WHAT TO DO WITH LEFTOVERS-Pasta sauce, sausages & beans, sauteed shrimp

Another glorious weekend, another group of friends & their (8) children. A usual, we hosted a potluck & as usual there was too much food. Some of the leftovers got eaten up in their original form, but there was still too much.

Tomato & mozzarella sauce
Tomato & mozzarella salad is inedible the next day. Loathe to throw anything away, I tranformed it into a cooked pasta sauce. The ingredients in my friend's version of the salad include fresh basil leaves & anchovies.
Remove the chunks of mozzarella & cook down the rest in a little olive oil. When the tomato is ready, turn off heat and let cool a bit. Purée & set aside covered until ready to use. While pasta is cooking, add the mozzarella, but careful not to melt it into the sauce: should be chunky, it will melt with the hot pasta.

Beans & sausages
Slice a carrot & onion. Sautée in oil. Divide left over sausage into quarters, add to onions & carrots. Add beans of choice (I use white beans), with some fresh sage. A little of the fresh tomato sauce is optional.

Sauteed shrimp
Slice garlic, sautée in olive oil with a chili pepper. Add whole shrimp (do not remove shells) & a glass of white wine.

Salmon salad

A quick, simple way to prepare a nice looking salad or appetizer for the summer. Leave the leftover salmon in chunks, mix with homemade mayonaise (my son has promised to put up his method for mayo, as it is one of the few things I can't make!), capers, echalots, fresh ground pepper. Cut a tomato in half & scoop out seeds, then spoon in salmon salad. Serve on a bed of lettuce.