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Food & crafts => Recipes => Topic started by: suziequeue on December 26, 2012, 07:35:03 am
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Ooops - we've got alot of food left over from yesterday's lunch.
Fortunately we've got people round today so I am hoping to make everything out of the leftovers.
I have a few recipes but what are other people's favorite recipes for dealing with leftovers?
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a festive meat loaf is good just chop lots of things together (meal and veg) place meat around the tin you use and fill - I normally have loads of gravy & baked spuds with it .....
have a nice meal
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We did a left over mash up today.
Mashed the potatoes (boiled and roast and the garlic and onions done with them), carrots (roast and boiled), roast parsnips and sprouts all together. Chopped up the meat (did two lots one pork one chicken).
Fried in a little oil and if you have a small amount you can just do that until it is crisp. I had a lot so fried then put it in the oven for 10 mins with a covering of cheese. Served with cranberry sauce, apple sauce and gravy.
Went down well with the whole family.
Dans
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Frying the leftover veg is something I do most weeks with what is left from Sunday dinner. Its like a sort of glorified bubble and squeek and I love it.
I watched Gino d'Campo make a pie with leftover turkey, ham, bread sauce etc and it looked fantastic. I am going to make one today.
http://www.itv.com/food/recipes/turkey-and-ham-pie-0 (http://www.itv.com/food/recipes/turkey-and-ham-pie-0)
Sally
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How about 'Boxing Day Soup' ?
Have never tried but heard of recently. Everything into stock pot, just covered with some veg stock, heated through and then whizzed :fc:
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The leftover meals are the best!
Use up your leftover turkey, gravy, pigs in blankets and stuffing, by frying some mushrooms, adding all the things mentioned before, a bit of water. Serve with boiled rice.
We also usually have turkey biyiani (sp?) make up a veggie curry sauce, add in the leftover turkey chopped up, serve with rice.
Or a turkey pie in white sauce with mushrooms and a little bit of bacon.
Beth
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Poultryman's Pie for left over turkey or chicken. Fry a chopped onion and some mushrooms in butter/margarine. Grill or fry some bacon or bacon pieces. Chop turkey/chicken into bite size chunks. Make a thick white sauce and stir in all the above and put the lot into an oven proof dish. Top with mashed potato and cover with grated cheese. Bake at about Gas mark 4 until heated through and lovely and brown. Serve with whatever veg you fancy (or have left over). :yum: :yum:
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Now i am hungry! :thumbsup:
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I think I like leftovers better than the original meal, I have often made posh bubble and squeak and love it Yum yum
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meals made from whatever is left over all ways taste better, as a fine wine the longer its left the better the drink - just dont leave the food to long or you end up in XXXXXXXX
can some one help -- reading the other day that people in the uk throw away £12 billion of food each year - who are these people as we worked out that we actual through out around £8 per year in waste - all our food is used for us
can someone tell where these charities/groups get there numbers from....
aand wishing you all a happy new year and all your seeds grow into something...... :excited: :wave:
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I've wondered that, anderso, until I read a letter in a magazine where a woman was saying how she had to save money. She hit on this wonderful idea to use the rest of the Sunday joint to make another dish (something like cottage pie with chopped up beef) and how the whole family loved it. Sounding like she was taking all the credit for this wonderful new idea, she said she was going to see if she could come up with some other recipes for using up food instead on binning it, and recommending that other people did the same.
I began to wonder if I was the only person in the country who could make one large chicken feed four for three days then use the carcase to make soup. ::)
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Couldn't agree more MGM. We get seven meals out of a chicken, then stock from the carcass and after that the bones get put to dry for a week in the bottom of the oven before they are ground up and composted.
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i believe the most part of that 12billion a year is thrown out by supermarkets, thanks to their useless, pointless 'sell by' and 'use by' dates.
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I'm not so sure if it's most of that - seeing what some of my friends have been chucking out, it's just unbelievable... Even some otherwise reasonably intelligent people told me that biscuits, one day after "best before" date, must not be eaten - danger of food poisoning!!!
If they only knew... that, for example, I'm still using raisins in my baking that were out of date several years ago... ;D That I've just checked a packet of "Quark" (German soft cheese) with the sell by date of 13/12 and decided it's perfectly ok and will use it in a bake tonight...
Ergh, if I'm not around after tonight's tea you'll know why! :-\
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If any of you see my FB page you will see the amount of food I get very cheaply, often 10p for each item, most is made into soups or stews that will be either eaten as a meal or used in stocks for other meals, mu husband loves to take soup to work now instead of bread, we hardly waste anything except the odd moldy thing or soggy thing, we also had loads of fruit for 10p a bag and I made some spiced fruit and froze loads to take out for bread and butter puddings, crumbles, on our porrage etc etc,,,,,,,there are lots of people who read the sell buy date then throw away....sad really. Our dogs often have mackeril or something fishy...I have a freezer full of lovely stuff !!
