Loving the Leftovers
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Christmas is over, everyone’s eaten too much – and yet, there’s still a mountain of leftover goodies, from the turkey to the cheese board, from the veggies to the fruit cake.
So how can we make the most of festive leftovers? And for that matter, leftovers at any time of year? Because this isn’t just about reducing the 4.5 million tonnes of food that UK households waste every year, it can also be a route to some seriously delicious dishes…
Sheila Dillon gets creative in the kitchen while finding out more about the leftovers ethos from cook and author Melissa Hemsley, food-loving writer Bill Buford, and author and journalist Debora Robertson; along with tips for up-cycling the remainders of festive feasts from School of Wok's Jeremy Pang, Gardeners' World's Frances Tophill and BBC Food's Emily Angle.
Presented by Sheila Dillon; produced by Lucy Taylor in Bristol.
Pictured: BBC Food's Ultimate Festive Cheese Toastie from Sarah Cook. Find the recipe at www.bbc.co.uk/food.
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| 0:56.4 | Leftovers are brilliant. |
| 0:57.6 | I never think of them as a sort of second best at all. |
| 1:00.6 | My mother, she told me off for using words like thrifty and frugal. |
| 1:04.6 | She said, you know, that doesn't sound very exciting, Melissa. |
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| 1:09.5 | But actually, I love those words. I think they are important important words to be celebrated. |
| 1:16.0 | Keep your leftover fresh, try to repurpose it and then have fun with it. It's kind of the most inventive moment you can have as a cook. |
| 1:27.0 | Food waste is incredibly useful for many, many reasons, often traditional and sometimes something you may not have thought of before. |
| 1:34.6 | My favourite festive leftover dish has got to be Christmas dinner |
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