leftovers

Spicy leftover turkey soup

December 26, 2011 Food & drink

If Christmas Day brings the biggest meal of the year, it follows that Boxing Day must leave the most leftovers. Nobody – NOBODY – gets this right. The smallest turkey is simply too big for most average Christmas dinner tables, and the size of the bird seems to have a knock-on effect on the number [...]

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Boxing Day turkey sandwiches, or how to dent the turkey mountain

December 26, 2010 Food & drink

Cooking a turkey on Christmas Day is a faintly ridiculous idea. If you take an average bird of, say, 6kg in weight, you can comfortably feed at least a dozen people and probably an awful lot more than that. A bird of such colossal size pushes the physical limits of a lot of smaller domestic [...]

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Turkey and stuffing croquettes

December 26, 2009 Food & drink

My son just asked why everything he’d eaten over the past two days had turkey in it. It was a good question. We told him that it’s traditional to cram an entire year’s worth of turkey consumption into a single week at the end of December, and that there was plenty more to come over [...]

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Porchetta, or slow roasted Italian loin of pork

April 29, 2009 Food & drink

The loin of a pig is a magnificent cut of meat, a dense strip of heavy meat flanked by part of the belly and encased in skin destined to crackle, nested in a cradle of bones. As a joint, this has everything. Preparation is simple, and the most important parts happen in the butcher’s shop. [...]

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Leftover turkey and leek pie

December 28, 2008 Food & drink

Coming up with something new to do with leftover turkey is one of the great cooking challenges of Christmas. This pie should help. As this is a ‘leftovers’ recipe, all quantities are flexible, depending on what you’ve got left over. Chop some bacon, maybe six rashers and fry in a large frying pan until it [...]

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