Roast Chicken and Vegetable Soup

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Roast chicken is probably one of my favorite things to cook. It’s simple, involves relatively little fuss, and is absolutely delicious. The only problem is that I always like to cook a lot of root vegetables with my chicken, or there’s simply too much chicken to eat in one sitting. This  recipe is perfect for [...]

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Leftover Meatball Lasagne

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I know, I know. Rarely does anyone have leftover meatballs. And after all the effort mixing, rolling and cooking – why wouldn’t you just start with ground meat for a lasagne? Because you won’t believe how great meatball lasagne is until you’ve tried it.

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Leftover bagels = Instant snack!

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If you’re anything like me, you’ll buy a 1/2 dozen bagels in the morning with grand ideas of eating them all before they get stale. If you’re anything like me, there’s always 1 or 2 bagels (or – shudder – more) that don’t make the cut.  

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That vicious food cycle.

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Bon Appetit has a few good recipes (with some uses for their leftovers) inspired by this xkcd comic. 

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Spinach Pie, reinvented to use your leftover vegetables.

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This is one of those examples where substitution really makes a big difference in making sure you’re using what you have. For this recipe, I had the following ingredients: chicken breast, eggplant, zucchini, feta and some phyllo that had been defrosted to make spanakopita 2 weeks ago. I also had some fresh spinach in the fridge, [...]

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Curried lentil-ish soup.

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This cooked twice recipe was borne out of a quick lentil soup I made the day after an evening of indian takeout and a bottle of pinot noir. The result of the evening was a 14 hour sleep coming out of 2 weeks of feeling like I was about to die of flu. Highly recommended [...]

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Using the whole cauliflower.

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As a great example of what cooking twice is all about, Edward Schneider recently wrote a post on New York Times’ blog Diner’s Journal about keeping the cauliflower leaves and stalk – and using them as much as a week later to supplement a leftover butternut squash curry to make an asian stir fry. Check [...]

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