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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 11:28:06 GMT
Do you try to keep leftovers separate or do you tend to mix them together into a new experimental dish?
Has anything foul or delicious been created from an unplanned mix?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 11, 2009 17:18:40 GMT
If I have a good bit of something, I generally eat it as-is. Every once in a while, depending on what's lurking in the fridge, I might make some kind of casserole thing. My mother laughingly calls that kind of leftover creation a medley.
Dribs and drabs of this or that are fair game to be combined into something new. I frequently use small amounts of leftovers to make my breakfast tacos. They get combined with egg, maybe sauteed chile, maybe cheese to make a nice little mixture. That goes unadorned or perhaps with sauce, chopped onions &/or chiles &/or cilantro or parsley onto hot corn tortillas waiting on a griddle. These I roll up and cover with a lid to keep them hot and flexible.
I do a version of the same thing to create stuff to mix with pasta.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2009 17:24:47 GMT
My mother never hesitated about mixing leftover macaroni with rice with potatoes. It tastes absolutely fine, but it offends my sense of aesthetics.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 11, 2009 17:47:58 GMT
I agree though not sure why. Mixing starches seems somehow vaguely wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2009 10:29:22 GMT
I sometimes make a leftover dish called Biximatur. Depending on what meat you use, it also goes by the name "plane wreck" or "train wreck". The basis is cooked meat of any kind, sometimes several different meats, cooked potatoes, salt, pepper, fried egg and ketchup, but you can add all sorts of other stuff, like cooked vegetables, rice, etc. and use any kind of sauce in place of the ketchup. You brown everything in a pan, fry the egg separately and serve the medley with the egg on top and the sauce on the side. I and many others like to mix the egg yolk into the medley with a little ketchup.
Another leftover dish I have sometimes made I learned to make while at a folk high-school in Denmark. They called it "Ris Otto", or "Otto's Rice", a pun on risotto. It consisted of cooked rice with whatever was left over from last day's meals.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 25, 2009 17:14:58 GMT
You named a dish after me ~~ thank you! ;D
That sounds pretty much like any number of my breakfast taco mixtures, except that I beat the egg before adding & would use a salsa rather than ketchup.
Ris Otto must be the Danish version of Chinese fried rice.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 25, 2009 18:27:59 GMT
Fried rice is probably only second to soups for turning random leftovers into yummy meals. I love the smell when I throw a big pile of minced ginger and garlic into the oil right before the stir fry!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Sept 26, 2009 14:14:25 GMT
I once made a big lasagna for my boss' birthday party. The guests loved it, but I couldn't exactly tell them what was in it, as it was mostly composed of multi-level leftovers.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 26, 2009 19:54:05 GMT
we rarely ever have left overs. I usually cook the right amount for the two of us and if we want leftovers, we have to create them on purpose, like I did tonight for tomorrow's pie (cooked potatoes and a pork stew). or I sometimes cook more rice/pasta than necessary, in order to add to a dish for the next day.
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Post by BigIain on Sept 26, 2009 20:05:32 GMT
definately a mixer when I am just making food for myself. I recently had fish pie and chips leftover as a topping for garlic bread pizza
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2009 21:43:50 GMT
I used to do this alot late at night during my hippie days when I would have the munchies. Then,anything tasted great. I would think I came up with the world's best concoction and it would be something like baked beans and cauliflower casserole,with maybe a scrambled egg thrown in. . Pasta or rice mixed with some type of leftover meat and or vegetable happens here.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 1:12:54 GMT
Digging back through old threads I see one for Mixing leftovers which could well be included in this. A fair sized bounty of leftover food from today's Thanksgiving feast,(each household took home portions they felt confident they would eat). Some of the larger unconsumed amounts were taken down to the Ozanam Inn,a homeless shelter here in town. I fancy that tomorrow I will be nibbling on some small turkey sandwiches and leftover pumpkin and pecan pie. T. always takes one of the turkey carcasses and yes,more gumbo,this one turkey and sausage. We as a group try really hard to not waste anything. I was lusting after a large ham bone to make split pea soup with but someone else scored it. Pity that person doesn't make gumbo,I would have persuaded them to take the turkey carcass (a little tired of gumbo,whine whine...).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 6:18:53 GMT
Excessive leftovers was one of the reasons that my family stopped eating turkey while I was still quite young, plus the fact that nobody really liked it. There were four of us and no massive feast to get rid of the damned thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2010 20:31:06 GMT
Cold pork chops are really, really good. I suspect that maybe they taste even better than freshly cooked pork chops.
