Leftovers

8 Oct 2012

In light of the current economic climate and the rememberance of World Wars past, there is a resurgence of interest in thrifty house-keeping.
What are your memories or recommendations for meals made from left-overs?
Mine is stew made from left-over turkey that would last for weeks after Christmas. Goodness knows why my Mum got a 20lb bird for 5 of us. LOL
But so many things can be used very simply that you might otherwise throw out. For instance, dryish cake - soaked in a sweet alcohol and dipped in egg and fried and served with icing sugar on. Nom biggrin

8 Oct 2012

Monday tea was always bubble and squeak....
Left over potatoes and veggies from Sunday lunch...

8 Oct 2012

Quote by Steve
Monday tea was always bubble and squeak....
Left over potatoes and veggies from Sunday lunch...

tonight's dinner is bubble liver and bacon we love bubble and squeak and descent liver is pennies to buy

8 Oct 2012

Quote by Lizaleanrob
Monday tea was always bubble and squeak....
Left over potatoes and veggies from Sunday lunch...

tonight's dinner is bubble liver and bacon we love bubble and squeak and descent liver is pennies to buy
Why not road kill? Much cheaper :lol2:
And my liver is descending into something far from being decent....
bolt

8 Oct 2012

I try not to think about my mum's cooking. I don't look back on it fondly - not now or then. Being an allotmenteer however, thrift is a prerequisite. I'm king of stock making after a good roast.

8 Oct 2012

Quote by DongHwan
I try not to think about my mum's cooking. I don't look back on it fondly - not now or then. Being an allotmenteer however, thrift is a prerequisite. I'm king of stock making after a good roast.

Hello, fellow Allotmenteer. biggrin

How was this year for you? Creap for me apart from the potatoes and onions.

8 Oct 2012

Anyone tried left over yorkshire puddings with vinegar and sugar, yep i know what ur thinking ewwwww but they actually taste like pancakes mmmmmmmmmm and another golden oldie tripe n onions and nope not got a chance in hell im trying it, bread n dripping on toast as well
way back when in the good old days

8 Oct 2012

Quote by flower411
I try not to think about my mum's cooking. I don't look back on it fondly - not now or then. Being an allotmenteer however, thrift is a prerequisite. I'm king of stock making after a good roast.

I once heard a television chef say that you couldn`t make decent stock with a leftover roast carcass or whatever......what a wanker !!! lol

I'm guessing he learned to cook in a college - not at his mother's side skrimping a meal together the day before pay-day. biggrin

8 Oct 2012

I leave the brassicas out of stock if it's to be kept any length of time - it tends to go a bit sulpherous otherwise. But for immediate use it works fine.

8 Oct 2012

Stuff like stews and chilli's I make in bulk and store in the freezer in cleaned plastic
Chinese takaway containers.
Cottage pies again made in bulk and stored in aluminium freezer trays.
Stock I make as and when, then freeze what I'm not going to use in the next couple of days.
Anything organic I can't re-use goes on the compost heap (egg shells, nettles, garden cuttings etc).
Leftovers from cooked meals are usually consumed by the cats. lol

Newspapers and cardboard are recycled into 'logs' for the open fire along with 'woody' cuttings from the garden (as kindling).
Tins, glass and plastic are re-cycled by the local council here.
Old clothes/shoes are donated to the Sally Army recycling bin.
About the only thing that goes in the rubbish bin here is blown light bulbs.

8 Oct 2012

Quote by Fobs
Stuff like stews and chilli's I make in bulk and store in the freezer in cleaned plastic
Chinese takaway containers.
Cottage pies again made in bulk and stored in aluminium freezer trays.
Stock I make as and when, then freeze what I'm not going to use in the next couple of days.
Anything organic I can't re-use goes on the compost heap (egg shells, nettles, garden cuttings etc).
Leftovers from cooked meals are usually consumed by the cats.
Newspapers and cardboard are recycled into 'logs' for the open fire along with 'woody' cuttings from the garden (as kindling).
Tins, glass and plastic are re-cycled by the local council here.
Old clothes/shoes are donated to the Sally Army recycling bin.
About the only thing that goes in the rubbish bin here is blown light bulbs.

