{"id":814,"date":"2010-06-19T18:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2010-06-19T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:55:59","slug":"recycling-is-not-a-sexy-word-if-you-apply-it-to-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/recycling-is-not-a-sexy-word-if-you-apply-it-to-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling is not a sexy word if you apply it to food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There I was peering into the fridge faced by the things that needed to be eaten . The piece of naan called out to me.<\/p>\n

I asked it what it had in mind. It told me to be creative.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered the chicken salad I had made not too long ago. Then the mozzarella called out in with an attitude rivaling anything in West Side Story, <\/em>straight up pissed at me for looking it over. Then I realized that a pizza of some sort was \u00a0before me. So I spread the naan with the chicken salad, drizzled it with Matouk’s<\/a> and topped it with cheese.<\/p>\n

Now this is one of the moments when I am all out grateful for my ex-husband’s influence. Without him, I would have never known Matouk’s. Matouk’s has enhanced my life.<\/p>\n

It all came together beautifully. And the naan has been eaten, along with the recycled (sorry) chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There I was peering into the fridge faced by the things that needed to be eaten . The piece of naan called out to me. I asked it what it had in mind. It told me to be creative. Then I remembered the chicken salad I had made not too long ago. Then the mozzarella… Continue reading Recycling is not a sexy word if you apply it to food<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-d8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2628,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/in-an-open-letter-to-the-chicken-in-the-salad-i-recently-mauled\/","url_meta":{"origin":814,"position":0},"title":"In an open letter to the chicken in the salad I recently mauled,","author":"sherlonya","date":"June 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIn my hunger, I succumbed to the sweet rush of relief that overtook me as the tines of my pork pushed past your gentle resistance. 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