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Christmas is over and its time to use up the leftovers - I always enjoyed the bubble and squeak more than the Chistmas dinner when I was a kid. Today I have just used the last carrot, leek, and a bit of celery to make a nice sofrito to base a soup on. Added half a butternut squash and a potato, some dried herbs, chili flakes and some pearl barley from the stock cupboard. Some nice beef stock and it is now simmering away. I have some spelt and rye bread to eat with it - should keep the freezing fog at bay.

What do you do with leftovers?

What do you do with leftovers?
We keep them in the fridge for future reheating and eating.

Soups, sandwiches, salads... it depends on what's left over.

I tend to cook more than we eat per meal in order to have leftovers sometimes. :)

I can aslo thoroughly recommend curried sprouts, though probably best enjoyed if you live alone.

oh gawd *barfs* I did all that boxing day and one of them I had was basically rotten vegetables and cooking oil

*smiles and chows down trying to be polite*

My parents tend to make curries out of the leftovers from the turkey.

I tend just to make turkey sandwiches.

What do you do with leftovers?

we have leftovers all year round... we always cook too much and freeze whats left. we have a freezer full (quite literally) of frozen meals we've cooked, and much as we eat them regularly, we can never seem to make a dent in them :tongue:

today i'm going to be having some leftover turkey :) dad will be making a curry out of it soon, no doubt

we have leftovers all year round... we always cook too much and freeze whats left. we have a freezer full (quite literally) of frozen meals we've cooked, and much as we eat them regularly, we can never seem to make a dent in them :tongue:

today i'm going to be having some leftover turkey :) dad will be making a curry out of it soon, no doubt

Try making a Turkey and pasta salad (also works with leftover chicken). You'll need:

Soft-boiled pasta (not too soft, mind!)
1 tin of mandarins or pineapple pieces
cold leftover turkey or chicken, torn into bite-size pieces (you can cut it, but torn tastes better)
about 1/4 l of warm stock
3 or 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise
Salt
Pepper
mild Curry powder to taste

Mix it all together and enjoy!

Try making a Turkey and pasta salad (also works with leftover chicken). You'll need:

Soft-boiled pasta (not too soft, mind!)
1 tin of mandarins or pineapple pieces
cold leftover turkey or chicken, torn into bite-size pieces (you can cut it, but torn tastes better)
about 1/4 l of warm stock
3 or 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise
Salt
Pepper
mild Curry powder to taste

Mix it all together and enjoy!

mmmm, that does sound nice! i'm having a mini xmas lunch with it today - yorkshire puddings, a couple of sausages, some gravy, peas and sweetcorn and (of course) cold turkey. bit of a big lunch, but i'm hungry! :P

mmmm, that does sound nice! i'm having a mini xmas lunch with it today - yorkshire puddings, a couple of sausages, some gravy, peas and sweetcorn and (of course) cold turkey. bit of a big lunch, but i'm hungry! :P

It's actually even better when you mix it up and let it stand until the next day... yum.

I wish we had some turkey or chicken so I could make some of that, but we had a vegetarian christmas...

Depends on what kind of leftovers. Mom used to put out a buffet-style dinner with things like Lil' Smokies (cocktail-sized smoked sausage,) crackers, chips, lunchmeats, cookies, her cheeseball (I miss it so much,) fudge, and a bunch of other things. We'd put it away after to keep it fresh, but eat off it for about three days. We never seem to get leftovers from going to my father's mother's house, though...

What do you do with leftovers?
Soup :tongue:

We had duck this Christmas, was v. nice, and used the bones etc. to make stock for a soup containing most of the other leftovers, to be had with some French bread. And very good it was.

Leftovers is unheard of in my family. In my in-laws are another story all together...

I... Despise... Leftovers... They always taste horrid, even if the original meal was good.

Leftover ham is so easy. Sandwiches, and then, with the bone and scraps, a nice pot of beans for chili. Of course, I sent most of it home with my son.

Turkey is pretty easy, too. Cold sandwiches, hot sandwiches, and the carcass into the pot for soup along with leftover vegetables. Mashed potatoes become pancakes and the topping for turkey pie. There is no leftover stuffing.

I... Despise... Leftovers... They always taste horrid, even if the original meal was good.
You are so wrong.

Depends on what's leftover.

I'm home for the holidays now and leftovers here tend to be lunch for the nest day or two.

This week's leftover lunches included:
roast pork sandwich
sour cream meatloaf sandwich
roast pork and sour cream meatloaf soup
roast free range chicken tacos

I... Despise... Leftovers... They always taste horrid, even if the original meal was good.

Then you're doing it wrong...

roast pork and sour cream meatloaf soup

Wait, sour cream meatloaf soup? How do you fix that?

I wish we had some turkey or chicken so I could make some of that, but we had a vegetarian christmas...

