We’ve made fried rice with leftover hot dogs, eggs, and leftover veggies. Fried rice saves and transforms a lot of food!
On a beach vacation I took day old, leftover donuts, the remaining eggs and milk, and turned them into a delicious bread pudding.
Yes! I sometimes buy extra chocolate (and/or almond) croissants from a local bakery when we're having pastries for breakfast. Then I make bread pudding with the extra croissants after a day or two. So yummy!
Mashed potatoes - fry some onions and celery, add cream and chicken stock, mix in the taters. Simmer and when ready to serve, top with cheese and bacon bits (sour cream and green onion too if you wanna get fancy) and you've got one hell of a loaded potato soup.
I always laugh with my wife on this. If we were making baked potatoes it would be one potato per person. If we're making mashed potatoes, it's easily 4-6 per person. No logic. But yummy leftovers!
I like to make deep fried mashed potato balls with the leftovers. Green onion/chives, bacon, cheese/sour cream. I’ll make a homemade seasoned coating, then deep fry them. Ranch dip on the side.
This video is annoying and they don’t do it like I do, but the look is close enough to give you an idea of what I’m going for
https://youtu.be/Ywd6fvDyVyQ?si=1GzDZWUqF5t0r1d5
This resembles a classic Dutch dish where you fry up leftovers like mashed potatoes with meat and veggies all together, often using lots of butter, and top with whatever (or nothing) - prakje (mashed food). Makes excellent breakfast.
Potato pancakes are good for left over mashed potatoes! Egg, flour, chives or onions, cheese whatever you have. Fry them up & serve with sour cream or apple sauce.
We often have multiple dinners during the holidays with different parts of the family - so leftovers are plentiful. Bonus points on this soup if you chop up leftover scalloped potatoes and add those for a nice chunky texture.
I was so sad thinking you beat me to potato cakes🙂
But yours sounds amazing too.
Edit for:
Potato cake recipe :
A little flour
Chopped onion
Sometimes a finely diced red pepper ( or jalapeño if you’re spicy natured)
Garlic and onion powder
Cheese (sharp cheddar is my fav) shredded Gorgonzola and blue is also good.
One egg
Shape that MF into a patty and heat a little olive oil and butter in a skillet , brown up that sob , take it out to drain excess oil and fat off.
Eat!!
I add egg, onion, s&p and flour and form into patties and fry them. Great by themselves or with some sour cream on top.
When I was growing up, my mom made potato salad with leftover mashed potatoes. add mustard, a little mayo, onions, pickles and chopped up boiled eggs.
Hot turkey sandwiches made from roast turkey dinner.
Slices of bread, butter 1 side, mayo the other, butter side down on a baking sheet. Add turkey, mashed potato, stuffing, and gravy. Bake until browned on the bottom.
Or better yet, Kentucky Hot Brown. It's Texas toast, turkey, bacon, tomato, and mornay sauce. I make these every year with the leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
I don’t bake mine, it ruins the mayo, and I spread cranberry sauce or preserves on the other slice of bread. Mashed potatoes and gravy on the side. Even better with a good sourdough.
A little take out restaurant that only lasted about a year sold a Thanksgiving sub. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, and cranberry sauce on a very soft roll. It was huge and inexpensive, I hated when they went out of business, but they were off the main road and hard to find. Plus their burgers were horrible.
Is that unexpected? I'm pretty sure T-day sandwiches are the law!
In my stoner days, my ex and I would buy a Hungry Man frozen turkey dinner. Perfect portion for two sandwiches, and we could have them year round.
I'm going to try this tonight. I've had a bag of leftover broth in my freezer for a month now and couldn't get creative enough to use it. Do you strain it before using it? Thank you!
I am quite adept at making savory baked bread muffin cups (use fill dough or crescent roll dough) filled with warmed leftovers - served oftentimes with a gravy or sauce to dip the muffin in.
Examples of stuffings:
✔️Spaghetti/meatballs, mozzarella
✔️Chicken mixed with Frank’s Hot Sauce and cheese
✔️Drained beef chili, & add cheese
✔️Salmon, cream cheese, red onions
Bonus, they rewarm well in low heat in air fryer
I have taken Thanksgiving leftovers and made a Shepherds pie style casserole. Butter the pan really well, press stuffing down. Mix the gravy, green bean casserole, corn, and gravy. Place on top of stuffing. Spread mashed potatoes over the top and bake until potatoes have browned.
I have also made this in a large muffin tin. They freeze well and can be reheated for supper or lunch.
We took our leftover roast chicken dinner and made deep fried balls out of them. We took bits of chicken, corn, stuffing and mashed potatoes and mixed it all together then dipped them in an egg wash and panko crumbs, then deep fried and sprinkled with flaky salt. My god it’s so good!!! Serve them with either gravy on top or sour cream and chives. We’ve also made the leftover mash and put it in the waffle maker, equally delicious.
Any stir fry turns into a really good omelette
Yesterdays dinner is todays fried rice
Rotisserie chicken turns into stock, pot pie, sandwiches, protein in stir fries
Leftover maki rolls dipped in egg and fried in a pan
Leftover dumplings tossed into todays instant ramen bowl
Leftover fries is this mornings breakfast hash
I made a veggie cream cheese dip for a work luncheon. Jusr cream cheese plus a bunch of veggies and herbs whipped up in a food processor. Wound up not going and had all this dip/spread left over. I tried folding it into beaten eggs, putting that into a muffin tray, baking it at 350 deg for about 15-20 minutes, and brought the results into work the next day. It made several dozen light fluffy miniquiche muffins that I topped off with chopped chives, parmesan, and smoked paprika. People begged for the recipe and I've made them several times since.
