Wednesday, November 5, 2025

easy cheap meal to share - pasta with chicken and fava bean pesto

 I have taken to stocking food in a nearby Little Free Refrigerator.  Usually I cook 4-6 meals at a time, and I rarely like leftovers, so this has been great.  I get free recycled containers from a food justice place and I cook what I want.  I've also been going through my stockpile of food to make things that I wouldn't make for myself.

Today was pasta.  I boiled a pound of farfalle (such a fun shape), tossed in some rotisserie chicken I'd frozen, and two small jars of fava bean pesto I'd made and frozen, and some extra parmesan I had.  I was going to add a salad but it was too cold and dark to go out to harvest, and it's ok.  It was very tasty, I distributed most of it into containers and delivered them.  It was probably maybe $2.50 for five meals worth.  And it's warm and filling - even if not the most nutritious thing I cook.