Leftovers

How to recycle your leftovers

Here at Food in the Fort, we love to experiment with recipes and try unusual cooking techniques, but we also believe in embracing leftover food to create new flavors and combinations.

If you love to cook and you often host big family meals or dinner parties, rather than throwing out any leftovers, why not mix them together to make a brand new meal? If you receive e-mail alerts from your favorite websites, whether it’s from Cheeky Bingo, The Food Channel or your favorite cooking blogs, but you cannot seem to find anything inspirational on them, why not have a look at the fun recipes below?

Turkey Dumplings
Turn your leftover roast trimmings into an oriental snack by making these delicious and healthy turkey dumplings.

Ingredients:

  • Your leftover turkey
  • 3 cups of water
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 2oz butter
  • A vegetable stock cube

Method

  1. Begin by mixing the flour with a pinch of salt. Add the butter and blend well. Then pour in the water and knead into a smooth dough.
  2. Roll out the dough and cut into small circles before filling each shape with the turkey pieces.
  3. Drop the dumplings into a pot of simmering vegetable stock and cook for 10 minutes. Drain the water and serve.

Tiramisu ice cream cake
If you’ve made a trifle recently and you have a packet of sponge fingers leftover, why not try this Italian inspired frozen dessert?

Ingredients:

  • Your leftover sponge fingers
  • 2 shots of strong espresso
  • A bar of dark chocolate
  • Vanilla or coffee ice cream

Method

  1. Soak the sponge fingers in the espresso and closely place several fingers at the bottom of a freezable container to create a base layer.
  2. Spread a layer of ice cream over the sponge and top with a cube of grated chocolate. Repeat this sequence until you have run out of sponge fingers.
  3. After your final layer of ice cream, sprinkle with the remaining chocolate and place in the freezer for 2 hours

 

 

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