synergy. More often, they're of the "good thing I found this is time!" variety. The sweet potatoes in today's lunch are an example of the latter type of discovery.

Not that the sweet potatoes aren't good with their topping of sour cream and salsa (used up the salsa!), but I discovered them just as they were about to turn into soup without the benefit of a pot.

So I sliced off the nasty bits, and using my new, how-did-I-live-without-you chopper, I diced then roasted them. They probably could have stayed in the oven a smidge longer, but they were still good.

Other lunch items are a salad with cranberries and gorgonzola with blush vinagrette (didn't use anything up, but I'm close on the lettuce, and I used up a different dressing for use with my morning snack!); a faux-chicken patty with mayo and mustard packets discovered lurking in the lunch drawer (yes, I have a whole drawer for all my lunch accoutrements, thank you); and more chocolate cherry strudel (that'll probably be gone by tomorrow).