Cooking With Leftovers
When you refuse to waste food, the food you make gets really weird...
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Baked Eggplant & Cheese Dish
This happened because I had the largest eggplant I have ever seen in my veggie box.. We could call it Eggplant Parmesan, but it isn’t breaded...
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Bean & Egg Taquitos
Taquitos! I made these to use up some leftover beans and garden Sungold tomatoes and heavy cream before going off on a long weekend camping trip....
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Heavy Cream Sourdough Biscuits
Again, heavy cream ends up in my fridge and I have no idea what to do with it. The friends all leave, and this thing just stares at me, laughing....
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Turnip Vichyssoisse
There is a lot going on here. Fish stock made from the whole salmon we cooked. Turnips and potatoes lingering in the crisper (but no leeks). Some...
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Grilled Cheese Egg Sammies
Well, I am one person, living solo. But sometimes you end up with a whole leftover pack of hamburger buns.. What am I supposed to do with this?! Why,...
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Stuffed Zucchini Cups
It does not matter what you put in this zucchini. Really. What you got? But if you have a massive, giant, out of control zucchini that you let grow...
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Flounder Dip
I made a WHOLE FISH. Mostly because I was intrigued by how to stuff a flat fish for grilling whole. Also, I was bored (see pandemic). Alas, then I...
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Smoky Tofu Salad
TOFU! I have been trying to figure out how I like it. This, is delicious. A little smoky, a little tart, a little sweet.. Quite gorgeous. Well, it...
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Blue Cheese Chimichurri
I wanted to put something nice and fresh on my grilled steak & then I remembered the lingering almost-dead cilantro (mostly stems) I had. Oh and...
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Lemon Chickpea Soup
Talk about a pantry soup. Add whatever you want to it. With some mustard and lemon, this feels like a real recipe. Tangy and warm and full of spring,...
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Onion & Sausage Stuffed Peppers
Those Gravlax brined onions? They got fried up with sausage and cauliflower rice and stuffed in peppers.. Add cheese of course. And hope that it...
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Mini Meat Pies
A MEAT PIE! A handheld piece of savory food filled with leftovers.. Because sometimes you go skiing and end up with the odds and ends, and then you...
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Baked Eggplant & Cheese Dish
This happened because I had the largest eggplant I have ever seen in my veggie box.. We could call it Eggplant Parmesan, but it isn’t breaded...
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Bean & Egg Taquitos
Taquitos! I made these to use up some leftover beans and garden Sungold tomatoes and heavy cream before going off on a long weekend camping trip....
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Flounder Dip
I made a WHOLE FISH. Mostly because I was intrigued by how to stuff a flat fish for grilling whole. Also, I was bored (see pandemic). Alas, then I...
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Mini Meat Pies
A MEAT PIE! A handheld piece of savory food filled with leftovers.. Because sometimes you go skiing and end up with the odds and ends, and then you...
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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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