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Leftover bolognese
Leftover Bolognese Sauce Ragu, or Bolognese, was Monday night supper. After school mum or I would fry up a double pack of Sainsbury’s mince plus one bottle of Ragu sauce. Monday night meant spag bol because it was efficient. Parmesan or cheddar on top. Lots. It fitted...
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Leftover Celery Stuffing
Leftover Celery Stuffing Stuffing, like Christmas turkey, pop music and Bonfire Night, did not occur in my childhood. “Tasteless” my parents would say and I didn’t even understand what it was. What how when and why was something stuffed? It was only a Christmas day...
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Leftover celery stir-fry
Leftover celery stir fry Last weekend I was a little worried about what leftover celery recipes would show how versatile celery can be; not another cream of celery soup (though I love it) or coleslaw. Like the rest of the wealthy world I’m a cookbook junkie. Because...
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Leftover Celery Salad
Leftover celery salad Love it, hate it; celery is a backbone of many recipes because of its strong flavour. But if you’ve bought a head of celery for your Bolognese or Jambalaya, what to do with all the leftovers? If you really hate celery, you can slice and freeze...
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Leftover porridge bread
Leftover Porridge Bread My eldest brother and I share a love of baking (and eating bread), and I’ve learned a lot from him. He's bought me endless books because, chez Storr, all the best presents are rectangles. Learning that a loaf of bread requires only a ratio was...
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Leftover porridge muffins
Leftover Porridge Muffins During the 'lean years', childcare took most of my 3 figure a month salary. The nursery was necessary but so expensive. I couldn’t not work. Life was dull. It was 2008. Food prices rose every week. One night, my ex and I went on a rare night...
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Leftover porridge pancakes
Leftover Porridge Pancakes Okay, I hear that, for many of you, scraping up leftover porridge is a step too far. If it does then I suggest, gently, that you don't have to worry about money. I’m sure you budget, but you don’t panic about the 10p going in the bin. I only...
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Blood orange & lemon jellies
Home made gelatine jellies Using up leftover gelatine wasn’t the easiest of challenges. I wasn’t about to start investigating the heritage of American jelly salads, though I’m sure they’re dear to people’s hearts. Our gelatine recipe choices are sweet, fun – and...
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Fruity jelly
Leftover gelatine jelly A few weeks back, the most wonderful Laura Reduction Rader messaged me and asked if I’d like to take ownership of a packet of leaf gelatine from a recent Olio stash that she had. As a vegan, that was one leftover Laura couldn't shift and lucky...
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Candied Lemon Peel
Leftover lemon heart vinegar I started obsessing about food waste when my kids were little and I was determined to give them as much organic produce as possible. Not everyone’s priority or privilege. I got by on spending around £60 a week on food and honestly, I was...
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Lemon Heart Vinegar
Leftover lemon heart vinegar I started obsessing about food waste when my kids were little and I was determined to give them as much organic produce as possible. Not everyone’s priority or privilege. I got by on spending around £60 a week on food and honestly, I was...
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Lemon Zest Sugar
Leftover lemon zest sugar Lemon and sugar are, to my mind, the best pancake day filling. Sweet and sour, everyone can add more lemon or sugar to their taste. Simple. Minimum effort required by the cook. But what about the leftover lemon zest and juice-less fruit? What...
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Dosas, for every little leftover curry
Dosas, a love story Tomorrow is a big day for StorrCupboard: the first StorrCupboard Food Waste workshop. Quite nervous. I've been putting a lot of background work into StorrCupboard so I'm often running to chase my tail. So I’m writing this just ahead of hitting...
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Nut butter smoothie pancakes
Leftover nut butter smoothie into ... pancakes?! At the moment I'm enjoying my dinners a little too much, so I'm not hugely hungry for my brekkie. So, nut butter smoothies are a good breakfast - a banana, a huge dollop of peanut butter and loads of milk. One portion...
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Lardy tea bread
Using your leftover lard in sweet bread... Bread, sweet bread, sourdough and everything. It wasn’t – obviously – planned that I’d have three bread recipes in as many weeks. I certainly didn’t think that I’d find myself with dough-sticky hands again, making another...
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Cornflake cookies
Leftover cornflake cookies Cornflakes are a tricky leftover, I think, for one reason- if you don't want to eat them in the way that you 'should' (in a bowl, with milk), then, what? You've bought this box, this product. Now you don't have enough for a bowl of cereal...
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Leftover lard popcorn
How to use leftover lard to make popcorn It's half term here in the UK and that means hungry kids who want something to eat *now*. Healthy-ish snacks that don't rinse your bank account, are cheap and easy to smuggle into a cinema or pack into a picnic are what we all...
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Home made chips with leftover lard
Cheap as chips homemade chips with leftover lard Talking about cooking with animal fat is a bit fraught, I know. My mum’s dripping pot lived in the fridge, ready for Sunday’s roasties and Yorkshire puddings. Every Sunday she would pour another layer of hot fat,...
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Using up leftovers doesn’t have to cost you loads of cash or take forever; all StorrCupboard recipes are catagorized as “quick quick”, “right in the middle” or “lazy afternoon cooking”.
Veggie? Vegan? Omnivore? Flexitarian? Recipes for ALL of you! Meat should be *part* of your plates, not the main event. And if you buy don’t, damn well never, ever waste it.
Weird leftover? Annoying leftover? Search via ingredient and hopefully you’ll find something. Totally stuck? Email me at ann @ storrcupboard.com and I’ll be right on it.