Waste Not Want Not
When I go shopping I always have a mind as to what I can get out of the ingredients I have or which I am about to buy so that I can get the maximum amount of meals out of them, even the left overs. I have another chicken to cook; I already have one chicken carcass and the other one will join it to make a good batch of chicken stock for soup during the week and some of the stock will also be frozen to be used at a future date. Think lush food stews and any flavour soup you want to make. I have also just been and bought a small piece of brisket. Any left overs (if there are enough) could well go to another hot meal in this weather [it is perishing here in Peterborough at the time of typing this], initially, and then a beef stir fry or even sandwiches. My mum used to mince any left over beef in a gravy and then serve that as the "meat" to go with veggies which used to stretch what she had available to her. The left over meat from the chicken can also go into ...