Cold leg of lamb is really good too, but not better than the first time it is served. Just different.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 29, 2010 21:27:40 GMT
You eat them just like that? Those are both things I'd tend to want warmed.
I roasted some chicken legs the day before yesterday (if I recall), but I deliberately made more than I needed to have cold cooked chicken for sandwiches, salads, pseudo-Asian soups with almost raw fresh vegetables and a protein...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 30, 2010 6:45:13 GMT
You are so much more honest than I, LaGatta. You refer to your soups as "pseudo-Asian", whereas I loftily dub my salads "Asian inspired". I've obviously read too many cooking magazines.
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Post by hwinpp on Jan 30, 2010 6:59:32 GMT
Oh, I love cold pork chops. In Germany you can buy them breaded, fried then cooled at practically every butcher.
Leg of lamb if not too fatty. I can only eat lamb fat when it's hot.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 30, 2010 8:01:42 GMT
Cold fried chicken.
Really rare roast beef, sliced really thin.
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Post by hwinpp on Jan 30, 2010 16:43:13 GMT
Cold roast chicken too!
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2010 15:12:48 GMT
left over "bouilli" beef in vinaigrette.
cold rice with plain yoghurt (or lime pickle for a particular someone) - obviously not just any rice and not if there is any danger the rice might have turned into a germ nursery.
potato roesti.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2010 15:49:48 GMT
Yes, I like cold steamed rice -- but I have also seen cold rice bloom into a mushroom forest in just one day.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 1, 2010 15:53:44 GMT
A friend who works as a professional chef says it is one of the most hazardous things in a kitchen as nobody suspects it. It can give an entire training seminar a mild case of food poisoning and the "runs" - not something you want to be a party to in an enclosed venue with a limited number of toilets.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 1, 2010 15:58:34 GMT
oh, yes! it has to be cooled down almost immediately and left covered in the fridge until it is eaten.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2010 18:59:38 GMT
I like reheated spaghetti with sauce even though the al dente is gone forever.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 18:23:27 GMT
I think I prefer fried chicken cold, and sometimes the pizza tastes better cold too. I also like my baked beans from a tin at room temperature, and not heated up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 18:36:31 GMT
I used to like cold fried chicken, but now I can taste the cold grease in my mouth and it does not please me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2010 17:33:14 GMT
hmm.....yes, I don't like the grease feel of the chicken either. But once in a while it's okay.
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Post by gertie on Mar 7, 2010 3:52:18 GMT
I generally don't like my left overs to look like left overs. What I mean is, I will make something new with them. Don't like to waste food. So if I had left over pork chops or fried chicken, I'd probably shred up the meat, mix with cheese and rice, and stuff some jalapenos to deep fry, for instance, or mix the chicken meat in stuffing or soup. Maybe make some cabbage rolls or spring rolls. My family loves left over turkey made into fajitas after Thanksgiving so much it is our traditional day after dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2011 20:26:14 GMT
I have generally discovered that I can eat leftovers for two days = original dish day + 2 days = 3 days total for the dish.
That's what I just did with an excellent chicken curry that I finally finished, but I would not have wanted it for a 4th day. In fact, the 3rd day is when I generally dispose of anything not completely consumed.
Sometimes things are frozen immediately and other times I may skip a day and come back to the leftover later.
I have known people who have said "I never eat leftovers. If it's not finished, I throw it away."
This is infuriating -- not just the waste but the whole philosophy of it.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 25, 2011 21:44:57 GMT
Wow, K2, synchronicity.
We also just made a 2nd meal of chicken curry and have one small meal left.
(Anything that goes into my freezer is very likely not to be eaten, but allowed to grow frost crystals until it is unrecognizable, then tossed into the trash.)
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