Recycled dinners

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melissa-dallas

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The partners pay for our office of 23 to order out for lunch once a month for that month's birthdays. The August girl picked Pappadeaux yesterday. I was in the kitchen late in the afternoon & there were tons of sauces & condiments in containers left over. Stuck them in a bag and took them home. Stopped & bought both cooked & raw shrimp. Last night was cold shrimp with cocktail sauce and lemon. Tonight was scampi-style shrimp sauteed in lemon garlic butter that must have been meant to go with a few of the entrees. Both were good. It would have been a shame for all that to be thrown away...not to mention, gave me ideas in what tends to be my uninspired time of the year cooking-wise.

 
Gotta love the deja food....

we don't do left overs in our hours.

I'm thinking that your "found food" is in the same category.

It's all in the name..... reinvented, re purposed, deja....all better than "left-over"!

 
"Mom calls them Planned-overs!" OK, I;m dating myself, but it's great that those ingredients didn't

go to waste. I was taught by the Irish nuns that it is a sin to waste food. I don't know about sin, but food waste is a huge contributor to greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Any time you can make a meal out of something that might have been thrown away, you're saving more than money.

 
I've gotten very, very good at repurposing little bits and bobs of food, and

I am ashamed at how much food I've wasted in the past.

 
good job! we have donuts on Tue and Bagels on Th. always have leftover pineapple cream cheese

spread on bagel day. I take it home and put it into coffee cake that calls for cream cheese.

and a few weeks ago I brought in some chicken adobo for lunch for the girls and I couldn't stand dumping out all that nice adobo broth leftover, so I refrigerated it and the next day I made a big pot of northern beans with it and a smoked turkey wing. It is great---in the freezer waiting for the next really cool day(soon) and I'll feed the girls again.

 
Oooh, Something I'd forgotten with donuts. My mom used to buy leftover donuts

at the end of the day from our favorite bakery when we were kids-they put them in bags & reduced them. She'd warm them in butter in a skillet the next morning for breakfast. The glaze would caramelize-cinnamon rolls were especially good done that way.

 
We had our own cafeteria at the company I worked at for many years and the cooks did use the

leftover donuts and muffins not sold at breakfast in their fabulous bread pudding. I loved the custard sauce they poured over it too.

 
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