Cooking, Leftover Meals


by CHRISTINE STEENDAHL - Date: 2008-01-12 - Word Count: 464 Share This!

A New Twist on Leftovers ---------- A lot refrigerators are loaded with leftovers. While a lot of us hate to let food spoil, the only option is to use up food we didn't eat a few days previous and create dinner out of leftovers. While leftovers were once a sought after meal, unfortunately, to many family members they are no longer appetizing. However, with just a few ideas, you can create yummy meals once again merely by using leftovers. Here are some options.

Mix Your Leftover Meat Dishes with Fresh Pasta One way to overhaul a great meal out of your leftovers is to blend it with fresh ingredients. In this example, pasta works well with lots of different beef and chicken dishes. Use thin spaghetti, wide noodles, wagon wheels, spirals, you name it with your meat leftovers. Add gravy, ketchup, tomato sauce or even chili to spice up and old dish.

Vegetable Dishes with Rice- Twice as Nice If you have leftover vegetable dishes that you would like to reuse, one of the greatest ways to do so is to prepare it with rice. Whether you choose white or brown rice, you can cook an excellent vegetable dish and make it into an entirely new meal. Usually with vegetables, you have a small opportunity to use them as leftover before they become mushy. Try to keep them crisp and fresh.

Create Soups with Leftovers If you are stuck with a few meals in your refrigerator and you don't know how to use them, you can always toss them into a pot and create delicious soup. No matter if it is chicken, turkey, hamburger meat or beef, preparing savory soup out of leftovers makes sense and also is quite great.

Creating soups using leftover is extremely painless. You can generally toss in any sliced meat and chopped vegetable into some broth or cream to make an awesome tasting soup. Even old bread can be useful.

Use Leftover Fruit for Fruit Smoothies In general, many houses will have a couple leftover apples, oranges or bananas in their refrigerator. While the odd piece of fruit is not often a leftover, practically all fruit can be used to create yummy fruit smoothies. Fruit smoothies are quickly made with some milk, yogurt, fruit and a blender. Not only are they high in nutritional value, but ideal for a treat or even breakfast. Fruit smoothies are ideal for leftover fruit or even slightly over ripen fruit. Mixed with lots of other ingredients, they still taste great and won't go unused.

The next time you look deep into your refrigerator and see all the meals from the past week, don't panic, utilize them to make new meals, soups and even delicious desserts.

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