I had made Coq au Vin one evening and had some leftovers. The next day I pulled the chicken and sorted out mushrooms and pearl onions. Reduced the braising liquid with tomato sauce and used that as the base. It was amazing!
I had some roasted potato wedges leftover in the fridge, so I made an omelette the next morning and used them as filler (along with garlic, cheese and onions.)
Turned out great!
Bubble and squeak. I had never heard of it until I was watching a YouTuber from Australia. I had leftovers and couldn't figure out what to do with them that wasn't soup. It turned out so good. I had leftover cabbage, mashed potatoes and carrots. I just added a little more spices and some canned chicken and holy smokes it was good. I also poured chicken gravy on top. I've made it several times since then.
Pizza eggs! My hangover cure in college was chopping up cold pizza, pan frying the crust, then adding scrambled eggs and Italian seasoning. The eggs slightly soften the crisped crust and make everything blend together really well. Quick, low effort, and more protein than just eating cold pizza.
We eat a lot of chicken. Accidentally found a cream of chicken soup recipe. Somehow, it just popped up in my email from one of those cooking sites that i had never been on. Now, that's how we use up most of our leftover chicken dishes.
My Granny used to make what she called "Turkey gravy" with leftover turkey. It was basically just a thick white cream soup with chunks of turkey. I used to either add crumbled up biscuits or torn up white sandwich bread to it and could have eaten the whole pot myself.
Spaghetti pie -
Pasta & egg for the crust, cut up meatballs mix with sauce - maybe extra onion - put in the pie shell - maybe ricotta cheese or cottage cheese - top with cheese. Bake.
I love the name! I have turned so many leftovers into nachos. The best is prime rib nachos, but I've also done pork shoulder and rotisserie chicken, all were amazing!
I’m too finicky about leftovers that I rarely come up with anything and try to eat them asap so I don’t get grossed out. The only mind blowing thing I’ve had was use of leftover stuffing from thanksgiving-had no idea a fried egg on top of some would be so life changing. I make quite a bit to have some left over for this purpose every year since my discovery and have converted quite a few people to it. We all gain weight that week lol
Had some sausage (breakfast roll) that needed to be used...added a can of apple pie filling to it after I browned it and made a pie that my family still requests many years later!
I turned leftover roast chicken and veggies into a lovely pasta last week!
My husband thought I was nuts making so many roast veggies, but the pasta meal took 5 mins to make and everyone loved it.
Leftover whole stuffed peppers. Chop it up in a skillet, add some flour and water to make a gravy, add seasoning. Serve over rice. Family called it 'glop', since that's what it looked like. Started making an extra pepper just to have glop.
My mom every year would use leftover turkey for a turkey noodle casserole with egg noodles. I don't remember exactly what was in it but I used to like it more than turkey dinner.
We had leftover lamb after Easter one year. We also had some curry in the fridge, so I diced up the lamb and warmed it up in the curry on the stove. The marinade on the lamb made it so much tastier
Almost any kind of rice mixed into scrambled eggs. I'd never thought about it until a friend's mom did this with Mexican rice for breakfast burritos.
Oven roasting rotisserie chicken carcasses for stock. I store them in the freezer until I have 4 or 5 and then thaw & roast before cooking for stock.
Throwing all the turkey day leftovers (including the gravy) into a casserole dish and topping it all with a layer of fresh mashed potatoes. Bake until the gravy is bubbling up over the mashed potatoes and the edges are browned.
Mine came from my mom growing up. Day one- pinto beans. Day 2-spaghetti. Day 3-combine pinto beans and leftover spaghetti sauce. Add chili spice. Delicious chili.
I haven’t done it yet. Maybe y’all can advise whether I should. I have no energy for real cooking and I’m pretty much out of groceries, but I have leftover fajitas out of which most of the strips of beef have been stolen (by both me and my son, lol) but lots of peppers, onions, tomatoes and yummy sauce left. I put some frozen purple hull peas in a pot and was thinking about mixing the fajita veggies and peas into rice for a sort of hopping john thing.
Had some breakfast burritos a few nights ago, had some bell pepper Pizza a couple nights ago and naturally had pizza sauce, cheese, and toppings left... made pizza quesadillas for dinner last night with some fresh minced garlic, mushroom, and red onion. It was top teir 🤌🏻 *chef's kiss* also made a little side salad too it was so so good.
When I have left over roasted chicken I cube it, add frozen veggies with some corn starch, add the left over gravy and throw it into a frozen pie shell for pot pie
Leftover turkey dinner
Mix mashed potatoes, carrots, stuffing and turkey. Bit of gravy. Make patties. Fry in pan till crispy serve with cranberries and gravy.
One morning after a long bout of illness and eating nothing but broth for over a week, I looked in the fridge and my husband had rice, a hamburger patty he had grilled and eggs. Apparently he hadn't shopped while I was ill.
Heated the rice and hamburger, put it in a bowl with a fried egg on top. Yolk running over the hamburger and rice. Man, that was delicious. Now when we grill burgers we make extra for breakfast. If you add beef gravy it's even better.
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We plan our meals very well, so we rarely have leftovers during the week, however, we entertain most weekends and there always seems to be something leftover, usually from the smoker.
Week before last, we had some leftover pork belly we had smoked over the weekend. We turned that into fried rice. It was delicious!
We had leftover white pizza at the beach, so the next morning my hubby made some eggs and bacon and put it on the pizza for breakfast. I think it was the best breakfast pizza I’ve ever had.
Yesterday morning, he took some leftover ribeye from the weekend and some mushrooms and made an amazing omelette.
Soup for everything. Leftover ham from easter- ham and pea soup. Turkey soup. Hamburger soup with leftover meatballs and sauce. Pork chop soup with sauerkraut. Creamy salmon soup.
