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Post by lagatta on Mar 26, 2011 13:10:31 GMT
Once again roasted several chicken legs - am making a rice with some of my sambal from Amsterdam, sautéed vegetables (onion, stem celery, mushrooms) and minced chicken - and yes, I'm eating some of that for breakfast.
I have to be more vigilant about throwing little covered bits of food out before they foster new life forms. But I can't imagine never eating leftovers. I like to cook, but one does not always have the time to prepare a meal from scratch, and in general I hate premade food from the shops; too expensive for the dubious quality, too much salt and yet insipid. There are notable exceptions - most of them pricy treats.
Sometimes I buy a bbqed duck from a Sino-Vietnamese shop nearby, but it will inevitably produce a couple of days' worth of leftovers even after sharing some of it with a friend. And great bones for stock.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2011 19:24:24 GMT
I would very much approve if restaurants admitted or even boasted of using leftovers from time to time.
"today's special: Dish C made with some of yesterday's Dish A and a tiny bit of Dish B, with a few new ingredients added"
It would seem both more ethical and less wasteful.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 27, 2011 1:47:28 GMT
The bones from the roasted chicken legs are simmering in a crockpot along with some fresh bones and some vegetables. If I want to make a meal from the boullion, I'll add some of the roasted chicken meat and more vegetables. Don't think this can even be considered leftovers.
I have a cold. This will be very good medicine.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 27, 2011 1:51:30 GMT
I would very much approve if restaurants admitted or even boasted of using leftovers from time to time. "today's special: Dish C made with some of yesterday's Dish A and a tiny bit of Dish B, with a few new ingredients added" It would seem both more ethical and less wasteful. Isn't that called "soupe du jour"?
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Post by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011 5:05:22 GMT
I'm sure we've stayed in many hotels where the leftovers from dinner seem to appear in a slightly different form on the breakfast buffet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 5:37:45 GMT
Yes, but it is never said explicitly.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 21:53:01 GMT
Tonight I recycled part of my Christmas leg of lamb with tagliatelli and mushroom gravy. It was excellent.
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Post by htmb on Dec 26, 2012 22:41:51 GMT
Interesting tablecloth, too.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 27, 2012 1:18:16 GMT
It's the Christmas Batik Lizard!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 14:37:44 GMT
We just finished the leftovers from Thanksgiving.
A wonderful smoked wild turkey gumbo was made from two carcasses.
And, a split pea soup from a huge ham bone.
I had a few turnips left from my dish and replicated another turnip au gratin supplemented with some potatoes.
Nothing went to waste. YAY!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2018 19:09:06 GMT
Tonight I had a case of bad leftovers.
"It wasn't very good the first time and it hasn't improved."
So I did something I almost never do -- I threw it all away. I feel better now.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 30, 2018 20:00:48 GMT
The year I lived with my grandparents, I really admired my grandmother's skill at making excellent things out of leftovers. She would screw the meat grinder onto the edge of the kitchen table and we would spend a delightful 15 minutes grinding up the leftover pork chops, steak, ham hock, along with an onion and stale bread, also a few sprigs of parsley and maybe some fresh tarragon. Then she would put an egg or two into the bowl, salt and pepper, mix it all up and make patties to fry in butter out of the contents. The result was some of the best lunches ever.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 30, 2018 23:20:52 GMT
My grandmother mostly used the grinder to turn leftover ham or roast beef into sandwich spreads. Her economical way with the leftover egg wash and bread crumbs from making cutlets was to add another egg to the leftover stuff and fry it at the end to serve alongside the cutlets. Guess which was the more popular.
I made a good leftover thing out of a failed dish night before last. I'd been wanted old fashioned pork chops sort of stewed down in gravy. But the chops were too lean, so rather hard and disappointing even after long cooking. The next day I took the chops out & ran them through the food processor until they were the exact texture of carnitas. Put it back in the gravy, heated it up and had very nice tacos.
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Post by rikita on Nov 4, 2018 15:52:25 GMT
some soups taste better when warmed up, or salads when they had some time to really mix and soak ... also, christmas goose or similar dishes often taste best the next day, when you cut the leftover meat into little pieces and fry it together with the leftover potatoes, red cabbage and gravy ...
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Post by Kimby on Nov 4, 2018 15:55:45 GMT
Chili NEEDS to stew in its own juices for a day or so (in the fridge) to achieve maximum umami.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 4, 2018 16:09:31 GMT
Yes, chili is always better the second day although it is impossible not to eat some of it the first day.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 4, 2018 16:25:51 GMT
Chili NEEDS to stew in its own juices for a day or so (in the fridge) to achieve maximum umami. All stews, curries etc are better the following day.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 4, 2018 16:29:19 GMT
Yet there are some people who WILL NOT EAT LEFTOVERS. (Glad I’m not married to one of them!)
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 4, 2018 17:35:26 GMT
I feel like slapping those people whenever they say that, but so far I have restrained myself.
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Post by mich64 on Nov 4, 2018 19:16:21 GMT
I really never used to have leftovers but I have been purposely making meals the day before my husband has a shift so he can have something to heat up for his lunch and supper during his shift. It also gives me something to warm up. I was getting tired of soup or salad when on my own. Friday I put a rather large ham in the slow cooker and had some for supper Friday night and will have some tonight along with a cabbage roll leftover from my meal out last evening.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 4, 2018 19:26:15 GMT
Mich, you are an absolute star if you managed to cook in the past without having leftovers. There are more than a billion people on the planet trying to learn how to do that.
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Post by rikita on Nov 4, 2018 20:01:47 GMT
there was a time when i rarely had leftovers, because i just kept eating until it was gone. these days i don't, and i think it is better for me (and i learned that planning on eating leftovers helps my portion control - much easier to stop eating that tasty dish when you know you'll get some more of it tomorrow) ...
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Post by mich64 on Nov 4, 2018 20:13:28 GMT
I have been able to do it for years, I really only have leftovers when we have take out food because they give you too much food.
I am now trying to properly balance these larger meals so the leftovers I create get consumed, it is a challenge! For example the ham I did on Friday, too big! I will be cutting a lot of it into cubes and will have to put into the freezer and I will use for omelettes and salads. I do not have much freezer space so I will really have to take this into account. I often make a spaghetti sauce enough for 2 days now, that one is an easy one for my husband to warm up at work and can also reheat if they get a call during meal time. If he takes sausage to put on the BBQ at work, I get him to cook an extra 2 and bring home and we have one each the next morning with eggs for breakfast.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 4, 2018 20:39:10 GMT
We had some friends round for a meal on Friday. Both are vegetarian so I made a full on Arabic meze, obviously without the meat dishes. As usual, I made too much, so we've been eating it still until tonight. But normally I don't tend to eat leftovers. There are as mentioned dishes that taste better the second day, but then I don't make them to be eaten that day anyway. I don't eat normal leftovers because I don't like them, I just prefer something different to eat.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 4, 2018 23:12:56 GMT
The key to “leftover love” is to avoid serving something the next day after it was originally served.
Put it in the fridge and leave it there for a couple days while you eat other meals, then serve it. Or divide it into meal sized portions and freeze in separate containers to bring out at later dates when everyone has forgotten it’s leftovers.
It’s great having ready-made meals to serve up when you’ve had a busy day and don’t feel like cooking from scratch, or ordering a pizza.
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