Cooking With Leftovers
When you refuse to waste food, the food you make gets really weird...
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Crayfish & Corn Panzanella
Leftovers from a crayfish and crab feast! I mean, we ate all the crabs.. 🙂 Now I like my panzanella salad hot so I toss it all with the...
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Pork & Quinoa Stuffed Pepper
This is pretty easy. Mix it all together and you get an excellent and fast dinner. Use whatever you have! Makes 1 big meal or two little ones....
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Chicken Avocado Salad
Sometimes, you have leftovers that would make a great chicken salad (add chicken), but sometimes, it is the chicken left over that you need to...
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Pickled Baby Carrot Toppings
Baby carrots are so stupid.. I think these came in a box with a wrap for lunch. I just ignored them for a week.. BUT, quick pickle them and you can...
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Poached Shrimp Quenelle
I took a sausage making class and we made these poached shrimp balls.. Raw shrimp blitzed up until paste-like! We made them with egg whites, but I...
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Creamy Chicken Rice Pilaf
The rest of the cream, and some of that chicken too from Half a Chicken Baked with Cream.. I added a little sour cream to give it a punch. Works...
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Half a Chicken Baked with Cream
The Cream! I don’t ever buy it, but when my sister comes to visit she leaves an entire thing of half and half in the fridge.. What to do?...
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French Fry Bean Soup
The fries are really a topping.. You crisp them up in the oven really well. Really well. Crisp, crunchy, chopped. Then you add them into the soup at...
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BBQ Chipotle Turkey Leg
I hoard condiments (never buy them though). BBQ sauce from a meal out. Chipotle salt flakes from a volunteer shift. Creamy sandwich spreads from a...
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Nutty Broccoli Pasta Sauce with Bacon
This is the broccoli from that vegetable tray. The one at parties that no one eats because they just go straight to the cheese. I’ll admit that...
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Roast Beef Sandwich
Now, I know that you don’t need a recipe to make a roast beef sandwich, but it is a classic leftover idea.. Also, this roast. So good. It can...
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Polenta Pizza
Extra Polenta! There is always polenta left over. And did you know that polenta cools to the shape of its container? Then you can top it with...
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Poached Shrimp Quenelle
I took a sausage making class and we made these poached shrimp balls.. Raw shrimp blitzed up until paste-like! We made them with egg whites, but I...
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Creamy Chicken Rice Pilaf
The rest of the cream, and some of that chicken too from Half a Chicken Baked with Cream.. I added a little sour cream to give it a punch. Works...
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Yogurt Marinated Chicken Thighs
There are these sandwich spread things, like creamy flavored dips, that come with catered lunch meat deli plates. No one spreads them on...
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Cucumber Nori Wrap
You know when you just crave sushi. In your bones. Nori sheets and soy sauce and fish and crunch. But I am trying not to eat rice. So, a question....
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News, recipes, and other links related to the importance of using leftovers...
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Talkin’ Trash: A Guide to Food Waste
Cool ideas and fun graphics on preventing food waste.. on Fix.com...
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How to Use Leftover Fish
How to Use Leftover Fish on Food52.Kedgeree and Salpicon. These are new terms for me to play with.....
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Food Recovery Challenge
Managed by the EPA, they challenge you to reduce your food waste. TAKE THE CHALLENGE. Did you know...
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Leftover Swap
A new app will let you share your leftovers with strangers. @NPR. Take a photo and share your...
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Good and Cheap
A cookbook by Leanne Brown, available online and just dripping with good recipe ideas.....
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Foodsharing.de
Got Leftovers to Share? In Germany, there’s a website for that. Article @NPR. Germany has a...
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Squash Blossom Soup
Or Crema de Flor de Calabaza… @ Kitchen Konfidence. Great way to use up the squash blossoms!...
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Carrot-Top Pesto
Don’t waste your carrot tops!! Make pesto with them… I should do this with the radishes in my...
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Hummus Varieties
I’m mostly intrigued by this beet hummus.. 21 ways to make better hummus @ Huffington Post...
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65 Healthy Meals
65 Healthy Meals you can make from Leftovers @Greatist. Lots of strange things on this list. Like...
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Lovin Spoonfuls
A food waste rescue organization in Boston! Legitimizing local food rescue. Check. It. Out. Lovin...
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Reducing Food Waste Basics
@Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This is the most important website you will ever visit....
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Creative Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers
A list of recipes @PBS.. Don’t waste your leftovers.. I want to make Leftover Stuffing...
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Waste Not: The Ugly Truth about Food Waste in America
Each year, Americans waste 33 million tons of food. 33 MILLION. Listen to the story on Science...
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USDA and EPA Launch U.S. Food Waste Challenge
A news release from June 4, 2013. “Food waste in the United States is estimated at roughly...
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