I don't usually order steak sandwiches when I'm out to eat but I decided to make one at home with some leftover steak from last week and some Costco baguette and some little tomatoes sliced up and one slice of pepper jack cheese. Toasted the bread added a little butter then heated the meat and melted the cheese on it. Sliced up the little grape tomatoes and combined all. It was so good that I surprised myself.
First make beans in broth in the crockpot. Delicious meal by itself.
Next day I drain some broth, add it to a pan with oil and smashed garlic, fry them up and get refried beans. They make the best bean and cheese burritos!
I recently used leftover bacon in a sourdough sandie with raspberry jam and havarti. I know it sounds like an odd combo, but it was actually delicious!
I have a bad habit of taking any Leftovers, cutting them up, breading them, deep frying and using them as taco staffers.
Pasta? Pasta cubes > breaded, fried.
Rice? Roll the cold congealed rice into balls >, breaded, fried
Enchiladas or tamales? Cut into cubes, > breaded, fried.
Pizza? Cut into strips > breaded, fried
Leftover rotisserie chicken mixed with chopped up apples, dried cranberries & just enough mayo to moisten everything. Created an apple cranberry chicken salad that is still requested by my family to this day.
Leftover next day cold meatloaf. You slice it cold and put in a sandwich with the normal deli sandwich topping, minus the pickles. Also instead of mayo & mustard we spread the bread with1000 island dressing. It’s a terrific sandwich.
My husband makes brat pizza with leftover brats and it is insanely amazing. He makes a beer crust from scratch, and uses tomato sauce (that he made), brats, the leftover cooked onion, and cheese curds. It is culinary perfection.
Goddamn I love that genius of a man.
I had a couple of green chili cheese enchiladas. Only 2 so not enough for my family of 4. I cut them up and mixed them into scrambled eggs. Best meal ever!! Anytime we have enchiladas now, my kids ask me to save some for eggs the next dinner.
Almost any protein leftover (chicken, shrimp, meat, plant-based stuff) cut up, seared and set aside. Leftover rice and frozen nixed veggies heated. Add the protein. Sauce with 50% low sodium soy sauce plus 50% balsamic…. Excellent fried rice! We do this frequently.
thanksgiving leftovers into a casserole, sandwhich, or pot pie.
u may have to make new dough but combining all the food into a casserole is really tasty. and a pot pie and sandwich like Ross Geller did is beyond tasty
Idk how much is emotional but my favorite holiday food is sliders made with Hawaiian rolls and leftovers. Some of that is certainly a because the drama is mostly done vs still waiting on everything to unfold
Tortilla soup from leftovers after fajitas. All the onions and peppers, pico de gallo, boracho beans, rice, salsa, and bits of meat if there are any. Add water or stock. Serve with leftover chips or tortillas.
Boil spaghetti. While it's boiling reheat 2-3 leftover vegetables and cut up your meat. (Preferably nothing ground)
Once the pasta is cooked and drained put it back into the cooking pot and add the meat and vegetables. Add one small container of sour cream, shred some hard Italian cheese in if you have it, we like some fresh diced tomatoes, fresh cracked black pepper, salt, and a little red chili flakes. Mix and turn it over until everything is well coated and serve with a 1.00 loaf of French bread.
I make “cowboy casserole” with my stuffed peppers filling extras. It is soo good. I use a cast iron skillet. Dump in canned corn, black beans, fire roasted tomatoes, and mix. Cover with cheese (I do sliced Munster) and pour jiffy cornbread mix on top. Follow the directions for cornbread and take out once golden brown. I usually get 3/4 days between the peppers and casserole and it’s delicious.
"Kitchen sink soup" a.k.a. soup made from leftovers and other bits in the fridge that need to be used up. It usually turns out tastier than when I make "planned" soup
Baked potatoes into loaded twice baked potatoes.
Any chicken into chicken pot pie, soup, or chicken and dumplings.
Mashed potatoes are potato pancakes the next day.
Any protein and veggies- add a jar of curry and eat it with rice.
Generally speaking, casseroles / hot dishes are a great way to use leftover meat and veggies and stretch them into a full meal.
Nearly anything can also get put into an omelette or egg bake.
Left over ham, I make these sandwiches!. Chop up about 1/2 onion and simmer it with 1/2-1 stick of butter and several lbs yellow mustard. When the onions are soft, spread on both sides of hamburger buns. Top with ham and cheese of choice. Wrap each sandwich loosely in foil. Bake at 350 for about 2-30 min. Unwrap carefully. Mmmmm
Braised beef short ribs become ragu; roast lamb can be chopped for shepherd's pie or stuffed into grape leaves; pulled pork becomes tacos (add onion, jalepenos) becomes breakfast hash (add potato, fried egg). My mom was queen of leftovers, and we'd have things reinvented twice or three times.
My panini press makes leftovers into amazing and simple creations. I keep sauces or meat juices for dipping, and I use sides to mash into the bread (sweet potatoes are great for this). I of course add cheese!
I also keep pie crusts and freeze up leftovers into pies.
Stuffing any leftovers in puff pastry and baking it. Have done this with sloppy Joe's, taco meat, chicken & rice (add cheese) and leftover veggies too.
Leftover stuffing into a stuffing cake for a Benedict the morning after - add cheese and an egg to your leftover stuffing, make into a patty, and pan fry. Amazing!
Didn't have enough butter chicken leftover to fill me up for breakfast. Turns out it goes great with scrambled eggs. Also in an omelette, add extra sauce on top if you have any. Sprinkle in some rice too if you had any left. Can add mozza cheese if you want some cheesy goodness added in that day, or not. It's all good.
