The Thrifty Cookbook: 476 Ways To Eat Well With Leftovers - Plot & Excerpts
The great thing about them is that they transform cheap cuts of meat into meltingly tender cold-weather comfort food – and they are practically impossible to mess up. Whatever is left over can be frozen for a ready meal later on or thinned with some good-quality stock and blitzed into a hearty soup.If you have a fair bit of meat left over, though, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with making a stew with it – using up wilting vegetables at the same time. Unlike classic stews made from scratch, these are relatively fast, taking minutes rather than hours. As with soups (see pages 53-68), you start with a good base of softened onion and garlic, bulk up the meat with companionable vegetables, add the flavour and freshness of herbs and swathe the whole lot in a gravy made from stock, a can of tomatoes or other liquid.Curries, whether you use a fresh array of spices or a ready-made curry powder or paste, are quick and almost effortless – certainly nothing exotically untoward – and if you keep them on the mild side most children will find them thrillingly different and gobble them up.It’s worth repeating that cooked meat has already given up most of its juices and will only toughen if cooked again for too long.
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