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Leftovers are great, as long as the meat isn't too dry, especially after reheating. Sometimes I'll reheat meats in the toaster or oven/barbecue instead of microwaving for that very reason. Usually I just reheat things as they were, and not make them into something else. Although a small amount of steak refried with eggs is a good example. I'm not opposed to trying new things with leftovers, though. This is a good place for some great ideas.
I would generally rather make leftover food into something new than eat the same dish multiple times in a row. A couple of repeats of the same thing is my limit.
I had leftover roasted veggies and Ina Garten had a recipe for a soup using them. When we get Chinese takeout they always give white rice with the meal. Sometimes I'll use that to make my own fried rice. One time we actually had some leftover skirt steak that I grilled the night before. Next night I made steak sandwiches. It was great!
I don't understand how some people don't like leftovers. If the meal was really good I can't wait to have it again the next night. My grandmother never wasted any food. Leftover spaghetti with sauce was fried in butter the next day for lunch. Stale pound cake was toasted with butter, stale bread was made into bread crumbs, leftover cooked spaghetti with out sauce she made spaghetti and eggs. If I have egg and bread crumb leftover after frying chicken cutlets I make patties and fry them. So good!
I lived with someone who was of the persuasion that if food was from the day before (or more!) it was suddenly "bad" or "disgusting." When it hadn't been, say, the night before, when it was cooked. He had a lot of OCD-type neuroses, though.
How something you loved the night before turns "repulsive" literally overnight (when properly stored, obviously) is...interesting...to me. To say the least.
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