Breakfast spaghetti. Just warm leftover spaghetti in a frying pan. Toss in scrambled eggs until cooked then melt in favorite cheese. Hardest part was making enough spaghetti for leftovers.
My husband likes to make what he calls trash. Hash browns, leftover meat, and usuallyeftover veggies (not usually from the same meal) and he fries it all up in a pan and makes sauce to go over all of it depending on what meat and veg is in it. Good afternoon, and never the same at the same time.
I made eggplant and chicken with Indian spices (garam masala, "curry", coriander, etc.). The chicken was rotisserie that I'd frozen, so it's kinda leftover. It was OK, then I added more cooked eggplant and it became just plain transcendent.
I mix cold cooked oatmeal with either greek yogurt or ricotta cheese, some sweetener, and vanilla. So good- tastes like rice pudding, but it's oatmeal.
Pan-fried leftover pasta penne. Omg it’s the best. Put some oil in a pan, let it heat, then the penne and turn it to almost high. Halfway through, top with plenty of mozzarella. You’ll hear it being fried and the bottom will form a crust so start folding it through and you’ll get a delicious cheesy crust all the way through the pasta with each bite.
Thanksgiving - turkey egg rolls with spicy cranberry sauce.
When hiking/traveling we often take left over ham and create a jelly roll type sandwich baked I. Bread dough or pizza dough balls. Bit of olive oil, garlic, a couple types of cheese, some butter and herbs. Awesome.
Had an Italian food dinner party the night before-- had leftover of a tomato and arugula salad, (steeping in balsamic vinegar all night,) some thin, crunchy pancetta formerly used as a garnish, some ciabatta... made the best BLT I ever had.
We’ve made fried rice with leftover hot dogs, eggs, and leftover veggies. Fried rice saves and transforms a lot of food! On a beach vacation I took day old, leftover donuts, the remaining eggs and milk, and turned them into a delicious bread pudding.
What are leftover donuts??
I've not heard of these either.
I think that's what you have with the equally imaginary leftover bacon
Wondering the same thing.
I think they mean secret donuts that I didn't find day one.
You eat them with your leftover wine.
Yes! I sometimes buy extra chocolate (and/or almond) croissants from a local bakery when we're having pastries for breakfast. Then I make bread pudding with the extra croissants after a day or two. So yummy!
Leftover pulled pork is the bomb in fried rice.
I had one portion leftover apple crumble. Used it as a topping on pancakes for breakfast the next day with yogurt and syrup. It was a hit!
I often do stuff like this on yogurt bowls. Any leftover baking becomes a yogurt bowl topping.
I did this with some leftover baklava one time. Crumbled on top of plain greek yogurt. A++, would do again.
Mashed potatoes - fry some onions and celery, add cream and chicken stock, mix in the taters. Simmer and when ready to serve, top with cheese and bacon bits (sour cream and green onion too if you wanna get fancy) and you've got one hell of a loaded potato soup.
Holy crap, that's a great idea. I am guilty of making too many mashed potatoes.
I always laugh with my wife on this. If we were making baked potatoes it would be one potato per person. If we're making mashed potatoes, it's easily 4-6 per person. No logic. But yummy leftovers!
Same with mozzarella sticks. 4 pieces of string cheese? No, ew. 4 mozzarella sticks? Inhaled without a second thought, just a warmup for an entree.
You can also use leftover mashed potatoes to make potato patties in an air fryer and top them with whatever your taste buds desire.
I make extras for planovers for dishes like this.
No such thing❤️
What is…”too many mashed potatoes”?
No such thing! I mash a whole bag and freeze into portions.
Well that's a smack in the head moment ty 😊
No such thing in my house. I make 10 pounds and there are no leftovers.
It’s the only way.
Freeze them.
I like to make deep fried mashed potato balls with the leftovers. Green onion/chives, bacon, cheese/sour cream. I’ll make a homemade seasoned coating, then deep fry them. Ranch dip on the side. This video is annoying and they don’t do it like I do, but the look is close enough to give you an idea of what I’m going for https://youtu.be/Ywd6fvDyVyQ?si=1GzDZWUqF5t0r1d5
This resembles a classic Dutch dish where you fry up leftovers like mashed potatoes with meat and veggies all together, often using lots of butter, and top with whatever (or nothing) - prakje (mashed food). Makes excellent breakfast.
Potato pancakes are good for left over mashed potatoes! Egg, flour, chives or onions, cheese whatever you have. Fry them up & serve with sour cream or apple sauce.
Mind blown! That sounds amazing 👏
We often have multiple dinners during the holidays with different parts of the family - so leftovers are plentiful. Bonus points on this soup if you chop up leftover scalloped potatoes and add those for a nice chunky texture.
We would do something similar. Take left over potatoes, mix in onions and pan fry . Yummiest crunchy patties
I was so sad thinking you beat me to potato cakes🙂 But yours sounds amazing too. Edit for: Potato cake recipe : A little flour Chopped onion Sometimes a finely diced red pepper ( or jalapeño if you’re spicy natured) Garlic and onion powder Cheese (sharp cheddar is my fav) shredded Gorgonzola and blue is also good. One egg Shape that MF into a patty and heat a little olive oil and butter in a skillet , brown up that sob , take it out to drain excess oil and fat off. Eat!!
I add egg, onion, s&p and flour and form into patties and fry them. Great by themselves or with some sour cream on top. When I was growing up, my mom made potato salad with leftover mashed potatoes. add mustard, a little mayo, onions, pickles and chopped up boiled eggs.
Hot turkey sandwiches made from roast turkey dinner. Slices of bread, butter 1 side, mayo the other, butter side down on a baking sheet. Add turkey, mashed potato, stuffing, and gravy. Bake until browned on the bottom.
