Leftovers can be wonderful

What to make for dinner?

• some sweet Italian sausage that needs cooking
• half a jar of pasta sauce that is about 50% home-made sauce
• some aging fresh mushrooms (shriveling up)
• leftovers from a small bag of pizza cheese (actually, half a bag!)
• some peas (in the freezer) that I had forgotten about
• a cup (uncooked) of penne pasta that's been staring at me for weeks
• the "special ingredient" : the last (close to one cup) of the roasted veggies - eggplant, onion, zucchini, mushroom, red pepper, tomatoes
  
  Cooked the sausage, added everything else (except the cheese) to the sausage and reheated it.  Then turned it into a casserole dish and mixed in the cheese.  Baked, covered, 25 minutes. Served with salad.  Oh boy was that good.

And what's for dessert?  Apple/Pear crisp

• Equal amounts of (peeled, sliced) apples and bosc pears
• A handful or so of dried cranberries
• A handful or so of chopped walnuts
• sugar, cornstarch and nutmeg (as though to make a pie)
• Turn into a baking dish
• Top with (1/2 c flour, 1/2 c brown sugar, 4 Tbsp butter, cinnamon, nutmeg)  all cut together and mixed with 1/4 cup lightly toasted  regular oatmeal.
• Bake at 375 for 30 minutes. Let rest at least 20 minutes before serving.