 |
 |
What Do You Do With Leftovers (Food)?
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Working. What about you?
Status:
Offline
|
|
Seriously, this is a sort of odd thread, but what DO any of you do with leftovers?
We had turkey for Thanksgiving. Ham for Christmas. Turkey for New Year's day.
We have huge amounts of leftovers. Invariably I end up throwing some of them out and then I feel wasteful. Freezing them means that they are frozen, then thrown out after I rediscover them months later.
What do you do with them? How long do you keep them? What in the heck do I do with 10 pounds of leftover turkey?
Right now I'm frying bacon and am going to make turkey, bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches (with smoked swiss) on toasted rye and wheat.
What is the "leftovers protocol" with you guys?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Status:
Offline
|
|
When you have a very creative cook, the leftovers can make an even better meal than the original. 
|
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: MacNN database error. Please refresh your browser.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Leftovers? What leftovers?
|
This is a computer-generated message and needs no signature.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Toronto, ON
Status:
Offline
|
|
I never have any, I only cook what I'm hungry enough for.
|
|
The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Theory - everything works in theory
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm not a big fan of leftovers and given that most of my leftovers come from eating out, I typically just hand the take-home box to a homeless person on the street.
Now, something like home-made spaghetti tastes yummier reheated than when fresh. Reheat it on the stove, not the microwave, pass the Tapatio sauce along with some toast and it's yummy-time!
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Paris, NY, Rome, etc
Status:
Offline
|
|
Hambones make a wicked broth. We're talking split pea soup heaven, navy bean soup, minestrone, black bean soup, etc.
Otherwise: tupperware lunch. All the dopes with sh*tty fast food or sandwiches get jealous when I whip my leftovers out. Then again, it helps to have access to a microwave.
|
Adopt-A-Yankee
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ReggieX:
I never have any, I only cook what I'm hungry enough for.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Don't usually have any for more than a day after. By then they've been eaten. Couple exceptions with turkey and large vegetables (squash for instance) which can be used for meals many days after.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: London, UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
What do you do with them? How long do you keep them? What in the heck do I do with 10 pounds of leftover turkey?
Why do you have 10 pounds of leftover turkey? Next year, cook less food. And they say Americans are wasteful....
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
Status:
Offline
|
|
Agreed with Paully, leftovers make excellent lunches for the day after. My wife insists on taking leftovers to work with her, much to the jealousy of her colleagues ( I do like cooking and am quite good at it, even if I say so myself.)
But 10 pounds of turkey leftover? That's just wasteful. How did that happen?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Toronto, ON
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Mastrap:
Agreed with Paully, leftovers make excellent lunches for the day after. My wife insists on taking leftovers to work with her, much to the jealousy of her colleagues ( I do like cooking and am quite good at it, even if I say so myself.)
Makes note to visit Mastrap and welcome him to Canada...
|
|
The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ReggieX:
Makes note to visit Mastrap and welcome him to Canada...
Let us settle in first. 
Our stuff is still in a container somewhere mid-Atlantic. Should be in Montreal on the 4th, then in TO a couple of days later. In the meantime, I am reduced to a single pot and a frying pan.
After we're set, all I can say is welcome to Roncesvalles
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
