Blurb -
We all occasionally suffer a guilty conscience about those languishing ingredients that stay untouched in the fridge or cupboard for days: the bendy carrots, the wilting salad, the foil-wrapped roast chicken, the rock-like bread and that little nugget of Cheddar?
In this new pocket bible, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall offers nifty and creative ideas to transform leftovers into irresistible meals. Hugh starts by giving practical advice for cooking on a weekly basis with leftovers in mind ? helping to save money and avoid waste ? and provides tips on how best to store your ingredients to make them last for as long as possible.
Hugh then gives handy recipe templates that can be applied to all kinds of leftover ingredients, and provides simple and flexible recipes. He shows, for instance, how you can transform leftover meat into Chilli beef noodles, Stew enchiladas, Spicy chicken salad with peanut butter dressing; surplus root vegetables into Roast root hummus, Quick lentil and parsnip curry and Beetroot and caraway seed cake; spare eggs into Hazelnut roulade and easy Macarons. He also gives ingenious ideas for Christmas leftovers, shows how to assemble a delicious meal in under ten minutes, and how to make simple store-cupboard suppers.
With more than 100 recipes, gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this is the ultimate companion for everyones kitchen ? and youll never be bored of leftovers again.
In this new pocket bible, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall offers nifty and creative ideas to transform leftovers into irresistible meals. Hugh starts by giving practical advice for cooking on a weekly basis with leftovers in mind ? helping to save money and avoid waste ? and provides tips on how best to store your ingredients to make them last for as long as possible.
Hugh then gives handy recipe templates that can be applied to all kinds of leftover ingredients, and provides simple and flexible recipes. He shows, for instance, how you can transform leftover meat into Chilli beef noodles, Stew enchiladas, Spicy chicken salad with peanut butter dressing; surplus root vegetables into Roast root hummus, Quick lentil and parsnip curry and Beetroot and caraway seed cake; spare eggs into Hazelnut roulade and easy Macarons. He also gives ingenious ideas for Christmas leftovers, shows how to assemble a delicious meal in under ten minutes, and how to make simple store-cupboard suppers.
With more than 100 recipes, gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this is the ultimate companion for everyones kitchen ? and youll never be bored of leftovers again.
Genre - cookbook
My rating - 4 stars
My review -
Another great cookbook. This one, as the title describes is based on using up leftovers instead of throwing them away. In our house this isn't really a problem - I cook for a family of 5 including two teenage boys, but I have to (and like to) cook frugally so it caught my eye on Amazon.
This book has a great ethos and has some excellent recipes. Some I wouldn't touch with a barge pole - deep fried fish bones anyone?
Other things I don't usually have as leftovers but if the recipes are good then I will make anyway - I will just make do with similar items that I have. I also think this book is great to help with 'yellow stickered' or reduced items. Yup, I now have a recipe to use with that fish I brought for 50p reduced to clear, that has sat in the freezer for two weeks or the tomatoes that I got on offer when I forgot I already had some - you know what I mean. We are actually having the quick cassoulet for dinner tonight with things I had on hand.
Great buy will be using this a lot.
This book has a great ethos and has some excellent recipes. Some I wouldn't touch with a barge pole - deep fried fish bones anyone?
Other things I don't usually have as leftovers but if the recipes are good then I will make anyway - I will just make do with similar items that I have. I also think this book is great to help with 'yellow stickered' or reduced items. Yup, I now have a recipe to use with that fish I brought for 50p reduced to clear, that has sat in the freezer for two weeks or the tomatoes that I got on offer when I forgot I already had some - you know what I mean. We are actually having the quick cassoulet for dinner tonight with things I had on hand.
Great buy will be using this a lot.
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