I treated myself to a new recipe book just before Christmas. Hmm, only the third or fourth for 2013.
This one is Save with Jamie by Jamie Oliver and was sitting on a display at my local Woolies. For $24 and a large family I thought it was worth buying even if I do usually find his recipes sometimes a little bit too British for me.
For Christmas we had 2 roast chickens. One plain and one seasoned. In his book Jamie has a Mothership Roast for each meat and about 7 meals that use leftovers to create another meal. Quite impressive I must say so I thought I would give the idea a try.
Out of our 2 roast chickens I have the makings of 6 meals. Roast Chicken Dinner, Roast Chicken and Sweet Pea Risotto, Frenchie Salad, Chicken and Spinach Cannelloni, lunch meat for 2 days and a spare carcass in the freezer for making some yummy stock.
First off the line was of course the roast. No surprises there. My husband likes a roast almost weekly so it was our normal fare of roast potatoes, roast sweet potato, roast onions, steamed carrots, broccoli, peas and corn with gravy.
I weighed out the portions for my 3 chosen leftover meals and the leftover meat became lunch meat for Boxing Day and the day after. Didn't take long to polish it off with 4 boys here.
Next was the Frenchie Salad. I must admit this is the first time I have made a dressing from scratch and I am usually quite nervous about using white wine vinegar but I gave it a go. It was easy peasy, and very yummy. I just had to go out and make sure I had enough mustard and vinegar to do it again soon.
This recipe also included lentils which are usually a no go here. I decided I wasn't going to change a thing so in went the lentils. They were great and really filled the salad out nicely.
I look forward to trying more of this book. If all the meals are still filling despite using just leftovers I will be very impressed. I still have 2 more meals in the freezer and the carcass too. Not bad for $16 worth of chicken.
Best wishes
Jen
Well done on stretching that chicken! I love lentils in a salad. Isn't it great when you find a bunch of recipes that you actually enjoy cooking, and the family likes eating!
ReplyDeleteWe are working on it Jo. I have decided to adopt that idea of trying new things at least 7 times before allowing food refusal for anyone. My dh has quite a restricted palate so this could be fun. He has agreed to give it a try.
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