Random tots
August 12th, 2006 at 6:45pm |
Tots. As in tater. An item of food that tastes almost good cold as leftovers as hot.
Pizza, of course. Why heat it up when you can eat it cold? Pizza doesn’t reheat well anyway, unless you do it in the oven. And I’m far to lazy to do that. So microwaving just makes it soggy. I prefer cold.
Curry. My own recipe, which usually amounts to whatever I care to throw in there, including tofu, curry paste, coconut milk and potatoes. I do love curry warmed back up, but I also like stealing a few bites cold as I’m too impatient while the curry is reheating.
Add you own. What else tastes just as good cold?
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Cold fried chicken. Better than pizza, in my opinion. You wake up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep. You go to the refrigerator and take out a plae of the Colonel’s crispy. Pour a glass of water, and enjoy the very best cold meal of leftovers.
Well, I seem to eat most of my food at work cold, because I take so long to eat it! I’ll go with the fried chicken though. Bad for you, but oh so yummy
Just as good cold… you’ve presented a riddle to my poor noggin. Microwaving solves all ills in my book.
I suppose anything that would be objectionably soggy microwaved. Bacon and fried chicken come to mind. Sometimes day-old biscuits. Blech–this is getting more unappetizing the more I think of it. Just eat it all the first day.
I’m not a big leftovers fan at all. I don’t do cold pizza or cold chicken. I cannot think of a single thing I would eat that isn’t already served cold!
chicken/turkey pot pies … mmmmmm …
Don’t know about fried chicken (wouldn’t that skin be kinda icky?), but chicken generally IS better cold on the second day. I’ll agree with cold curry too–especially the potatoes. Yum! Cold pork loin’s pretty good too, as is cold lasagna. AND cold vegetable beef soup (at least mine is pretty good that way, especially the cold lima beans which I pick out and eat while the rest is warming in a pan.
Never have understood folks who don’t like leftovers. Sometimes I look forward to getting through a meal the first day so I can eat them as leftovers the next.
I go hot and cold on leftovers. (Groan here)
It depends on the meal. I love curry so much, I will eat it long past my normal interest date in leftovers. I’ll also eat potato soup forever. And a vegetarian tuscan soup I’ve learned how to make. But some leftovers, no matter how good the first day, I’m often not as interested in. I don’t know why. I know my brother was never big on leftovers. But I’ll still eat them for a couple of days.
Ooh, stuffing and mashed potatoes. Don’t care how old those dishes are.
In fact, stuffing is one of those things I’ll happily eat cold, though I’m not sure I could argue that it’s as good as it is hot. There’s something about first-cooked stuffing that’s unbeatable.
Mmm. Stuffing. Need stuffing.
But there is a certain range when anything that’s still in the fridge I won’t touch, even if technically still good.
Oh, yes. Cold stuffing. The day after Thanksgiving (or at 11 the night of), there’s something delightfully sneaky about a forkful of cold stuffing, best eaten with the fridge door wide open, fork tracks left for all to see. Still, I agree stuffing’s best the first time around, preferably scooped right out of the bird. Something about how the bread keeps on absorbing juices so that it’s drier the second time around.
So how long do you let things sit in the fridge before they become unconsumable to you? For me, it’s only a few days, three being about the limit.
My parents are scary that way–they can eat leftovers for going on a week and sometimes more. I ALWAYS ask how long something’s been in my parents’ fridge before I eat it.
Roles are reversed for my mom and me. I’d be running across my apartment in da bend, leaping over tables and chairs, sticking out my arm in sloooooooooow motion and yelling, “nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…” when my mom looked in danger of drinking random milk from the refrigerator. Without checking the date. Doesn’t she know???
Hard boiled eggs. AND, cherry pie. They both taste great, hot or cold.
Mmm. Pie, yes, either way is good. I didn’t know people ate hard boiled eggs hot, however.
That’s funny, Heather, the noooooo!
My brother was visiting in Niles, and he needed some milk for the baby (Brendan, I think.) I didn’t think to tell him there were two milks in there, one good and one very bad…
Luckily, he didn’t get as far as putting it the kid’s mouth, but it did get in the bottle.
He wondered why I’d keep bad milk.
Hah!
I wonder if he knows now, or if there are too many milk drinkers in his house to never have that problem.
Anyway, as to the age of leftovers…. two to three days. Two is really my comfortable limit. Three if I’m desperate.
And for some reason, restaurant leftovers become quickly unappealing. If I don’t eat them within the first 24 hours, I’m almost always not interested.
It’s the styrofoam containers restaurant leftovers come in. I’m convinced that’s the problem. That and you always end up with little letuce shreds/garnishes in with the edibles. Puts me off too.