Pantry hummus

For a recent dinner, we had what K refers to as a "clean the pantry" meal. These meals are quite easy and require just a few simple steps; 1) find and chop every fresh veggie in your house, 2) pick a meat from the freezer 3) put everything in a dutch oven with some broth/wine 4) put it all in the oven for 2 hours 5) eat. As usual, it turned out delicious, but there was one problem....

...leftovers. The whole idea behind "clean the panty" meals is to avoid waste. So, time for another idea.

Put the leftover veggies in a blender. Ours included asparagus, potatoes, peppers, corn, mushrooms, beets, sweet onions, scallions, carrots and celery. Add some fresh garlic, olive oil, 2 cans of drained chick peas, salt and pepper. Blend until smooth.

Dip your favorite veggie, cracker, chip or bread into your leftover veggie hummus!

Genius? Not really, but it sure does make the perfect snack and beats wasting food!