July 18, 2008
Leftovers
For me, the ultimate leftover dish has to be fried rice. I actually find it a bit *wrong* that people will cook and buy ingredients to make fried rice!
Here is my dinner from yesterday, a chicken friend rice.
The rice was leftover from Thai takeaways we ate at roleplaying on Monday. They always seem to give you more rice than you need, which was perfect for me. The chicken was leftover from a roast chicken we had weeks ago. I got Beau to shred the chicken and the meat and carcasse were both frozen for later use. Veges were various ones I had in the fridge.
I actually have 4 carcasses (2 from the lovely delichan) in our freezer right now. They are just waiting for me to have enough time at home to make stock.
Speaking of stock, when I am making my lunch or prepping dinner I have gotten into the habit of saving the "ends" ie, ends of carrots and celery I cut to fit into my lunch box, or because I don't want to eat that bit (ie leafy celery/carrot ends), ends of onion, zuchinni etc. Also the ends I cut of garlic and onion. Dodgy looking vege (eg bendy carrots). All these get put into a refrigerator bag in our freezer.
Last night I boiled my collection in water (added pepper corns and herbs) and left it "simmering" on a very low heat while I pootled around the house for a couple of hours (it wasn't even simmering much of the time). The smell was fabulous. I left it to cool overnight and then strained it this morning and added salt. This is vegetable stock and I plan to use it to make a quinoa pilaf when Neid next comes to dinner.
It feels good to make the most out of my food.
Now another leftover, using leftover pizza topping materials and stale bread I made this for my lunch on Saturday:
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This week I also made brownies and biscotti, but since they've already been documented didn't think you'd want *more* photos of them. Did you?
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