Thank you all for your lovely comments on Small Man’s birthday post, and for sharing the happy occasion with us! ♥
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The conundrum with party food is this: I can’t bear the thought that there might not be enough, but prepping on that principle always results in a mountain of leftovers, and I can’t bear to waste any of them. So visitors are always pressed to take home boxes of food, while we attempt to creatively upcycle whatever remains.
With all the pastry offcuts from the sausage rolls…
…we made a dozen curry puffs. Filled with chicken and potato, they were good both hot and cold…
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I used the leftover antipasti in a quadruple batch of our filled foccacia. Double-smoked ham, Italian Prosciutto, Parmesan, Fromage D’Affinois, membrillo and sun-dried tomatoes all went into the mix…
Two giant slabs of focaccia came out of the oven…
Half a slab went to Will and Bethany, who’d brought an antipasto platter, and the rest was cut into large squares and frozen. The boys have been eating them for lunch with leftover hummus…
This worked particularly well and I’d urge you to give it a go the next time you have leftover antipasti. Almost anything can go in, even the tiny scrappy bits!
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Glad I am having a snack while I read this. Otherwise I”d go from hungry to starving. This all looks so delicious.
You’re a Genius !!
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That antipasti foccacia looks like something we would love! Yummmm!
ABSOLUTELY!! Waste not, want not!!
The sausage rolls looks delicious, as do the curry puffs. A focaccio looks great as well. A great way to use leftovers!
Such a lovely way to upcycle it all looks gorgeous.
Wow, hats some pretty good eats from leftovers.
Celia! I missed your other post and had to go back & read that after I read this one. Firstly a big Happy Birthday to Small Man, I hope all his dreams & wishes come true and may he have many, many more happy birthdays :-)
Now your birthday party food looked fab, your reinvention of birthday food looks delicious. I think I might copy you on the focaccia for lunches this week.
I wish I lived next door to you!!!
Beautiful pastry, love. x
We love leftovers! In fact when I cook I almost always make extra to turn the leftovers into another meal, another day 😀
Leftovers are the gift the cook gets to make tomorrow easier 😉. Good use of all of yours.
I love that focaccia idea – definitely one to remember.
Coming from a long matriarchy of the “ít’s better to have too much than not enough” school of catering, I applaud your efforts! Always good to create something new with the leftovers! Cheers, Sally
Dear Celia, great ideas for using up leftovers. The focaccias look great and I’d very much like to try some pieces. But unfortunately they had to travel half around the world to find me. I read your blog for almost a year and what I love best is everything about bread baking and chocolate. My sister and I bought the moulds from the USA that you had recommended (20 moulds!!!) and we’re really happy with them. Btw my sister makes very delicious raw chocolate in them. I’m better in baking sourdough bread. Thank you for the tip and the inspiration. Have a nice week. I’m looking forward to more new chocolate pictures. Tina from Germany