Never a leftover, leftover

Dried Mushrooms

by Ann Storr | May 12, 2019 | Lots of little leftovers, Main meal, Midweek recipes, Recipes, Soft Vegetables, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian recipes

Zero-waste home dried mushrooms A couple of years ago, I spent too much money on veg in a farm shop. This is not unusual. A barbecue for all fifteen members of the Storr clan was needed; about half of the adults insist on vegetables (the other half seem to find them...

Mushroom Ragout

by Ann Storr | May 10, 2019 | Lots of little leftovers, Main meal, Midweek recipes, Recipes, Soft Vegetables, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian recipes

Leftover Mushroom Ragout Mushrooms are where lots of us head for a meat-free feast. This mushroom ragout is perfect for any cold damp evenings. Polenta – a word. If you can, avoid the quick cook. Unless you’re going to cook loads of polenta, then it’s a false economy....

Leftover Mushrooms with Scrambled Eggs

by Ann Storr | May 8, 2019 | Breakfast, Cooking with kids, healthy lunch, Lots of little leftovers, Main meal, Midweek recipes, One pot meals, Quick Quick, Recipes, Skill, Soft Vegetables, Vegetarian recipes

Leftover mushrooms 90% of the mushrooms we eat in the world are good old button mushrooms. Cheap, easy to cultivate all year round, a nice little package. They’re the 3rd most chosen veg, after potatoes and tomatoes. So why, then, when I was at Wellness HQ in...

Leftover Veg Fritti

by Ann Storr | May 4, 2019 | Lazy afternoon cooking, Leftover crushing snacks, Lots of little leftovers, Main meal, Recipes, Sad fruit, Soft Vegetables, Vegetarian recipes

Leftover green bean fritti Deep frying used to terrify me. Tracey Barlow setting the house on fire. 1990s fat worries. Public safety films. My ex-husband taught me the ways of deep frying; he grew up with home-made scotch eggs and battered courgettes. Everything’s...

Leftover Green Beans with Soy Pork

by Ann Storr | May 2, 2019 | Leftover meat, Little bit of meat, Lots of little leftovers, Midweek recipes, Quick Quick, Recipes, Soft Vegetables

Leftover Green Beans with Soy Pork This Chinese recipe for green bean stir fry shows one of the food rules I like to teach: pork and green stuff work well together. Every culture pairs them (bacon and cabbage! Ham and peas! Frisee lettuce and lardons!). Sweet and/or...

Leftover Green Beans with Pasta and Pesto

by Ann Storr | Apr 30, 2019 | Cooking with kids, Half a jar, healthy lunch, Lots of little leftovers, Main meal, One pot meals, Quick Quick, Recipes, Skill, Soft Vegetables, Vegan Recipes, Vegetarian recipes

I love green beans but they are a problematic veggie. We’re so used to having them week in and out when, really, they need a lot of warmth to grow. We don’t have a lot of warmth in the UK. So, if you’re going to be buying a packet of green beans that have been flown...

Leftover sausage and bacon stuffed potatoes

by Ann Storr | Apr 28, 2019 | Dodgy Dairy, Lazy afternoon cooking, Leftover meat, Little bit of meat, Lots of little leftovers, Main meal, Midweek recipes, Recipes

Leftover bacon and sausage chowder My friend Chloe scooped out the middle of potatoes in her aunt's Harringey kitchen, scorching her fingers whilst a bemused bunch of her Italian friends watched. Chloe was living in Italy and a group of mates had come over for New...

Leftover sausage and bacon chowder

by Ann Storr | Apr 28, 2019 | Lazy afternoon cooking, Leftover meat, Little bit of meat, Lots of little leftovers, Midweek recipes, Recipes

Leftover bacon and sausage chowder What angel first paired smokey food and milk? Comfort food of the highest order. Chowder, an American soup from the east coast, has hundreds of iterations (I once sat with a cookbook devoted to chowder. Totally ignored the friend...

Leftover sausage and bacon wraps

by Ann Storr | Apr 24, 2019 | Leftover meat, Little bit of meat, Lots of little leftovers, Quick Quick, Recipes, Skill

Leftover sausage and bacon wraps At home we're trying this whole "don't just eat it because it's there" thing. Not easy when it's so easy just to eat those last two sausages, last rasher of bacon, just sitting there, just in reach, so easy to just eat them ... but we...

Leftover Easter Chocolate Eton Mess

by Ann Storr | Apr 21, 2019 | Dodgy Dairy, Lazy afternoon cooking, Leftover baking, Lots of little leftovers, Puddings, Recipes, Skill

Make Eton Mess with leftover Easter eggs My mum makes amazing meringues. I do not. This is my gift to you! Meringues aren't the easiest thing to make. I have struggled. The egg whites to perfect stiff peaks, and then a little sugar and a little more and a little more...