Recipe IdeasFood champion: JoLove food? Love your leftovers as well. Here are a few ways to enjoy your leftover food.
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| | |  | Fruit smoothies
Don’t be scared to experiment with whatever fruit you have leftover. Add your fruit to a blender with a banana. You can add milk or yoghurt if you prefer. |
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 | Soup
Tinned soup can be made to go further by adding leftover vegetables, cooked rice, potatoes or pasta. | | | |
 | Vegetable stock
Make vegetable stock by adding the washed outside leaves and trimmings from vegetables to water with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes. |
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 | Chicken stock
If you are left with a chicken carcass after a roast dinner why not make a stock with it? Simply add water, salt, pepper and onions and bring to the boil and simmer for 4 hours. Stock can form the basis for soups, risottos or any number of dishes.
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 | Shepherd's pie
Use leftover mince or mince leftover meat from a roast dinner to make shepherd’s pie. | | | |
 | Rissoles
Made from mince, breadcrumbs (leftover bread) and onions. | | | |
 | Fish cakes
Use leftover mashed potato, fish or a tin of tuna. | | | |
 | Grilled steak sandwiches
Use leftover steak and caramelised onions to make some tasty sandwiches. | | | |
| Salad
Chop leftover meat and enjoy with your favourite salad. | | | |
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 | Yoghurt
Mix leftover plain yoghurt or crème fraîche with fresh or frozen fruit to make a delicious dessert. This can also be frozen. | | | |
 | Egg mayonnaise
Chop leftover hardboiled eggs and mix with some mayonnaise and a pinch of salt and pepper. Enjoy with some crusty bread. | | | |
 | Cheese omelette
Great if you have some cheese leftover. Beat eggs lightly. Melt butter in an omelette pan, pour in the eggs, stir and mix lightly untill they begin to set. Sprinkle with cheese. As the cheese begins to melt, and before the eggs get brown, flip or turn the omelette over. Continue to cook until the cheese melts. Turn omelette once. The finished omelette will be a nice yellow colour with the cheese melted. Serve immediately. | | | |
| | |  | Crusty bread
Leftover crusty bread or rolls that have become a little stale can be freshened by wrapping in foil and placing in a pre-heated oven at 250°C (450°F) for 5-10 minutes. Leave the bread in the foil to cool down and eat it straightaway. | | | |
 | Trifle
Cut leftover cake into 1-inch cubes, and layer them with prepared chocolate pudding and fresh strawberries in a large glass bowl. Top with whipped cream. | | | |
 | Bruschetta
Leftover bread can be used in the next day or two for things like homemade croutons, gourmet French toast, cheese bread or bruschetta. |
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I am sure people don't actually like throwing food out but maybe think I wish I could use this but don't know how to. << previous tip next tip >>
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