I have some things to use up that I bought at the start of the pandemic. One
is that powdered Parmesan cheese. I also have a lot of Parmesan/Romano
combo. For awhile, someone was eating about a pound a day, putting it on
anything and everything. Then consumption stopped unless I made something
with it in there.

I also had a tube of Polenta. I had two tubes but didn't check the
expiration dates and the one expired some time ago. Can't remember if I
picked that up off the shelf or had it delivered.

Also had some chicken nuggets from Dollar Tree. They were actually pretty
good for chicken nuggets. I don't normally like chicken nuggets.

I did the Polenta in the air fryer. Worked very well but it did take some
time to cook as I could only do 4 slices at a time. I coated each slice in
olive oil and air fried until brown and crisp.

I overlapped the slices around the edge of a pie pan, then did the same in
the middle with the nuggets. I had three bags of nuggets. They were small.
Had to overlap a few of them onto the Polenta.

I put a small amount of red sauce in the bottom of the dish and then
smothered it all with Parmesan.

I figured that wouldn't be enough food given that I made almost two quarts
of chili and two quarts of rice yesterday. I woke up to no rice left and
just enough chili for two meals for me. So...

I cooked more rice.

I also cooked a small box of Penne and mixed it with red sauce and Parmesan.

Need to find more uses for the Parmesan. Maybe I can put it in crackers or
something. Neither of us are overly fond of pasta with red sauce. We both
like it with butter and Parmesan but we can only eat so much of that!