Christmas leftovers

Fruball

I love the idea of using it as a pasty filling and freezing it. I am going to do that this year. Yummy.

Usually we just sling the leftovers in the fridge and bit by bit they just vanish! Altho this year, with just me and the kids, I guess I will do bubble and squeak type meals but i'm not going to be cooking an awful lot, so there won't be that many leftovers.

emiff6

Meadows wrote: »

Don't have left overs I stopped buying too much food a long while ago and cooking too big a piece of meat on Christmas day, we have enough to eat and any small pieces left over can be nibbled in the evening...

Same here. I've stopped looking at Christmas as an excuse to pig out (and pile on all those calories). So instead of a pint of cream liberally splashed on or in everything possible, it's a quarter pint for the Christmas dessert and a luxury splash in after dinner coffee for all, either turkey or pork, and veg sufficient to the day.

Everyone has enough, but nobody lies immobile on the sofa, groaning that they've eaten too much and are there going to be mince pies with the coffee please?

adelight

Left overs, cheese board and cold cuts for Boxing day Lunch, generally more leftovers with extended fam for Boxing day dinner.
There is ALWAYS a turkey curry on the 27th! Christmas pud/cake gets eaten slowly into january

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi, I have had family over for tea and cooked too many new potatoes, they were quite expensive too. I dont really want to make them into potato salad so whats the best thing to do. Would they be OK reheated in the microwave?

Fruball

Yes they will be fine to microwave. Or you could fry them up. i like to fry them up with some chopped bacon if you have some, and onions ooooooh yummy

Beverley_Bill

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Hi,

well, I live alone, so what can I do with any left over veggie lasagne, single portion, home made about June, retrieved from the freezer on Christmas morn, about 5ish, to defrost, then zapped in the microwave about 5pm, after home from pub.

To be enjoyed with a tennis ball sized baked potato, and various pickles.

Wonder why I live alone?

Edit: No Christmas wishes, I don't do Christmas.

Which pub stays open until 5pm on Christmas day?:D

We eat everything we ate for lunch, later when it is cold, sprouts, stuffing, parsnips the lot, the turkey or duck will make oodles of curry with noodles:j
Cosmopolitan Christmas

mollythewestie

I enjoy the cold meats, homemade pickles and chips on boxing day more than christmas dinner itself!

My DH's favourite leftover meal is a (sort-of) spaghetti carbonara: soften some shallots or onions in a little olive oil, add some chopped up ham, some cream, crumble in some stilton (or whatever cheese you have leftover) and add lots of black pepper - serve on spaghetti.

soba

When we all lived at home, on Boxing day we always used to have cold left-over turkey, proper HM chips, tinned marrowfat peas, gravy and a couple of rounds of white bread to mop the gravy up with. Always used to enjoy it more than our Christmas dinner.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

Beverley_Bill wrote: »

Which pub stays open until 5pm on Christmas day?:D

jings, up here, where the civilised people live, they are open till about 2 in the morning, think they shut early in Yorkshire to keep the lager louts off the streets.
:T :rotfl: :beer: :rotfl: :T

Oh, by the way, is your signature racist? :rotfl:

La-Cara

We have Christmas dinner again on Boxing Day as well as the usual sandwiches, curry, bubble & squeak etc