:eek:why would you do that!? ;):D

happy new year, Cabra :fluffle:

I've got a 1-year-old and a wife, both have bottomless pits for stomachs, leftovers happen to other people. :(

Christmas is over and its time to use up the leftovers - I always enjoyed the bubble and squeak more than the Chistmas dinner when I was a kid. Today I have just used the last carrot, leek, and a bit of celery to make a nice sofrito to base a soup on. Added half a butternut squash and a potato, some dried herbs, chili flakes and some pearl barley from the stock cupboard. Some nice beef stock and it is now simmering away. I have some spelt and rye bread to eat with it - should keep the freezing fog at bay.

What do you do with leftovers?
what do you have for xmas dinner that generates bubble and squeak for leftovers?

what do you have for xmas dinner that generates bubble and squeak for leftovers?

errr... roast potatoes and cabbage?

we have them with xmas lunch too, though the cabbage is about as popular as sprouts

errr... roast potatoes and cabbage?

we have them with xmas lunch too, though the cabbage is about as popular as sprouts
when you say "cabbage is about as popular as sprouts" what kind of sprouts are you talking about and does that make it popular or unpopular?

potatoes, cabbage and....?

when you say "cabbage is about as popular as sprouts" what kind of sprouts are you talking about and does that make it popular or unpopular?

potatoes, cabbage and....?

brussel sprouts (http://www.producepedia.com/images/commodity/brussel_sprouts.jpg) are typically very unpopular in this country. the usual thing is that everybody has to eat at least one at xmas dinner.

and you don't need much else for bubble & squeak. the cabbage is fried with mashed potato along with any other leftovers you care to throw in there. what's the problem? :confused:

Bubble and squeak (sometimes just called bubble) is a traditional English dish made with the shallow-fried leftover vegetables from a roast dinner. The chief ingredients are potato and cabbage, but carrots, peas, brussels sprouts, and other vegetables can be added. It is traditionally served with cold meat from the Sunday roast, and pickles. Traditionally, the meat was added to the bubble and squeak itself, although nowadays the vegetarian version is more common. The cold chopped vegetables (and cold chopped meat if used) are fried in a pan together with mashed potato until the mixture is well-cooked and brown on the sides.

I've got a 1-year-old and a wife, both have bottomless pits for stomachs, leftovers happen to other people. :(

Wow, I definitely need to go to bed, on first scan I read that as "I've got a 1 year old wife"

brussel sprouts (http://www.producepedia.com/images/commodity/brussel_sprouts.jpg) are typically very unpopular in this country. the usual thing is that everybody has to eat at least one at xmas dinner.

and you don't need much else for bubble & squeak. the cabbage is fried with mashed potato along with any other leftovers you care to throw in there. what's the problem? :confused:
oh i thought the cabbage was part of the left overs.

so its christmas leftover hash. i get it.

It's actually even better when you mix it up and let it stand until the next day... yum.
Most stews, soups, sauces, or anything else with plenty of liquid are like that. The ingredients must have more time to mingle or something, but they always test richer when re-heated the next day.

One of the Christmas gifts in my family was a slow cooker. I suspect leftover stews will predominant for the next several weeks.

Wait, sour cream meatloaf soup? How do you fix that?

First night was roast pork (off little bro's farm).
Second night was a sour cream meatloaf (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Meatloaf-with-Sour-Cream-Sauce/Detail.aspx) (w/ the beef substituted with ground venison and pork, both off the farm).

Cube the butt end of the pork roast, mash up the lst slice of the sour cream meatloaf, toss in the half a can of cream of mushroom soup left in the fridge, add some vegggies, a bit of milk, some water, and a bit of beer, and simmer it all up together.

left overs are why god invented micro-waves.

for that matter, you know all those fancy recipies that have multiple stages, that each part would have been perfectly ok by itself. dollars to doughnuts how they got invented was by using leftovers, of stuff that had been made in the ways of each of the individual stages.

what do you have for xmas dinner that generates bubble and squeak for leftovers?

Potatoes, sprouts rather than cabbage, and some turkey were the usual ingredients.

Potatoes, sprouts rather than cabbage, and some turkey were the usual ingredients.

Great with a bit of stuffing in it too. And bacon.

I ended up making a sprout and prawn pizza. It wasn't the culinary triumph I had dared to hope for.

Soups, sandwiches, salads... it depends on what's left over.

I tend to cook more than we eat per meal in order to have leftovers sometimes. :)

Intentional leftovers?!?!?!? :eek:

Are you mad?



:D

:eek:why would you do that!? ;):D

happy new year, Cabra :fluffle:

Vegetarian boyfriend... I do like leftovers, but even I wouldn't cook an entire turkey for myself. ;)

Happy new year to you, too, and to Glitzi. :fluffle::fluffle::fluffle:

Intentional leftovers?!?!?!? :eek:

Are you mad?



:D

Cause it's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. :)