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Here's my favourite left overs recipe (I didn't know you need recipes for using up left overs)

Leftover Fritters.

1 cup of any leftover vegetables or meat, chopped up.
1 chopped raw onion.
1 slice of white bread, dampened with milk and a splash of boiling water.
1 large egg lightly beaten.
Salt, pepper, chilli or any other seasoning.

Mix it all up together (the bread disintegrates into the mixture) and fry tablespoons of the mixture in shallow oil to make small patties. Serve with sauce or chutney of choice.

Amazingly tasty.

Leftovers go in an omelette, spiced-up with a few chilli flakes, and sprinkled with chopped parsley to 'posh' it up a bit!

I always buy a big pack of sausages so I can make this.

4 good quality cooked sausage, I use Cumberland
2 large eating apples
tin of chopped tomatoes
1 onion roughly chopped.

gently soften the onions in a little butter (or oil), thickly slice the sausages and add to the pan with the tomatoes, peel core and cut the apples into 8 and add to the pan. Cook until the apples are softened.

Serve with paste or rice.

Makes 2 large servings

I've just borrowed this book from our (lovely) library and would buy it for the very helpful advice alone. It's the sort of book new cooks ought to be given because it talks a lot of sense about kitchen management which seems to get lost or overlooked by most other cookbooks.

I like to make a curry or a risotto with my leftovers.

I also like to to freeze any leftovers and thus have an easy meal at a later date.

Leftovers go into pasta dishes, curries, soups, and hashes. We genuinely waste practically no food at all.

My Nanny used to make Rissoles using leftover mash and veg, just add mashed chickpeas and mixed ground nuts and and egg. roll in flour and shape - delicious fried with an egg! I make these at least once a week - inexpensive and nutritious

Left over mash and veg I fry up the next daynfor bubble and squeak. Delish

I use left over bread to make bread pudding.

Left overs ???

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My favourite leftover pork recipe:

Chop about 8oz cold cooked pork very finely (in a processer is best)
Gently fry about a teaspoon of finely chopped onion in 3/4 oz of margarine or butter until soft.
Stir in 1oz flour, and add around 5 fl oz of stock. Heat, stirring, until smooth and thick.
Add the chopped pork and half a teaspoon of dried sage (or try other herbs of your choice) and salt and pepper to taste.
Stir well and turn out into a bowl to cool.
When cold roll into balls and coat with egg and breadcrumbs. Fry in hot oil till golden brown and crisp, and drain on kitchen paper.

For the more calorie conscious, the egg and crumb can be omitted, and the pork balls can be brushed with a little olive oil and baked on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper for around 30-40 minutes at Gas Mk 5 / 375° F / 190° C.

Exactly what I was thinking Nina! When our DSs were small we had 'Daddy dustbin' for anything they didn't finish and now we have 'Grandad dustbin'! Because Grandad 'helped' the 18 month old he now thinks he should eat off everyone else's plate! He is happy to share his own too.

I love making fishcakes with leftover mashed potato. Just mix the potato with tinned tuna or smoked mackerel and add some spring onions and pepper. Shape into cakes and chill until ready to cook. Roll the cakes in some flour, dip into beaten egg then roll in breadcrumbs and fry in oil until brown and crispy. Serve with slice of lemon and/or horseradish sauce and a nice crisp salad. Simple!

This is one the GC love and they don't realise there's cabbage in it.

To use up that leftover mash and that stray onion and that quarter of cabbage and any scraps of cheese in the fridge, and don't be too fussy about quantities.

Slice and steam (or boil) the cabbage and onion (together is fine)
Mash it all together with leftover potatoes, and some butter and milk.
Slice a tin of corned beef, put in the bottom of an oven-proof dish.
Spoon the mashed stuff on top.
Grate leftover cheese and spread lavishly on top.
Pop in oven till cheese is golden and bubbly.

Serve with leftover beetroot.

Roast dinner soup. Blend leftover meat, roasties, mash, carrots, greens, a little stuffing, gravy and add water or stock to fill to the limit in the blender, season if necessary. Makes a lovely soup with lots of flavour.

Apart from bubble and squeak with cold meat and leftover gravy? (Monday's staple).

If there is chicken or other meat left over we have a stir-fry - it is usually on a Tuesday when there are a few mushrooms, peppers, the odd courgette, thinly sliced carrot, shredded cabbage or any other veg left over in the veg drawer in the fridge. Sometimes we buy make Nasi Goreng paste and stir that in, or a good shake of 7 spice powder, sometimes with rice (freshly cooked as I don't like using leftover rice) or noodles.
One of our favourite dinners.

If there is chicken or other meat left over we have a stir-fry - it is usually on a Tuesday when there are a few mushrooms, peppers, the odd courgette, thinly sliced carrot, shredded cabbage or any other veg left over in the veg drawer in the fridge. Sometimes we buy make blush Nasi Goreng paste and stir that in, or a good shake of 7 spice powder, sometimes with rice (freshly cooked as I don't like using leftover rice) or noodles.
One of our favourite dinners.

I forgot to add the chopped onion and garlic!

I have a large tub of yogurt in the fridge which I keep ignoring, so I'm going to try making the lemon and yogurt pudding cake.

I just put anything in an omlette I have left over

Any left over veg in this house is popped in the freezer until I have enough to make a soup. Anything goes, and it's created some really interesting concoctions. I just add water and a stock cube, simmer for a while and blend it

With meal planning and careful shopping, I don't really have much left over food. But what there is I use to make soups, stir frys or pasta sauce.

To the soups I usually add small pasta shapes such as conchigliette, or small dumplings to make it more filling.
I also add veg such as mushrooms or broad beans to a basic carbonara pasta to use them up.

If you have the time to make pastry, then small amounts of meat/gravy/sauce/veg can be made into tasty pies, chicken and leek is a favourite here.

A great winter dish of course is cottage pie, a real comfort dish in which all sorts of left overs can be hidden

yummy soups

Pie - so many things are delicious when wrapped in lovely pastry. Any leftover stew, chilli con carne, bean casserole, beef / chicken / vegetables and gravy all get this treatment

I don't think you can beat a good frittata for using up the leftovers in your fridge, its quick and easy to make and you can use most things, and more importantly it tastes lovely!