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If any of you see my FB page you will see the amount of food I get very cheaply, often 10p for each item, most is made into soups or stews that will be either eaten as a meal or used in stocks for other meals, mu husband loves to take soup to work now instead of bread, we hardly waste anything except the odd moldy thing or soggy thing, we also had loads of fruit for 10p a bag and I made some spiced fruit and froze loads to take out for bread and butter puddings, crumbles, on our porrage etc etc,,,,,,,there are lots of people who read the sell buy date then throw away....sad really. Our dogs often have mackeril or something fishy...I have a freezer full of lovely stuff !!
What's your FB page Sandy?
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http://www.facebook.com/SandyMaaryDavison (http://www.facebook.com/SandyMaaryDavison) I slipped when I wrote Mary........just look for me with dogs..I am just about to change my profile to dogs again...I have labs!!!!!!
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Love the lab with sunglasses :roflanim:
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They only had them on for the photo shoot ;)
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Sandy, I've just put a freind request. I'm Lesley Silvester in my other life.
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A number of supermarkets give their food that has reached its sell by date to local charities. When I used to work for the Shaftesbury Society, we would go to M&S on a Saturday at closing time and come back with crates of all sorts - only for the residents, the staff were not to take it home (depending who was on duty ;) ). A friend of mine here collects food for the Salvation army to use in their work with the homeless in this area and one or two other charities. Once she had several boxes of bananas that were still green but had to go as they'd reached their SBD. Ridiculous. Between Christmas and New Year she had loads of bread and buns and no one to take it in as they were closed for the break.
I have lots of bread and buns in my freezer ;) .
I hate food waste and it'sjust not necessary in most cases. I've opened yoghurt months after it went out of date and it's been fine. Come to that, archaeologists have found tinned food still edible after hundreds of years. We bought a freezer from my neighbour and she asked me to throw away the contents as they had been in there more than a year. We've nearly finished eating it.
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Arhhhh Lesley...I talk to you often and did not know it...I feel the love...and the fire and the wine....... :love:
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Steve, my husband used to work with the Salvation Army and used to take food around to homeless, all from places likeM&S and outdoor stuff like coats and sleeping bags...he also worked durring the Christmas period in London where they had very posh food.......We live cheaply and also have a freezer full of buns & them things I can never spell that the French have with coffee for breakfast...beginning with. q :rant:
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Croissants (phonetic - qurassons)
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:trophy: Thank you MGW of M, making your Poultry pie today.
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Thanks for that...I always struggle with that one. And of course the word for not being able to get off the toilet :-J but no need to spell that out today as I am fine and those that are not do not want to be reminded :innocent:
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:roflanim:
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:trophy: Thank you MGW of M, making your Poultry pie today.
Hope you enjoy it. :yum:
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how about a nice healthy ceaser salad, lovely.
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Me and my husband love any salad.....a nice bit or meat or fish and its our ideal meal......just need to add a bit pudding!! :innocent:
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I love salad but my OH won't touch anything that is not cooked except tomatoes, so I don't do much more than open a bag of salad leaves (unless I pick my own) and chuck in a tomato or two.
HGL, when have you chatted with me on Facebook?
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Lisa's threads I think......dose Wendy ring a bell? Sure it's you
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Aah. I remember a Wendy on Lisa's posts. I'm Lesley Silvester and I think I'm the only one who posts on hers, although there are a few of us around.
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:wave: All this talk of leftovers is making me hungry.....
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20968076 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20968076)
This made me think of this topic, time home economics was brought back into the curriculum, taught me to cook basics, sew and plan household chores and meals.
Last weeks surplus rice from a curry night was frozen and used yesterday to go with chilli which in turn was made in part using half a cup of homemade tomato soup that wasn't used up the day before, leftover chilli from last night is todays lunch, the stub end of the ham which has supplied sandwiches for OH today is going into a quiche tonight for tomorrows lunches.
i've already planned for next weeks meals and booked my shop online. I know people have very busy lives but it really only does take minimal time to do this once you've had a quick look in your freezer, fridge and cupboards.
People need to be taught/learn life skills.
mandy :pig:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20968076 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20968076)
This made me think of this topic, time home economics was brought back into the curriculum, taught me to cook basics, sew and plan household chores and meals.
Last weeks surplus rice from a curry night was frozen and used yesterday to go with chilli which in turn was made in part using half a cup of homemade tomato soup that wasn't used up the day before, leftover chilli from last night is todays lunch, the stub end of the ham which has supplied sandwiches for OH today is going into a quiche tonight for tomorrows lunches.
i've already planned for next weeks meals and booked my shop online. I know people have very busy lives but it really only does take minimal time to do this once you've had a quick look in your freezer, fridge and cupboards.
