Sunday, 10 July 2011

Better the second time round

I love the forced creativity that opening the fridge door sometimes creates. That simple act of opening the door focuses your thoughts on the contents of the fridge, and what you can do with them. Sometimes that doesn't go so well, and sometimes you surprise yourself. Like this day.

I had some left over cooked chicken. Chicken that hadn't really worked the night before. I used a recipe I'd made before but not for some time. It used to be fabulous, not quite sure what happened this night. A simple baked chicken with mustard powder, curry powder, butter and honey. Somehow I managed to make it really quite hot this time, when previously it was quite mild. The family didn't really like it, so I had leftovers...

And it made an absolutely delicious toasted sandwich the next day for lunch!

Curried chicken and mashed kumara toasted sandwich on rye


This post is linked to Weekend Cooking, a fabulous weekly meme at Beth Fish Reads.

9 comments:

  1. I so loved your first paragraph. Just wonderful.

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  2. I'm in agreement with you. Some times when I open the refrig I see possibilities I never thought of before.

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  3. Learning to work with leftovers removes so much of the guilt from cooking -- I just hate wasting food. The sandwich looks great!

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  4. That looks like a great use of leftovers :)
    The chicken really was better the second time around!

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  5. You know what? I just love leftover chicken, especially with some bread in a sandwich; if I see some in the fridge, I feel like I hit the jackpot! Love your sandwich, very tasty and very colorful!

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  6. Looks great! Nice it was even better the second day!

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  7. I love pulling out things from the refrigerator and getting creative. Glad you found a way to turn the chicken in to something yummy.

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  8. Looks like you made great use of that leftover chicken; glad it was a hit for you, if not for the rest of the family.

    I hope you're able to find those "zone beets" I wrote about. If I find the true name of them (or, the more formal name, anyway), I'll let you know.

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  9. I agree, fridge-forced creativity is the best... especially when it turns out something hitherto unimagined, but delicious!

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