Leftover Index

I have big hopes for the Leftover Index, but so far it’s been neglected. Essentially it is reserved for posts that grapple with useful ideas that emerge from fridge leftovers. Suggestions welcome.

Gluten-free breadcrumbs

30 April 2012

A long time ago when I started this blog, I had intended to write more posts about what to do with leftovers. I even have a category titled “The Leftover Index” just for this purpose. Sadly, though, I passed over posts about leftovers for newer, fresher topics. My bad. Leftovers are a crucial way to [...]

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Chicken Soup to Conquer the World (or at least a cold)

14 March 2011

It happens to the best of us. One day, you’re proudly living up to resolutions you set early in the year—you know the ones—to exercise regularly, drink less coffee, cook more, and stay on top of work. Then you wake up with the faintest scratchy throat. It proceeds into a full-blown, real-world cold, the kind [...]

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Sandwiching in Leftovers

10 December 2010

Why would anyone call anything a garbage salad? A garbage salad isn’t made up of garbage at all, but rather leftovers, those bits and bobs preserved in deli containers in the fridge. It tends to be a reocccuring component in a restaurant’s family meal. Sometimes, it came together like this: 3:00 p.m. “Adam, what’s for [...]

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Weekday Braised Cabbage

2 November 2010

Although fall is well underway, the first frost of the year is the clearest indication that summer cooking is really, truly over. Even though I still have a few cherry tomatoes on the counter from last weekend’s trip to the Madison farmers market, they seem at odds with the rest of the my produce—three unidentified [...]

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A Salad Worth Grilling For

2 July 2010

I had my doubts about the salad. My mom had ripped it out of a free real estate magazine and placed it in her ideas binder. But the recipe was visibly endorsed (she had scrawled “Yummy!” across the photo). At first, the ingredients didn’t seem all that unusual. Corn, red onion, red bell pepper, and [...]

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A Tribute to Curly Parsley, Part Two

25 May 2010

Yesterday, I made a quiche. This won’t be a post about the quiche—which was good, but nothing out of the ordinary. It was, however, very green. This was due in part to a good dose of curly parsley. Its color also came from the addition of leftover roasted asparagus spears. Yes, the quiche made for [...]

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A Tribute to Curly Parsley

24 May 2010

Serving leftover foods ingeniously is always a problem. So begins one of the sections in Martha Meade’s Modern Meal Maker. And while I’d be lying if I said I never had to purge the fridge of odd bits of leftover pasta, vegetables or meat that never quite made it to round two, I love leftovers. [...]

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