Leftovers

[spikesgirl58]

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers.  The original meal has never been found.  -Calvin Trillian( b. 1935

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[kajicarter]

Like others have said, it varies. Soups will usually get frozen and come back -- most of my soup recipes make quite a bit and I don't tend to make soup for lunch. Casseroles generally get eaten at lunch. Cooked meats (particularly ham and chicken) get turned into something else.

Can I steal your icon if I can remember how? I don't post a lot in here any more, but I don't have a good one for cooking posts.

[spikesgirl58]

Absolutely steal my icon. If you need help, let me know!

[andystarr]

We don't normally freeze leftovers. We do a lot of batch cooking over the weekend then make one or two meals out of that during the week. We'll either eat the leftovers as is or rehash them into something else. Chili is a good example of this. We make a lot so we can eat it as is, or as chili mac, or in omelettes. We try to make things that can go in a bunch of different things. Also, if we have left over veg or beans from a recipe, we'll throw that into a frittata or omelette.

[spikesgirl58]

Our chef instructor used to do this. He'd cook like crazy on the weekend so he didn't have to cook during the week. Except that he did, every day, all day...

[blackdecember8]

my hubby wont touch leftovers aside from something like a holiday turkey or ham, or a meal that cooks in the crock pot and tastes better when it sits overnight and gets served the next day. i find that frustrating because after a busy workday i often dont want to come home and cook a gourmet meal. and even if i do actually feel like bothering, i like to cook enough to last another whole meal for the nights i dont, or at least to have a lunch portion or two. i try not to let food we cook go to waste, but usually if i see something doesnt get eaten after a few days i will toss it.

[the_physicist]

mostly my left overs can be curried. so they get made into curry. then the left overs of curry get made into curry. and those might go into the freezer. the original curry has probably never been found XD .

[spikesgirl58]

Again, I am ashamed to admit I never thought about a curry with leftovers!

Sigh...

[the_physicist]

Well, it might depend what your left-overs are. I admit I've never curried a lasagne ;) . But so much veg often gets left over, or even potatoes... and you can just throw it all together with a few extra ingredients and voila - curry!

and now i'm going to have to have curry for dinner. there is no way around it. XD

[spikesgirl58]

Mmm curry lasagne... now you have me thinking!

[themouseketeer]

Sauces like pasta sauces get additional veggies added to them to make them different to the last time. And then served over rice instead of pasta.

If I can get hubbie to eat them. He's fine if I deliberately make the sauce the day before I plan on using it, but doesn't like it if it is 'leftover' Purely psychological. And annoying.

Personally? Leftovers = lunch.

My mum had an Indian friend who moved to the UK as an adult and discovered the concept of the sandwich. So she put *anything* leftover into a sandwich. It's amazing what you can put between two slices of bread if you don't restrict your thinking - fried curried brussel sprouts sandwiches were a particularly tasty surprise!

[spikesgirl58]

We've done leftovers for lunch for a long time, but as of late, there seems to be more food than there are need for lunches. I don't like tossing stuff.

This is silly, but I never thought to put pasta sauce of rice - talk about a d'oh moment!

Thanks!

[the_physicist]

the sandwich shop near my work that feeds like everyone in my building specialises in baguettes filled with curried ingredients. depending on the texture of your curry that might not work for sandwiches, but you can definitely have freshly made tikka masala baguettes.

[spikesgirl58]

Oh my lord, that sounds good!