People need to be taught/learn life skills.
Mandy I'm not quite as good as you at using leftovers and I'm not very inventive but I do try to do as you have said.
I did home economics, or housecraft as it was called at my school, and I have found it invaluable. We got taught all the basics, many of which I still use today.
I think it should be a compulsory subject for both boys and girls today.
Sally
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I think it should be a compulsory subject for both boys and girls today.
Sally
True enough - but I had none of that at school, don't even have fridge or freezer, and still manage to cook and plan ahead and live with minimum waste... I think even if kids get taught at school, they might not be willing/able to apply it! It's more an attitude issue.
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Many, I still try to hang my tea towels stripe down on the line :innocent: Home economics should be what it says on the tin, how to run a home with basic stuff, so many people think they have nothing to eat but putting a simple store cupboard together gives you endless opertunities, providing you do not have fuss pots to cook for.
Luckily my husband is not fussy and would have the same meal most nights and not complain, I do try to batch cook and thats just like having a take away, I love the easy stuff to cook......Tonight I am making a pasta dish with leftover bits of nice cheese, and some ham bits, I bought some ready made mushrooms in garlic sauce a while back for 10p a tub, so some of that will go in too, wonderful flavors, all with some garlic bread. I made a small trifle from cakes I made and put in the freezer, some fruit gathered from the forest and some custard..that should be nice, I still have some bread and butter pudding left that I put loads of my 10p fruit that I spiced up and cooked with honey and cinnamon, sort of a christmas tasty bread and butter pudding and its so cheap (bread 10p as well) My daughter said she had some ginger bread and butter pudding, must try that, I bet they used Ginger jam.
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Many, I still try to hang my tea towels stripe down on the line :innocent:
OMG i thought that was just ME! ;D Your posh bread & butter puds sound scrummy. OH doesn't like it so i only get it if we're out which isn't very often!
Migth make myself a few mini ones :yum:
Mandy :pig:
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Bread and butter pudding is wonderful and less fattening than steam ones....I also used some chicken eggs I froze from when we had loads....I am going through the freezer and the hardest thing to use up are the joints of meat...I just like them roasted!! I did want to buy a Turkey crown but never got to the supermarket!!
I make enough for my husband to take to work, he usually takes soup and his work colleges are not keen on the Stilton and Cauli soup but it tastes nice, I also made a posh fish pie with Scottish smoked haddock and Scottish Salmon that again, I bought for pennies and there was sooo much, after that meal I made fish cakes for the next day!!! I go to B&M a lot and they sell all sorts of nice bits for added flavor, sometimes I wish I had my girls back to enjoy the food rather than me pigging it all up!! :innocent:
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Anyone tried a savoury bread and butter pudding? It's a good way to use up stale bread. Made just like a sweet one but layering the slices of b&b with grated cheese and chopped onion. If you have some leftover veggies you can add those. Pour over the egg/milk mix, top with grated cheese and bake. Makes a good filling dinner.
Another recipe a friend showed me for using up leftover veg: bake blind a pastry case, put a layer of sliced hard boiled eggs on the bottom and top with the leftover veg. Pour a thick cheese sauce over and bake until browned. :yum:
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I used to have a Marguerite Patten cook book when i first started keeping house and it was my bible, i lent it to a friend who'd just got married and she never returned it, there were loads of thrifty ideas in that very similar to the recipes mentioned above by MGoM.
Mandy :pig:
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I used to use my cookery book from school :innocent:
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I used to use my cookery book from school :innocent:
isn't that wierd i still have mine too, my handwritings never improved, good job i type on here! First entry in it is "Class 1N home economics September 1977 Rock Cakes" ...........and as i recall they were ;D
mandy :pig:
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I was married in 72 and that book ended up covered in marge and flour ::)
I remember making rock cakes, think the stuff I made then has been stuck in my head
forever....I then helped out in home economics in an upper school, they did so many strange things, I kept thinking most in the class needed good basic stuff, I still remember making white sauce,.......
I hate to say this but children all should learn basic cookery at school...shame its all so exam orientated now
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All this talk of using up old stuff made me realise that Ive got loads of veg in the fridge going begging as OH still doesnt fancy them. So Ive just sat at the kitchen table and chopped up loads od swede, turnip, carrots onion, celery and potato, popped them into the pressure cooker with stock cubes and water. Loads of veggie soup for me next week. Im also going to boil up the sprouts Ive still got, along with potatoes, carrots and parsnips (and maybe a few others) to make a huge bubble and squeak to go with our roast pork. OH will not be able to eat vast amounts of green veggies any more as they contain vitamin K, but a few a couple of times a week will be OK. We still havent had out Christmas dinner, but we will have to have it soon as I want the bones and bits for turkey soup as Ive run out now and its my absolute favourite.