If you cooked a whole turkey, chances are there will be plenty of leftovers. You could make the usual turkey chili, soup or pot pie. Or try something new. And boil the carcass to make bone broth. Salads: Sandwiches: Simple on the stove: Back into the oven:
With so many leftovers crowding the fridge, it becomes a culinary adventure to mix and match ingredients to create amazingly quick meals that can be fully vegan or adapted to include leftover meats or your favorite proteins. Here are some suggestions:
Give your leftover Thanksgiving desserts a surprising second round. Cranberries, cranberry sauce and toasted pecans can combine to make delicious hot buttered breakfast scones, muffins, loafs or snack bars. Dab some cranberry sauce on sandwiches or as a yogurt topping. Use cranberries or cranberry sauce plus orange juice and spices to make a ham glaze, […]
You’re down to the last slice of bread or the heel of the loaf. It’s been only a few days, so the bread is still good. Break it into crumbs or cubes, or leave the pieces whole on a baking sheet, sprinkle with olive oil, herbs and possibly Parmesan cheese, and bake on low to […]
Bananas tend to go ripe quickly, becoming mushy and turning brown. If you can’t get to the whole bunch fast enough, try freezing them, or else spring into action to make banana-walnut bread, banana muffins, banana-chocolate pie, banana pancakes, banana smoothies and banana ice pops. All of these can also be frozen for some time. […]
Make creative desserts out of leftover Halloween candies. It’ll be messy and maybe even ugly, but lots of fun. Use a food processor to crush your favorite combo of salty, sweet, chocolatey, buttery or minty snacks to top ice cream, cupcakes, yogurt, cake or cheesecake. Add graham cracker crumbs or top with raspberry or chocolate […]
Upcycling is the catch word for turning trash into treasure. Take something that would have been discarded and give it another use. Only in the late 20th century did we become a throw-away society. Let’s go back to the basics in the 21st. A great place to start being thrifty again is with holiday decor. […]
A complete overhaul is happening in the fashion industry to stop waste and keep textiles ‘in play’ for longer periods of time – perhaps permanently. Replacing the massive waste of fast fashion, this is the new concept of circular fashion. New fibers are plant-based, made to simulate polyester or nylon. Much of this pulp comes […]
Imagine how much oil one fast food restaurant uses in a day, multiplied by how many restaurants are doing this around the world, and you may see that there is a big concern about what to do with all this oil, which often becomes thick and full of sediment, and then gets dumped. However, commercial […]
The Paris 2024 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games will take the bold lead of being the first major event to disallow single-use plastics. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced this ambitious plan on May 26, 2023. Sporting and sustainability-minded worlds alike are eagerly talking about France’s progressive initiatives to provide new alternatives to plastic. Hidalgo cited the […]