recommendation: way to use leftovers from your fridge for easy meal

Came up with the best recipe yesterday. Sunday lunches are normally made by cleaning out the fridge from the past week's leftover meal ingredients and seeing what we can make of it. I had bought quick-cook polenta on a whim (dying to try it) and it came in handy for this great meal. Here's what I used:

Polenta Base:
2 cups chicken broth (always keep a few cans of these in house, staple. also, can substitute veggie broth)
1 cup water
3/4 cup quick cook polenta
1/2 cup shredded parm (ok maybe I added a tiny bit more)

Bring chicken broth & water to boil, add polenta and simmer for 5 minutes while whisking till thick. Take off burner and stir in parm. Let sit.

Spicy Sausage Topping:
*this can be varied with anything you have in your fridge!
everything used was from meals during the past week:
1 jalepeno chix sausage from TJ's, sliced thin (comes in pack of 5, other 4 were used for pat dinner - 2 per person)
1 tsp italian spices
2 TBSP chopped onion (could have used more but was all I had left)
1 tsp garlic (buy the one in the jar with oil, so much easier for times like this!)
2 cups fresh spinach (leftover from salad)
1/2 cup Mids marinara sauce (leftover)
1/2 cup chopped pepper (bought yellow one to snack on but never cut up...)
extra parm for topping

Put 1-2 tsp olive oil in pan on medium heat, add sausage to heat. Once browned, add onion and peppers cook 2 min, add garlic. Add italian seasoning. Let cook for 30 seconds. Add spinach, let it wilt a little. Add sauce, stir all together.

Spoon sausage mixture over a few spoons of polenta, sprinkle with parmesan.

Could probably add artichokes, more peppers, other cheese or meats, anything else in fridge. Now that I think about it I had a ton of shredded mozzarella and some olives I could have used in it! Whatever you do, don't skip the parm cheese in the polenta base, that's what totally made it. I've made polenta before and unless you do something with it (pan fry it, cover it in sauce, etc.) it can be a little bland. Also, did I mention this recipe took 15 minutes to make? That's it!!! Original recipe calls for can of diced tomatoes instead of sauce.

enjoy!