The strange power of leftovers

[urocyon]

I think it's safe to say that, otherwise, I would never have considered serving leftover-mashed-potato-gnocchi with pork tenderloin gravy and a side dish of cabbage (both also last night's leavings). This combination turned out to be surprisingly tasty.

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[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

But cooking with leftovers is fun, since you just run riot and try out stuff that you wouldn't if you'd just bought a whole load of new stuff, for fear of spoiling it.

Purely for the leftovers reason, every kitchen should have a good supply of vegetarian stockcubes (a bottle of bouillon concentrate is even better), Worcestershire sauce, a decent soy sauce (none of your cheap ones - Kikkoman is good), and Tabasco or some other type of sauce. Garlic and chilis are also handy to have and you can buy jars, ready chopped, that last forever.

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[vatine]

There is decent soy. There is assorted stock cubes (and stock "powder", veg and chicken), a decent (if not exhaustive) supply of spices. There is a "Tabasco Chipotle" bottle (half-full). What's missing at teh moment is (mostly) fresh garlic and assorted spices, but taht'd be because I always forget what's lacking so I consistenly forget to stock up when shopping. When the spice situation gets 'orrible enough, I go on a dedicated spice-shopping expedition. :)

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[urocyon-c.livejournal.com]

There should be plenty of garlic, as well--I picked up some yesterday. Can't function without quantities of garlic. *g* Cheap soy is fine, as long as it's "huge bottles from the Asian market" cheap (my favored variety, in fact), rather than "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" cheap.

Yay stock powder! Probably needn't say more on that subject.

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[do-not-lick.livejournal.com]

You should be careful of that asian soy sauce. Especially the cheap stuff.

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[urocyon-c.livejournal.com]

Erm, thank you. "Blended", in particular, does sound like something to avoid. Though I likely would anyway; that could mean any number of things, and even "blended with the dregs we couldn't sell otherwise" isn't too appealing, human hair or no. *shiver*