Juthwara's lentil-rice-cheese casserole and my mix-and-match instamatic pasta bake in the comments - I lived off the pasta bake for a month once when I was doing literally nothing but working and sleeping, because it takes 5 minutes to dump everything in the casserole dish, it bakes by itself, and then it takes a minute thirty to rewarm a piece with some more cheese over the top. Particularly if you have several bags of frozen veg in the freezer and can just throw some handfuls of frozen broccoli in with the can from the pantry. If you're planning on freezing it, leave off the top layer of cheese when you're baking it and then add that when you're rewarming it. Discovered through more experimentation than I care to admit to over that month...
Okonomiyaki in themselves don't make particularly good leftovers, but they're a great thing to do with already-cooked chicken. You could also throw some cooked chicken into a waldorf++ salad base if you happen to like apples and celery and dates and walnuts/other nuts; I've done tuna-waldorf++ before and it turns out about like tuna-salad-with-a-twist, so this'd be about like chicken-salad-with-a-twist. Got recipes for both of those somewhere in the memories and tags too.
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Date: 2006-02-15 05:22 pm (UTC)Here's a bunch of recipes, most of which are designed to provide leftovers of one species or another since I live alone and tend to make a week's worth of food at a time so I have my own microwave dinners on the cheap. Also linking to my recipe-memories since I can't tag things that aren't in my own journal.
Particular leftoverables include:
Juthwara's lentil-rice-cheese casserole and my mix-and-match instamatic pasta bake in the comments - I lived off the pasta bake for a month once when I was doing literally nothing but working and sleeping, because it takes 5 minutes to dump everything in the casserole dish, it bakes by itself, and then it takes a minute thirty to rewarm a piece with some more cheese over the top. Particularly if you have several bags of frozen veg in the freezer and can just throw some handfuls of frozen broccoli in with the can from the pantry. If you're planning on freezing it, leave off the top layer of cheese when you're baking it and then add that when you're rewarming it. Discovered through more experimentation than I care to admit to over that month...
I don't know what to call this but it's what happens when I go Korean-Mexican-Indian-fusion on my mom's stuffed green peppers recipe and end up with something that involves no pepper stuffing whatsoever. I made up a really big batch of this a couple weekends ago and froze it in portions and the rice toasts in just about as much time as it takes to thaw a portion in the microwave. And it's darn cheap too, and vegetarian friendly if you leave out the hamburger and possibly add more paneer or other non-melting cheese to make up for it.
Here's a cheating-fast version of Korean dolsot bibim bab that was at least half the inspiration for the above, and I keep it in my freezer all the time too.
Okonomiyaki in themselves don't make particularly good leftovers, but they're a great thing to do with already-cooked chicken. You could also throw some cooked chicken into a waldorf++ salad base if you happen to like apples and celery and dates and walnuts/other nuts; I've done tuna-waldorf++ before and it turns out about like tuna-salad-with-a-twist, so this'd be about like chicken-salad-with-a-twist. Got recipes for both of those somewhere in the memories and tags too.
Hope that helps some!