...and what we did have. It was Thursday, and we were still eating holiday leftovers. We had a couple of pieces of roasted Christmas turkey from the freezer, and we had some white beans left from the January 1 cassoulet.
We also had a green salad. After I'd washed the lettuce, Walt noticed the little gastropod pictured above crawling around in the kitchen sink. I'm glad we didn't eat him by accident. We both like to eat escargots but this one was just too little.
With the leftover beans and turkey, we made a version of Boston baked beans. Or Québec baked beans, because I saw the recipe on the web (www.ricardocuisine.com) and it called for maple syrup, among other ingredients (ketchup, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, cloves, cinnamon, paprika, and cayenne pepper). Delicious with chunks of turkey meat in it and bacon on top.
Nice idea to eat leftovers and save some money
ReplyDeleteI don't believe in throwing food into the garbage as long as there's a good way to make it appetizing and nutritious.
DeleteHere, here!! Round of applause for that man in the odd shoes!
DeleteChez nous, they usually end up as soup.
And thanks for that recipe link...
another variation for me to try...
and with maple syrup!!
Here I use maple syrup or golden syrup (when I can find it) along with black treakle (ditto) as the base for baked beans, along with ketchup, tomato paste, and spices. These cassoulet beans I had left over were cooked in turkey broth snd seasoned with duck fat. That background flavor made the baked beans really delicious.
DeleteOops... treacle. It's not a word we use much in America, where we call it molasses.
DeleteMake some slaw and some of that vinegary BBQ to go with those excellent looking baked beans! Leftovers rule at our house, but we usually put them in the freezer or wait a day before eating them again. Except for roasted chicken which is very easy to change up for the next day's meal.
ReplyDeleteActually, I made pulled pork last night in the slow cooker. And this morning I made slaw using Belgian endive and grated carrot with a mayonnaise, yogurt, and mustard dressing. Too bad we had already finished the baked beans...
ReplyDeleteThe Quebec baked beans look wonderful. I usually read your blog with my morning coffee, and often I think I'd like to reach into the screen and have a serving of what you've posted. Especially today, a perfect cold weather, comfort food.
ReplyDeleteRicardo Larrivée has a great food and cooking web site. It features French recipes and methods with North American ingredients and tastes. He's in Montréal.
DeleteLooks great! Anything with maple syrup, and I'm in :)
ReplyDeleteWe are glad to be able to buy maple syrup at SuperU these days. Ten years ago it was harder to find. It's the same with many "exotic" products. Globalization, I guess.
DeleteMy husband would get all happy when I made leftovers ...
ReplyDeleteI am glad the little bitty snail escaped being eaten :)
You know, some people think that as long as it has bacon in it, it is delicious :)
I used to just love fresh garden tomato and bacon sandwiches with lots of mayo .. back when I was a child in North Carolina :)
My mother grew the best tomatoes you can imagine in her vegetable garden in Morehead City. We ate many a delicious BLT made with those tomatoes, good N.C. bacon, and Duke's mayonnaise. By the way, my grandfather came from, and my mother was born in, Rock Hill, S.C., just south of the border from Charlotte.
DeleteWell, honey, we are almost cousins ! :) My daddy went fishing with his buddies every year down off of Morehead City .. Rock Hill used to be a pretty little town, has it gotten all big and city like now ? I haven't been to Charlotte in ages. My brother lives in Belmont.
DeleteMy grandfather was Joe Miller. He went to Morehead City in the 1920s for his work and met my grandmother there. And yes, I remember Rock Hill as a pretty little town back in the early 1960s, when I first went there. We went back recently (2013? I think) and yes, Rock Hill is now all citified and is basically a sprawling bedroom community for people who commute up to Charlotte to work.
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