…some of you may also have some turkey meat lurking in your deep freeze, or a carcass if you’re lucky…
Category: Leftovers
Pea Soup
I remember we’d dry our rain-wet hair and crowd around the dining table. Snuggled round a small, circular table, elbows touching, necks down plunging spoons into the golden, lava-hot, gloopy, yellow split pea soup we’d share our morning’s routines.
Easy Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie: Comfort food, easy to make using roast beef leftovers. Easy Cottage Pie.
Be Inventive
I was going to be away from home for a week and I needed to make sure there was nothing left in the fridge that would turn before I got back. I didn’t want to have to face the prospect of arriving from holiday to find I had a smelly fridge that needed cleaning out. There are times when foraging in…
Shepherd’s Pie
Shepherd’s Pie, baked beans and ketchup – Oh my God! Could food get any more comforting?! I remember as a child I would mix it all together so that every spoonful was a mashed-potatoey, mince-meaty, ketchup-tangy mouthful. And then came the correction; it’s only Shepherd’s Pie if made with real shepherds – or at least…
Kedgeree – a bit like Paella but curried!
Before any of you ask, this was not a student creation from my University days gone by! Kedgeree is at its most basic, a dish consisting of boiled rice, flaked fish, curry powder and hard boiled eggs. It is thought to have originated from an Indian rice and bean/lentil dish called Khichri, and widely believed…
Leftovers
As I savour the last bite of my Pesto Chicken Quesadilla with its melted cheese oozing around white chicken breast pieces, I look back at an inspired menu where the leftovers played the starring role. After Sunday’s lamb roast I could not face red meat again on Monday. There is something about lamb that even…
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