One of my great improvised dinners of all time was a few years ago after Easter when my spouse's parents gave us a bunch of leftover ham, and I had made carnitas the Saturday before Easter. I was driving home thinking of what to have for dinner and thought "holy shit" and got nice bread and pickles and made Cubans by pressing the fuck out of them in the pan with something real heavy (I forget) wrapped in foil. It was incredibly epic, and that's my story!