Leftovers 2

Nothing exciting for dinner yesterday at all--and yet, I spent two hours or so in the kitchen making pickles. I told my husband we needed more garlic so I could make more pickles--and he came home with a gallon jar of peeled garlic. I was thrilled to have the garlic already peeled, but it needed to be used pretty much right away--because where do you store a gallon of peeled garlic? So I made four giant jars of miso garlic pickles, a jar of garlic pickles in soy sauce, and two smaller jars of honey garlic pickles. I've tried the honey garlic pickles before, and they have never turned out correctly, but this time I used very small jars, and used more honey than the recipe asked for. I'm hopeful they'll turn it, but it will be a month before they're ready.
Anyway, I spent so much time making garlic pickles (and a new batch of hakusai pickles--Kansai-style instead of plum this time) that I didn't have time to cook anything super-nice for dinner. That, together with the fact we're still cleaning out our refrigerator, meant we had another night of leftovers. The chicken, both spicy and citrus, reappeared, as did the bit of fish that was left, and the miso soup, filled up with tofu we needed to use. We had our usual little side dishes, the garlic pickles, the hakusai, and the hijiki salad, with tororo for our multi-grain rice. The only things I made fresh were some sauteed snow peas, and a zucchini and mushroom stirfry.