Butternut and courgette noodles plus red pepper, broccoli stalks and spring onions
Seared squid with stirfried veg noodles
Leftovers lunch #2
It’s fridge clearing day again!
Leftovers lunch
Hungry but too hot to think of anything so rescued the leftovers from the fridge.
A little salad of baby spinach, cherry toms, Kalamata olives and a pesto dressing (pre-made pesto thinned with olive oil), with soft boiled egg, tuna and dill mustard. Yum 🙂
Don’t you just love leftovers?!
Leftovers Lunch
Working at home so had to raid the fridge for lunch. Slim pickings.
All we had left was a chunk of butternut squash, half a red onion, a few rashers of bacon and some lettuce. 20 minutes later and a dribble of vinaigrette:
Could have added the last of the stilton but I may want that later 🙂
Pork steak garbage stirfry
Tuna, pepper and mango salad
Trying to deplete stocks before heading off on hols, so had to work with what was left lying around.
Another victory for scraps 🙂
Brisket burgers
Apologies, but it’s modest brag time.
Thanks to my epic Barbacoa Beef Brisket earlier in the week, I had a tub of über tender beef sitting in the fridge, awaiting its calling. I have bestowed said calling 🙂 A slightly messy, burger-like arrangement packed with shredded beef, pickles and sauce.
The “buns” are shredded sweet potato, in case you were interested 😉
Meals for one
Next week I’m home alone, so I’ll be cooking for just the one Cave Person.
Shouldn’t be a problem as I can just freeze any extras, but it will give me a chance to try out some new recipes and I can take as long as I like over it! (well, until I get too hungry and just eat whatever’s there)
Got a fair amount of odds and ends in the fridge and freezer so will get creative with those before hitting the shops. Let’s see how long I can hold out! I tried this a while back and it did shake up the old routine 🙂
Confit duck with honey, orange and figs (Middle-class leftovers)
So I had some confit duck legs leftover, as you do. I’d love to say that I confit them myself but that would be a lie. I bought a few tins in France and we had 2 of the legs a couple of weeks ago, with celeriac and garlic greens, so the spare 2 were liberated from the freezer ready for an encore.
The nice thing about getting them in a tin, aside from the time saved, is that easily you get a jam jar of duck fat to use as you please for weeks!
Back-in-the-day, they would have been baked in a hot oven until crispy before being shredded to be served with jarred plum sauce and Chinese pancakes, but for this encore I wanted to try something a bit different.
Ingredients:
- 2 x confit duck legs, excess fat wiped off
- 1 x large orange, zest and juice separated
- 2 tblsp honey
- 6 x small fresh figs, halved
Method:
Preheat oven @ 200°c (400°F / Gas Mark 6)
Heat a small frying pan over medium heat, without adding fat, and fry the duck legs skin side down. After 5 mins turn over and brown on the other side. Drain and discard any extra fat; pref into a jar for later, but most definitely not down the kitchen sink.
Place the duck legs in a baking dish, drizzle over the honey and sprinkle on the orange zest. Season with S+P and roast for 15 mins. [I did sneak a look and baste the duck with the honey mix halfway through – probably not necessary]. After 15 mins pour over the orange juice, add the figs to the dish and roast for a further 10 minutes. Serve. Simples 🙂
Could do this with raw duck legs, or even chicken legs, but give them longer to roast with the honey and orange as you need to actually cook them, as opposed to just heating through. Big fan of this “roast then add liquid for the final minutes” method as you get a really tasty result. I do the same with my garlic and rosemary chicken, creating a sharp lemon edge to the chicken pan gravy. Yum!