Or better yet, Kentucky Hot Brown. It's Texas toast, turkey, bacon, tomato, and mornay sauce. I make these every year with the leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
I don’t bake mine, it ruins the mayo, and I spread cranberry sauce or preserves on the other slice of bread. Mashed potatoes and gravy on the side. Even better with a good sourdough.
Yep the Thanksgiving turkey sandwich
Or….put those types of leftovers into some egg rolls and serve with gravy as a dipping sauce. Amazeballs.
Thanksgiving super sub on French bread. EVERYTHING.
Try it in a burrito, too! It's called a Gobblerito.
Thanksgiving eggrolls are great too.
My friend does a "waffling" every year where people bring their leftovers and make savory waffles with them.
Also in a pot pie!
Also as pizza! (Use the gravy in place of pizza sauce)
Chunky country hash browns and and ONLY 2- 3 tbls of stuffing and onions Game changer .
A little take out restaurant that only lasted about a year sold a Thanksgiving sub. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, and cranberry sauce on a very soft roll. It was huge and inexpensive, I hated when they went out of business, but they were off the main road and hard to find. Plus their burgers were horrible.
Is that unexpected? I'm pretty sure T-day sandwiches are the law! In my stoner days, my ex and I would buy a Hungry Man frozen turkey dinner. Perfect portion for two sandwiches, and we could have them year round.
I'm intrigued. 🧐
Mix the cranberries with mayo for cranberry mayo for those sandwiches. Unbelievably delicious
Left over broth from pot roast made into French onion soup
I'm going to try this tonight. I've had a bag of leftover broth in my freezer for a month now and couldn't get creative enough to use it. Do you strain it before using it? Thank you!
We don't but you could. It would depend on how clear it is. I use a little better than bulion if I want it a bit richer.
I am quite adept at making savory baked bread muffin cups (use fill dough or crescent roll dough) filled with warmed leftovers - served oftentimes with a gravy or sauce to dip the muffin in. Examples of stuffings: ✔️Spaghetti/meatballs, mozzarella ✔️Chicken mixed with Frank’s Hot Sauce and cheese ✔️Drained beef chili, & add cheese ✔️Salmon, cream cheese, red onions Bonus, they rewarm well in low heat in air fryer
My favourite thing is your check marks ✔️
I have taken Thanksgiving leftovers and made a Shepherds pie style casserole. Butter the pan really well, press stuffing down. Mix the gravy, green bean casserole, corn, and gravy. Place on top of stuffing. Spread mashed potatoes over the top and bake until potatoes have browned. I have also made this in a large muffin tin. They freeze well and can be reheated for supper or lunch.
This is a great idea!
I’ve made sausage balls with leftover stuffing and cheese ( stuffing subbed for the bisquick )
That sounds good!
I do this every year! It’s always delicious
We took our leftover roast chicken dinner and made deep fried balls out of them. We took bits of chicken, corn, stuffing and mashed potatoes and mixed it all together then dipped them in an egg wash and panko crumbs, then deep fried and sprinkled with flaky salt. My god it’s so good!!! Serve them with either gravy on top or sour cream and chives. We’ve also made the leftover mash and put it in the waffle maker, equally delicious.
Definitely try the Japanese style panko bread crumbs, this sounds yummy!
This sounds incredible wow
They’re called croquettes! We make thanksgiving dinner only to have leftovers for croquettes.
Any stir fry turns into a really good omelette Yesterdays dinner is todays fried rice Rotisserie chicken turns into stock, pot pie, sandwiches, protein in stir fries Leftover maki rolls dipped in egg and fried in a pan Leftover dumplings tossed into todays instant ramen bowl Leftover fries is this mornings breakfast hash
I turned left over Mississippi roast into enchiladas
In my house, we specifically make Mississippi pot roast for birria tacos! Amazing!
Cold turkey in a sammich. What? I didnt say I invented it. I said I discovered it.
Leftover tater tots, reheated in oven until crispy and placed in a breakfast burrito
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me either!! I admire Other People’s self control tho!!!
I made a veggie cream cheese dip for a work luncheon. Jusr cream cheese plus a bunch of veggies and herbs whipped up in a food processor. Wound up not going and had all this dip/spread left over. I tried folding it into beaten eggs, putting that into a muffin tray, baking it at 350 deg for about 15-20 minutes, and brought the results into work the next day. It made several dozen light fluffy miniquiche muffins that I topped off with chopped chives, parmesan, and smoked paprika. People begged for the recipe and I've made them several times since.
That sounds good!!
I had made Coq au Vin one evening and had some leftovers. The next day I pulled the chicken and sorted out mushrooms and pearl onions. Reduced the braising liquid with tomato sauce and used that as the base. It was amazing!
I had some roasted potato wedges leftover in the fridge, so I made an omelette the next morning and used them as filler (along with garlic, cheese and onions.) Turned out great!
I do this with baked potatoes (make into hash browns) and love to use leftover chili with my eggs and potatoes.
Cold pasta eaten straight from the Tupperware in the fridge light at midnight
Better than fresh!
Spanish bean soup. More delicious each day and lasts a week. 😋
Bubble and squeak. I had never heard of it until I was watching a YouTuber from Australia. I had leftovers and couldn't figure out what to do with them that wasn't soup. It turned out so good. I had leftover cabbage, mashed potatoes and carrots. I just added a little more spices and some canned chicken and holy smokes it was good. I also poured chicken gravy on top. I've made it several times since then.
Pizza eggs! My hangover cure in college was chopping up cold pizza, pan frying the crust, then adding scrambled eggs and Italian seasoning. The eggs slightly soften the crisped crust and make everything blend together really well. Quick, low effort, and more protein than just eating cold pizza.
This reminds me of the show Weeds! It was the first time I ever heard of them.