We have a

As we're both avid readers of newspapers and re-cycle everything, this is a blessing.
Paddy

9 Oct 2012

Quote by GnV
Monday tea was always bubble and squeak....
Left over potatoes and veggies from Sunday lunch...

tonight's dinner is bubble liver and bacon we love bubble and squeak and liver is pennies to buy
Why not road kill? Much cheaper :lol2:
And my liver is descending into something far from being decent....
bolt

descent::::fecin spell checker :taz:

9 Oct 2012

Quote by Fobs
snip...
About the only thing that goes in the rubbish bin here is blown light bulbs.

I would have thought those are highly recyclable, being especially bad for the environment.
Every supermarket here has a light bulb recycling bin so there must be something about keeping it away from landfill.

9 Oct 2012

We rarely have any left over food, it all gets eaten smile

We compost and recycle as much as possible of all our household rubbish :)

9 Oct 2012

Quote by Paddy
Stuff like stews and chilli's I make in bulk and store in the freezer in cleaned plastic
Chinese takaway containers.
Cottage pies again made in bulk and stored in aluminium freezer trays.
Stock I make as and when, then freeze what I'm not going to use in the next couple of days.
Anything organic I can't re-use goes on the compost heap (egg shells, nettles, garden cuttings etc).
Leftovers from cooked meals are usually consumed by the cats.
Newspapers and cardboard are recycled into 'logs' for the open fire along with 'woody' cuttings from the garden (as kindling).
Tins, glass and plastic are re-cycled by the local council here.
Old clothes/shoes are donated to the Sally Army recycling bin.
About the only thing that goes in the rubbish bin here is blown light bulbs.

We have a

As we're both avid readers of newspapers and re-cycle everything, this is a blessing.
Paddy
Great minds think alike Paddy. :lol:

9 Oct 2012

Quote by GnV
snip...
About the only thing that goes in the rubbish bin here is blown light bulbs.

I would have thought those are highly recyclable, being especially bad for the environment.
Every supermarket here has a light bulb recycling bin so there must be something about keeping it away from landfill.
Not @ my local Tesco's - but it does have a 'chav' recycling center. lol

21 Oct 2012

Damn and blast! I thought this was going to be a thread about sloppy seconds......
Ahh well

21 Oct 2012

Quote by Rhea
Anyone tried left over yorkshire puddings with vinegar and sugar, yep i know what ur thinking ewwwww but they actually taste like pancakes mmmmmmmmmm and another golden oldie tripe n onions and nope not got a chance in hell im trying it, bread n dripping on toast as well
way back when in the good old days

MMMM hot toast with dripping from the sunday roast!
We used to have whole cod roes, cooked, vinegar on them and some brown bread with butter, probably not that cheap now. As a kid we also used to collect winkles from the beach and have them for sunday tea.

21 Oct 2012

I have a soup making machine, throw in anything switch it on and it chops it, cooks it and at the end of the cycle you have soup.
Having a guest house I half cook the sausages in the morning and defrost the likes of hash browns, this means I can often have a surplus at the end of the day, sausage casserole is the simplest use for the those, for the non-cheffy people just buy an Asda or Tesco jar of cheap casserole sauce and bung the sausages n stuff in it, a jar costs around 19p. I usually have cream left from breakfast for making creamed soups, I am no chef myself but it is so simple to put some nice vittels together very cheaply and having the satisfaction of not having wasted the surplus you have.
I make the obvious soups with excess mushrooms for mushroom soup, leek and potato with the spare hash browns tomato soup with the spare tinned and fresh tomatoes and some very inexpensive leeks, etc but I do like to experiment with leftovers to make other soups.
Sasha being Russian loves soup and so do the dogs smile