Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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Leftovers

"The vanilla is less imposing."

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Jen Deaderick
Mar 21, 2026
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You can make a nice pasta with most leftovers.

I took some of that terrible vanilla bean tuna salad from this morning, heated it up with wine, red pepper flakes, oregano. I cooked up some lentil pasta, added it to the pan, mixed it together. Not bad. The sugar in the yogurt caramelized a bit in the heat, making it a little more toasty than sweet. The van…

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