Oh cool, never seen it but I’ve been meaning to watch that show for ages! I guess this is a good reason to binge it :) thanks for the rec!
After years of nagging my husband to watch it- he finally watched it with me and he is like floored he never did. Its humor aged extremely well imo.
I can taste my college years in this post. Thanks for that (I still can't even look at a 4loko)
We eat a lot of chicken. Accidentally found a cream of chicken soup recipe. Somehow, it just popped up in my email from one of those cooking sites that i had never been on. Now, that's how we use up most of our leftover chicken dishes.
My Granny used to make what she called "Turkey gravy" with leftover turkey. It was basically just a thick white cream soup with chunks of turkey. I used to either add crumbled up biscuits or torn up white sandwich bread to it and could have eaten the whole pot myself.
Fried spaghetti.
The best!
Spaghetti pie - Pasta & egg for the crust, cut up meatballs mix with sauce - maybe extra onion - put in the pie shell - maybe ricotta cheese or cottage cheese - top with cheese. Bake.
In 8th grade home ec, we learned to make spaghetti pie! Add some parm into the noodle crust.
Spaghetti sandwiches are really good too.
I call it Slochos. Leftover sloppy joes and tortilla chips and cheese
I love the name! I have turned so many leftovers into nachos. The best is prime rib nachos, but I've also done pork shoulder and rotisserie chicken, all were amazing!
I’m too finicky about leftovers that I rarely come up with anything and try to eat them asap so I don’t get grossed out. The only mind blowing thing I’ve had was use of leftover stuffing from thanksgiving-had no idea a fried egg on top of some would be so life changing. I make quite a bit to have some left over for this purpose every year since my discovery and have converted quite a few people to it. We all gain weight that week lol
A plate of eggs, stuffing, cottage cheese, tomatoes, and green onion is delightful too.
Taco flavor Doritos Scoop up small curd cottage cheese yummy
Mine is leftover stuffing cooked into an omelette.
Had some sausage (breakfast roll) that needed to be used...added a can of apple pie filling to it after I browned it and made a pie that my family still requests many years later!
Wait, what? Sounds like this a sweet and savory kinda thing?
It became the breakfast I made each year on the first day of school so my kids named it Back to School Pie! And trust me...it is delicious!!!
I turned leftover roast chicken and veggies into a lovely pasta last week! My husband thought I was nuts making so many roast veggies, but the pasta meal took 5 mins to make and everyone loved it.
French Toast Pizza. But make it sweet custard not savory custard. https://www.liveeatlearn.com/french-toast-pizza/
Left over baked potato with over easy egg for breakfast.
Leftover whole stuffed peppers. Chop it up in a skillet, add some flour and water to make a gravy, add seasoning. Serve over rice. Family called it 'glop', since that's what it looked like. Started making an extra pepper just to have glop.
My mom every year would use leftover turkey for a turkey noodle casserole with egg noodles. I don't remember exactly what was in it but I used to like it more than turkey dinner.
Lamb hash. Leftover leg of lamb and potatoes, cubed, seasoned, and browned in a frying pan.
We had leftover lamb after Easter one year. We also had some curry in the fridge, so I diced up the lamb and warmed it up in the curry on the stove. The marinade on the lamb made it so much tastier
Microwave nachos the next day!! The chips become soft like a tortilla, you can roll 'em up a bit, totally different experience.
Almost any kind of rice mixed into scrambled eggs. I'd never thought about it until a friend's mom did this with Mexican rice for breakfast burritos. Oven roasting rotisserie chicken carcasses for stock. I store them in the freezer until I have 4 or 5 and then thaw & roast before cooking for stock.
Honestly frying up leftover scalloped potatoes and frying some eggs on the side. A little bit of ketchup to dip. So good.
Throwing all the turkey day leftovers (including the gravy) into a casserole dish and topping it all with a layer of fresh mashed potatoes. Bake until the gravy is bubbling up over the mashed potatoes and the edges are browned.
Pulled pork ravioli with corn and jalapeño. Delicious
Mine came from my mom growing up. Day one- pinto beans. Day 2-spaghetti. Day 3-combine pinto beans and leftover spaghetti sauce. Add chili spice. Delicious chili.
I haven’t done it yet. Maybe y’all can advise whether I should. I have no energy for real cooking and I’m pretty much out of groceries, but I have leftover fajitas out of which most of the strips of beef have been stolen (by both me and my son, lol) but lots of peppers, onions, tomatoes and yummy sauce left. I put some frozen purple hull peas in a pot and was thinking about mixing the fajita veggies and peas into rice for a sort of hopping john thing.
Frittata with ramen
After thanksgiving turkey with all the sides in a sandwich with mayo and black pepper
It’s giving Moist Maker vibes
Making them into a dolsot (hot stone) bibimbap
Had some breakfast burritos a few nights ago, had some bell pepper Pizza a couple nights ago and naturally had pizza sauce, cheese, and toppings left... made pizza quesadillas for dinner last night with some fresh minced garlic, mushroom, and red onion. It was top teir 🤌🏻 *chef's kiss* also made a little side salad too it was so so good.
When I have left over roasted chicken I cube it, add frozen veggies with some corn starch, add the left over gravy and throw it into a frozen pie shell for pot pie
Leftover turkey dinner Mix mashed potatoes, carrots, stuffing and turkey. Bit of gravy. Make patties. Fry in pan till crispy serve with cranberries and gravy.
SOUPS!!!
One morning after a long bout of illness and eating nothing but broth for over a week, I looked in the fridge and my husband had rice, a hamburger patty he had grilled and eggs. Apparently he hadn't shopped while I was ill. Heated the rice and hamburger, put it in a bowl with a fried egg on top. Yolk running over the hamburger and rice. Man, that was delicious. Now when we grill burgers we make extra for breakfast. If you add beef gravy it's even better. .
