I bet every mom has a way of dealing with leftovers. My mom would haul everything out on the counter in various sized containers and call it a smorgasbord. It didn’t matter if nothing went together. It was our version of a one-family potluck, and Mom’s night off.
Our neighbor, the little old farm lady, made soup. She threw all her farm-grown vegetables and chicken scraps in a pot of salty water and served it to her husband every day for lunch, with iced tea and saltines with melted cheese on top.
Some people make a mean casserole. Sometimes casseroles are so mean they make me cry. If you invite me to a potluck, don’t make me try the casserole. Especially if it has eggplant in it, I might have to spit it into a nearby potted plant. The exception is tuna casserole. I know it’s not glamorous, but noodles + cheese + tuna = good stuff. You can’t go wrong.
I have my own version of a casserole, and I call it a baked quesadilla. Or bake-adilla, for short. I discovered some time ago that absolutely everything tastes good with tortillas and cheese. You can just pile leftovers in between layers of flour tortillas in a casserole dish and shove it in the oven. Chicken, peppers, onions, and Monterey Jack makes it a chickie-dilla. Tomato sauce, pepperoni, mozzarella, and olives is a pizza-dilla. Ground beef, cheddar, tomatoes, and salsa is a taco-dilla. Never mind if that makes no sense in Spanish.
The possibilities are endless. I’m pretty sure I could even come up with a dessert quesadilla. If there’s ever any sweet stuff left over in our house, I just might invent it.
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Note to self -- don't read blogs like this at lunchtime. Now I'm hungry for quesadillas! My mom did the mixed-matched potluck thing with all the leftovers. We have a family of 6, so between everyone, leftovers don't last too long here.
As for a dessert quesadilla, I love putting cream cheese and some kind of thick jam (usually huckleberry) and roll it all up. That's really good. Think I'll go make one now! :)
Growing up, when my mom pulled out the leftovers, my sister and I would feed them to the dog when mom wasn't looking...
I barely cook now, so leftovers aren't a problem...getting the food made the first time around seems to by my problem...grin...
Rena - Cream cheese and huckleberry jam! Now I'm hungry.
Brenda - I know, too often cooking means opening a box and pushing buttons on the microwave.
Oh, for me it's apple pie filling between tortillas sprayed with cooking spray and baked. Of course, now I am hungry for dessert at 8 AM. ;)
This week I figured out a great recipe for leftovers leave it all in the oven until it dries out and burns and then serve it to everyone and growl when they complain.
Okay, now I want leftovers--I can't believe I'm saying that! In the south they call leftovers "Taddix." And families will get together for "Taddix" for supper. I like that they call it something else--makes it more exotic:)
Carrie - Yum!!
Suzie - Funny! I think I've tried that recipe.
Green Girl - I've never heard of that! I wonder what the origin is?
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