USING LEFTOVERS AND SUBSTITUTIONS
- is the holy grail of thrift and creativity,
- often a time saver, since part of the meal is already made
- can be the start of new and delicious homey meals,
- may not always be good for the waistline so eat less. :-)
There are things I always make too much of, for instance I
don’t think we ever finished a cheese sauce I make for cauliflower. We had company and I overestimated the cheese sauce again and I ended up with half a jug of it in the fridge. It did not come
together to serve it again. It was time to bake bread
anyway and I thought why not make a cheesy bread? That is
how it started. I replaced part of the liquid with the leftover cheese sauce in
the recipe. To be precise I used 1-1/4 cups of cheese sauce in
place of 1-1/8 cups of water. The result was a little flatter but delicately
soft bread with a slight cheese flavour. The actual bread recipe is coming
later.
here is the Cheesy Bread:
I don’t think it makes much sense to make cheese sauce for
making bread, there are other ways to make cheese bread, but it is a good example
how one can use up leftovers. Of course, there are failures too. Not long ago I made spaghetti with meatballs
and I threw in some chopped up leftover meatloaf. We ate the meatballs and pushed
the meatloaf bits aside. I will not do that again.
A while back I made too much meat sauce, I know what you are
thinking, for a Hungarian I make a lot of Italian dishes. Anyway, I wanted to
make a lasagna with the leftover meat sauce, but I had no ricotta cheese or spinach. However,
I had cream cheese and broccoli plus a half a tub of artichoke dip that also needed to be used.
here is the amazing Artichoke Broccoli Lasagna I made from leftovers and substitutions:
My lasagna recipe is here
and here is what I replaced the ricotta-spinach layer with:
8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup sour cream
1 cup parmesan cheese
1 egg yolk
1 cup finely chopped broccoli florets
1/3 cup artichoke dip from the deli
- Beat the cream with the sour cream to soften it. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to blend.