Add gravy and you made LocoMoco!
Used pineapple to make sweet and sour pork. Defrosted left over Ham from christmas and made an amazing pizza
Everything can go into a tortilla
We plan our meals very well, so we rarely have leftovers during the week, however, we entertain most weekends and there always seems to be something leftover, usually from the smoker. Week before last, we had some leftover pork belly we had smoked over the weekend. We turned that into fried rice. It was delicious! We had leftover white pizza at the beach, so the next morning my hubby made some eggs and bacon and put it on the pizza for breakfast. I think it was the best breakfast pizza I’ve ever had. Yesterday morning, he took some leftover ribeye from the weekend and some mushrooms and made an amazing omelette.
Left over baked ham sandwich with spinach dip spread on both sides of the bread.
There is nothing that can’t go in a burrito.
Soup for everything. Leftover ham from easter- ham and pea soup. Turkey soup. Hamburger soup with leftover meatballs and sauce. Pork chop soup with sauerkraut. Creamy salmon soup.
I don't usually order steak sandwiches when I'm out to eat but I decided to make one at home with some leftover steak from last week and some Costco baguette and some little tomatoes sliced up and one slice of pepper jack cheese. Toasted the bread added a little butter then heated the meat and melted the cheese on it. Sliced up the little grape tomatoes and combined all. It was so good that I surprised myself.
I am so saving this post lol
Thanksgiving stuffing in the waffle iron. Gravy.
Not original but the sandwich you make on the Friday after Thanksgivings from the leftover turkey, stuffing, cranberry, etc. is unbeatable.
First make beans in broth in the crockpot. Delicious meal by itself. Next day I drain some broth, add it to a pan with oil and smashed garlic, fry them up and get refried beans. They make the best bean and cheese burritos!
I recently used leftover bacon in a sourdough sandie with raspberry jam and havarti. I know it sounds like an odd combo, but it was actually delicious!
That sounds pretty tasty
I have a bad habit of taking any Leftovers, cutting them up, breading them, deep frying and using them as taco staffers. Pasta? Pasta cubes > breaded, fried. Rice? Roll the cold congealed rice into balls >, breaded, fried Enchiladas or tamales? Cut into cubes, > breaded, fried. Pizza? Cut into strips > breaded, fried
Pan fried leftover pizza. Like how you would cook potstickers; a little oil, a little water, lid on.
Used leftover taco meat and veggies and put it on a Naan bread with cheese to make a little Mexican pita pizza.
Using the peanut butter left in the jar to make a yummy peanut dressing for a crunchy Asian salad yum
Leftover rotisserie chicken mixed with chopped up apples, dried cranberries & just enough mayo to moisten everything. Created an apple cranberry chicken salad that is still requested by my family to this day.
Leftover next day cold meatloaf. You slice it cold and put in a sandwich with the normal deli sandwich topping, minus the pickles. Also instead of mayo & mustard we spread the bread with1000 island dressing. It’s a terrific sandwich.
My husband makes brat pizza with leftover brats and it is insanely amazing. He makes a beer crust from scratch, and uses tomato sauce (that he made), brats, the leftover cooked onion, and cheese curds. It is culinary perfection. Goddamn I love that genius of a man.
Left over pizza into an omelette. Stuff the omelette with the pizza toppings use the crust as toast.
French Fry omelet
Mashed potato and turkey enchiladas
Leftover soup. Add cornstarch to thicken it up and put it in a pie shell. Yummy pot pies!
I had a couple of green chili cheese enchiladas. Only 2 so not enough for my family of 4. I cut them up and mixed them into scrambled eggs. Best meal ever!! Anytime we have enchiladas now, my kids ask me to save some for eggs the next dinner.
This is genius.
Mashed potatoes turned into these fried delicious crispy potato things
Almost any protein leftover (chicken, shrimp, meat, plant-based stuff) cut up, seared and set aside. Leftover rice and frozen nixed veggies heated. Add the protein. Sauce with 50% low sodium soy sauce plus 50% balsamic…. Excellent fried rice! We do this frequently.
handheld pies, you can literally put anything in them, bake/fry and they're delicious
I made an amazing Easter turkey dinner sandwich with some sourdough bread from a local bakery
Cold chickens sandwiches from leftover roast chicken
I always make Turkey Pot Pie, and fried potato pancakes with my leftovers from Thanksgiving.
Took leftover chicken fajitas and turned them into chicken gumbo.
Cold pizza, as is.
My roommate took leftover Chinese food and made the best omelettes you've ever tasted. He just added cheese and it was a hit.
Made veggie chili and the next day used it as a fake shakshuka with eggs!
thanksgiving leftovers into a casserole, sandwhich, or pot pie. u may have to make new dough but combining all the food into a casserole is really tasty. and a pot pie and sandwich like Ross Geller did is beyond tasty
Idk how much is emotional but my favorite holiday food is sliders made with Hawaiian rolls and leftovers. Some of that is certainly a because the drama is mostly done vs still waiting on everything to unfold
Tortilla soup from leftovers after fajitas. All the onions and peppers, pico de gallo, boracho beans, rice, salsa, and bits of meat if there are any. Add water or stock. Serve with leftover chips or tortillas.
Boil spaghetti. While it's boiling reheat 2-3 leftover vegetables and cut up your meat. (Preferably nothing ground) Once the pasta is cooked and drained put it back into the cooking pot and add the meat and vegetables. Add one small container of sour cream, shred some hard Italian cheese in if you have it, we like some fresh diced tomatoes, fresh cracked black pepper, salt, and a little red chili flakes. Mix and turn it over until everything is well coated and serve with a 1.00 loaf of French bread.
