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Lasang Pinoy 15 (Recycled, Reloaded!): Cooking with leftovers

November 13, 2006 | Food trips & events | Print This Post

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It has been a practice with my family to have roast duck on New Year’s Eve. Last New Year’s Eve was the first time we didn’t have roast duck in so many years. You know, bird flu scare and all.

Anyway, we did have roast duck for New Year’s Eve in 2004. Since a duck is much smaller than a turkey, there were just enough leftovers to make a duck and potato salad. Click on the photo above for the recipe.

Last Christmas, we broke a family tradition of NOT buying a whole leg of ham. No duck for New Year’s Eve, so why not a whole leg of ham for Christmas? Yeah, right, makes no sense hahaha. We had so much ham that we were eating ham-this-and-that until the New Year. I remember that the last dish I did was spaghetti using the ham bone for the sauce. We brought it to a friend’s birthday party and that’s why I remember–it was gone from the buffet table in a flash.

Before the bone stood alone (as the edited nursery rhyme goes hehehe), there was more ham than we cared to put between slices of bread.

Solution one: ham and cheese omelet.

Solution two: ham and chorizo fried rice.

And that ends my entry for Lasang Pinoy 15: Recycled, Reloaded! Hope you find everything useful, especially for the coming holidays.

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14 Responses to “Lasang Pinoy 15 (Recycled, Reloaded!): Cooking with leftovers”

Pau on November 13th, 2006 4:05 pm

I always believe in the power of reinventing leftovers
We are really innovative when it comes to food. pinoy food rocks!
dexie on November 13th, 2006 9:13 pm

Talk about a loaded entry..hehe.
auee on November 13th, 2006 9:48 pm

Aba seasonal tong topic nyo… I’ve bookmarked this to print before the XMas/New Year meal’s decided. Siguradong iba-ibang klase magiging sahog ng fried rice namin plus yung potato salad mo.
Connie on November 13th, 2006 11:40 pm

Pau, being frugal and conscientious have their positive side.

auee, o ‘di ba? para walang sayang. nagwawala asawa ko pag may nasasayang na pagkain dito sa bahay hehehe
mike on November 14th, 2006 12:50 am

hi connie,

thanks for joining this round of lasang pinoy! and thanks for letting me use one of your photos as well . . . ginutom ako sa mga dishes you have here . . .
GAiL on November 14th, 2006 1:58 am

ahhh… this i think my sub-standard cooking skills can handle! marc will not have to live on chicken ala king and spaghetti alone
Rose on November 14th, 2006 6:40 am

Awesome entry! Fried rice is my favourite way of using up leftover rice and meat too - it’s just so easy. For tomato-based dishes (stew etc) I like to make shepherd’s pie or pasta bake the day after… anything to stretch the dollar further (am a struggling recent graduate, haha).
Connie on November 14th, 2006 2:18 pm

thank you, mike, for e-mailing me before you did your round-up. wouldn’t have missed this for anything.

you go, gail! practice lang yan.

Rose, my family loves shepherd’s pie too (we call it farmer’s pie though). leftover afritada, menudo… even pasta sauce.

Dexie, I fished out your comment from the Akismet Spam filter. Grabe, napagkamalan kang spammer nung filter. hehehe
Boo on November 15th, 2006 11:43 am

you make cooking sound so easy! will definetely try your version of fried rice - down to the use of the omelette as a garnish rather than mixing it up with the rice. were you able to try the special fried rice of north park — the one with sauce? my hubby and i both l o o o v e it; would like to surprise him one of these days. thank you for sharing your cooking skills with us, GOD BLESS
fruityoaty on November 15th, 2006 1:52 pm

Wow, that fried rice certainly looks delicious. Nice presentation!
Connie on November 15th, 2006 3:06 pm

Hi Boo, haven’t had a chance to go to north park lately. sooo far… LOL

thanks, fruityoaty.
JMom on November 16th, 2006 2:37 am

wow! ang dami! I impress even myself sometimes how well we can recycle leftovers. Nothing goes to waste, but it doesn’t mean we have to eat the same dish over and over again until it’s gone.

It’s almost turkey time here again, I’ll be sure to try the paksiw na turkey this time.
Connie on November 16th, 2006 7:23 am

JMom, Filipinos give a whole new dimension to the meaning of “frugal gourmet”, no?
chatty on November 28th, 2006 1:11 am

hi, we had lots of turkey leftover from thanksgiving and came across your turkey fried rice recipe…guess what, my boyfriend who used to tell me I dont have domestic skills was impressed!!! thanks for people like u who shares and make cooking so enjoyable!!!

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