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\nI eat leftovers for lunch most days. I did the same when I worked in the office – I like my own cooking at least as well as restaurant food, and often better. Plus it takes less effort, less time and less money.<\/p>\n
\nI eat leftovers for lunch most days. I did the same when I worked in the office – I like my own cooking at least as well as restaurant food, and often better. Plus it takes less effort, less time and less money.<\/p>\n
Back then of course I had to decide and pack my lunch in the morning. Now I decide when I get hungry, which means I have a lot more flexibility. And it sometimes leads to odd combinations, when there is not enough of any single leftover to make a full meal, or when I find leftover pasta sauce but no leftover pasta.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it leads to two-course lunches: half a serving of soup followed by half a serving of lasagna, for example. That almost feels fancy.<\/p>\n
Other times I opt for convenience, and instead of getting two separate bowls and heating two separate dishes, I mix them up. Not soup with lasagna! I’m not that crazy yet.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I had carrot soup with pilaf rice, or perhaps pilaf rice in carrot soup, because there was more rice than soup in my bowl.<\/p>\n
Today’s lunch was sweetcorn chowder, but the hot smoked salmon was all gone, so I topped the soup with fried herring instead and added a pinch of smoked paprika for that smoky flavour.<\/p>\n
Both combinations looked a bit odd but tasted great.<\/p>\n
The herring chowder would make no sense to cook from scratch – why go to all the effort of dipping your herrings in egg and flour and frying them, only to put them in soup where they immediately go soggy? But the carrot and rice soup was great. The rice made it more filling and gave it texture. I’ve just never thought of it before. But spinach soup with rice is a thing, so why not carrot soup with rice?<\/p>\n
(Now I had to google it, and there are recipes for carrot and rice soup out there, but the ones I saw all pureed the rice together with the carrots. Less work, fewer pots, but that would take away half the niceness of this combination.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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