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• Tip of the Day: What to do with leftover veggies
  

  Filed under: Vegetables, Leftovers, Tip of the Day

  Have you ever made up a great stir-fry or fajita mix and then struggle to eat all the tasty veggies before they go bad? There are other ways to use those great, leftover veggies.

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• Soul-saving sweet tea sherbet
  

  Filed under: Teas, Dessert, Recipes, Leftovers, America, Comfort Food, Non-alcoholic, Guilty Pleasures, Summer

  Kind little rituals seem to go a long way toward making marriage work, so almost every weekend, I make my husband some sweet tea. He's a Southern boy by birth (Brooklynian by marriage), and having a big ol' pitcher easily grabbable in the fridge seems to right any Mason Dixon imbalance he might be suffering at the time. I've got it down to a science, proportion-wise, but this past weekend, his itch for a sugar fix kicked in while I was at the grocery store....
  



• Leftover brisket sandwich
  

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  I am a big fan of leftovers. I always bring home any food that remains after a meal out and when I've cooked at home, I squirrel away anything that wasn't eaten. I have no qualms about eating steamed broccoli the next day, sprinkled with salt and straight out of the container. However, there are times when I like to put the energy into my leftovers and turn them into something new.
  
  The sandwich you see above was one of my most successful leftover transformations to date. I took a chunk of leftover braised brisket, sliced it into strips and reheated it gently in a small bit...
  



• Mainely Food Pics: Mussel Car
  

  Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, East Coast, Steaming, Leftovers, America, Shellfish, Summer

  
  
  I always thought that a muscle car was a hot rod from the late 60's- early 70's until I was driving around my old haunts of Rockland, Maine yesterday researching and shooting an article and saw this impressive Mussel Car.
  
  That looks like it was the remains of a tasty lobster, clam, and mussel bake. Or maybe it washed up on the beach after a Nor'easter. Either way that's one heck of a vehicle. I wonder how many shellfish power it is? Does it get dive bombed by...
  



• Tip of the Day: Spinach is great in bulk
  

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  Frustrated that your spring mix goes bad before you can eat it? Try buying spinach instead.
  
  

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• A surprisingly tasty salad of leftovers
  

  Filed under: Lunch, Vegetables, Leftovers

  
  Last week, I ran home from work to make some lunch and ended up standing in front of the fridge, struggling to creating a meal from the hodgepodge of leftovers and aging veggies. I had some sad radishes, two romaine hearts that were decidedly past their prime, a handful of meatballs, the end chunk of a seedless cucumber and half of a ciabatta roll that was so hard that it could have been used as a weapon.
  
  Hungry and pressed for time, I started to assemble a salad, although without much enthusiasm. I peeled the...
  



• Please, no more turkey leftovers!
  

  Filed under: Poultry, On the Blogs, Leftovers

  That's not my opinion, by the way. I love turkey leftovers. But Slate's Jill Hunter Pelletteri says that she's had enough with all the talk about what to do with your holiday turkey leftovers:

  Every November, magazine editors and food writers, cooking gurus and TV personalities, foist turkey leftover recipes upon us. Unless we put our tired, picked-over turkey carcass to good use, they tell us, we're wasting some precious opportunity. But don't be fooled. Do not be tempted by that recipe for turkey and leek risotto. Those stringy last bits of gristle and meat that cling to your bird are...
  




• Leftovers: Wine Cookies
  

  Filed under: Wine, Dessert, Recipes, Leftovers, Holidays, Thanksgiving

  We're big wine drinkers during the holidays. I'll go with a Cabernet Sauvignon before a cocktail or beer. We'll finish off a bottle no problem and then open another one, but there's often a lot left from this second bottle. Sure, we could put the cork back on and/or put it in the fridge, but how about using the leftover wine in a cookie recipe?

  This is a recipe for Wine Cookies, or Biscotti al Vino. Basically it sounds like sugar cookies only with a cup of wine of your choice added in. Cheers!




• Leftovers: a cavalcade of turkey sandwiches
  

  Filed under: Recipes, Leftovers, Thanksgiving

  OK, so we've already talked about the MoistMaker ("you ate my SAAAAAAAAAANDWICH?!"), but what about all of the other varieties of turkey sandwiches you can make long after family and friends have left the house? I've scoured the web to find the best, and added one of my own creation. Several recipes after the jump!

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  The Thanksgiving tradition from which I come dictates that we do not alter or reimagine the leftovers until several days have elapsed. This is because we all really enjoy just eating plate after plate of reheated stuffing, turkey, potatoes and squash. We are simple like that. However, once Saturday evening arrives and multiple plates of microwaved Thanksgiving food have been consumed, it is time to re-invent a little.
  
  My dad is a fan of chopping everything up into small pieces, throwing it all in a...