Left Overs-a different appproach

Today I decided to try something new…last night we had dinner guests and there were lots of left overs. You know what it’s like, there’s always too much food to feed the guests on the night, but always too little to make a complete meal from for the next day…So you end up mixing and matching odd combinations of things that you wouldn’t dream of eating together normally.
Like chicken with fish…when is it suddenly okay to be mixing the two? It makes an odd taste really.

Well, we had a roast chicken with mash potatoes, and various other vegetables done in various other ways…and yorkshire puddings with gravy.

The next day instead of just re-heating stuff I took the yorkshire puddings and filled them with icecream, leaving them in the freezer for a while to harden. I decorated the tops with left over soggy broccoli-just to give them some colour.

Then I took the chicken carcass and de-boned it, keeping the bones and throwing away the meat. I put the bones in a casserole dish full of milk and let it boil continuously for nearly an hour in the oven. Then I added the left over mash potato and stirred in some noodles for extra texture.

Last but not least, I took the flowers that the guests had brought for us (that were now looking a bit droopy in their vase by the window sill) dipped them in batter, and deep fried them along with the left-over leaks. They were very crunchy and went well with cranberry sauce.

So there you go folks! No need to be boring in the kitchen when it concerns surplus food from the night before.

After all, we managed to concoct a dish of carb-and-bone-stew, with deepfried unforseen vegetables accompanied with delicious cranberry sauce. This was followed by desert A la broccoli de la creme de la creme. One could have completed the meal by following this by coffee and liquer, but my dining guests seemed to have had enough when the dessert arrived.

Bon Appetite!
Chef de Probable Sushi