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serendipity leftover soup
I was preparing to leave for a long weekend and staring at a refrigerator full of leftovers. Don’t have time or energy for cooking and don’t really have space for anything more either. And yet, I’m not sure I want to have any of those dishes for yet another meal. Inspired by a recent post on The Common Room blog (I can’t find the specific entry; but I’m sure I saw it there), I decided to make leftover soup.
I started by heating up some oil in my large dutch oven and sauteing a diced onion. Then I added some red pepper flakes and several cups of Dom’s homemade chicken stock. (Just pull out a frozen container, run it under the faucet for a minute, plop it in a saucepan on high and in a minute you have your very own stock. Much better than the stuff from a can!) To this base I added some shredded breast meat from last week’s roasted chicken. Then I started emptying plastic containers of leftovers: kidney beans, green peas, vegetable curry with rice, turnip greens with onions, dandelion greens with onions, and tomato sauce. I finished it off with the juice of a couple of limes.
The result was surprisingly flavorful, a hearty chicken and vegetable soup with rice. We each had two huge bowls and the leftovers will give Dom a couple of meals while I’m away this weekend. Not bad for a half hour’s work! I can’t promise all such endeavors will be as tasty, we had a good head start with some very flavorful dishes, like that vegetable curry. But this is an experiment that bears repeating.
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