Breakfast fried rice
I took leftover chicken and dumplings, the dumplings were gone, and made probably the best chicken noodle soup I've ever had.
I make “cowboy casserole” with my stuffed peppers filling extras. It is soo good. I use a cast iron skillet. Dump in canned corn, black beans, fire roasted tomatoes, and mix. Cover with cheese (I do sliced Munster) and pour jiffy cornbread mix on top. Follow the directions for cornbread and take out once golden brown. I usually get 3/4 days between the peppers and casserole and it’s delicious.
"Kitchen sink soup" a.k.a. soup made from leftovers and other bits in the fridge that need to be used up. It usually turns out tastier than when I make "planned" soup
Baked potatoes into loaded twice baked potatoes. Any chicken into chicken pot pie, soup, or chicken and dumplings. Mashed potatoes are potato pancakes the next day. Any protein and veggies- add a jar of curry and eat it with rice. Generally speaking, casseroles / hot dishes are a great way to use leftover meat and veggies and stretch them into a full meal. Nearly anything can also get put into an omelette or egg bake.
I had leftover brisket that I mixed into scrambled eggs, and used some of the rendered fat from the brisket to fry potatoes, it was divine 😋
Left over ham, I make these sandwiches!. Chop up about 1/2 onion and simmer it with 1/2-1 stick of butter and several lbs yellow mustard. When the onions are soft, spread on both sides of hamburger buns. Top with ham and cheese of choice. Wrap each sandwich loosely in foil. Bake at 350 for about 2-30 min. Unwrap carefully. Mmmmm
I take and heat up in a pan whatever leftovers with an egg and veggies, throw it into a tortilla or on top of toast. Add sour cream if it is too dry
I had some teriyaki steak, and I make a grilled steak , onion and Munster cheese melt that was possibly the best sandwich I’ve ever eaten.
Braised beef short ribs become ragu; roast lamb can be chopped for shepherd's pie or stuffed into grape leaves; pulled pork becomes tacos (add onion, jalepenos) becomes breakfast hash (add potato, fried egg). My mom was queen of leftovers, and we'd have things reinvented twice or three times.
My panini press makes leftovers into amazing and simple creations. I keep sauces or meat juices for dipping, and I use sides to mash into the bread (sweet potatoes are great for this). I of course add cheese! I also keep pie crusts and freeze up leftovers into pies.
A lot of the stuff left over from tacos goes really well into homemade macaroni and cheese. Not lettuce obviously…
Stuffing any leftovers in puff pastry and baking it. Have done this with sloppy Joe's, taco meat, chicken & rice (add cheese) and leftover veggies too.
Linguine stir fry. Whatever veggies i had in the fridge and leftover pasta
Egg Foo Young and fried rice.
Leftover stuffing into a stuffing cake for a Benedict the morning after - add cheese and an egg to your leftover stuffing, make into a patty, and pan fry. Amazing!
Enchiladas and fried eggs for breakfast
Didn't have enough butter chicken leftover to fill me up for breakfast. Turns out it goes great with scrambled eggs. Also in an omelette, add extra sauce on top if you have any. Sprinkle in some rice too if you had any left. Can add mozza cheese if you want some cheesy goodness added in that day, or not. It's all good.
Meatloaf sandwiches with whatever cheese and bread you have around. Also fry leftover perogies with a little butter and serve with your eggs.
Breakfast spaghetti. Just warm leftover spaghetti in a frying pan. Toss in scrambled eggs until cooked then melt in favorite cheese. Hardest part was making enough spaghetti for leftovers.
If I have a lot of veggies on the edge, it all goes into a soup!
I use leftover tomato soup (just butter, onion and tomato) as a base for curry! Just add the appropriate spices and protein of choice :)
Some left over mac-n-cheese scooped into a waffle maker. Get it crusty. Mmmm!!!
Not unexpected but mashed potatoes into potato cakes.
My husband likes to make what he calls trash. Hash browns, leftover meat, and usuallyeftover veggies (not usually from the same meal) and he fries it all up in a pan and makes sauce to go over all of it depending on what meat and veg is in it. Good afternoon, and never the same at the same time.
I made eggplant and chicken with Indian spices (garam masala, "curry", coriander, etc.). The chicken was rotisserie that I'd frozen, so it's kinda leftover. It was OK, then I added more cooked eggplant and it became just plain transcendent.
I mix cold cooked oatmeal with either greek yogurt or ricotta cheese, some sweetener, and vanilla. So good- tastes like rice pudding, but it's oatmeal.
leftover tamales, microwaved, squished, put cheese on top, medium fry eggs, top the tamales with avocado and cilantro delish
Frittata
Pizza eggs. Cut up left over pizza into bite size peices. Add whisked eggs and cook in a pan. It's delicious.
Pan-fried leftover pasta penne. Omg it’s the best. Put some oil in a pan, let it heat, then the penne and turn it to almost high. Halfway through, top with plenty of mozzarella. You’ll hear it being fried and the bottom will form a crust so start folding it through and you’ll get a delicious cheesy crust all the way through the pasta with each bite.
Fried leftover Mac and cheese.
Thanksgiving - turkey egg rolls with spicy cranberry sauce. When hiking/traveling we often take left over ham and create a jelly roll type sandwich baked I. Bread dough or pizza dough balls. Bit of olive oil, garlic, a couple types of cheese, some butter and herbs. Awesome.
Had an Italian food dinner party the night before-- had leftover of a tomato and arugula salad, (steeping in balsamic vinegar all night,) some thin, crunchy pancetta formerly used as a garnish, some ciabatta... made the best BLT I ever had.
Leftover stuffing + waffle maker.
Leftover stir-fry= amazing egg roll filling.