Secrets of Great Second Meals: Flexible Modern Recipes That Value Time and Limit Waste
(By Sara Dickerman)
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At Sara’s house, re-invention might mean pureeing roasted vegetables into a quick soup, crafting a beautiful salad with some second-day salmon, or stuffing cooked rice into roasted poblano peppers. But unlike other cookbooks that emphasize thrift, Secrets of Great Second Meals focuses on creating inviting, sophisticated, and healthy recipes that are open-ended enough to adapt to what you have on hand.
Sara shows how to make the most of your food the way chefs by thinking of meals in a more modular way. With a little thoughtful planning, you can look at extra food from one dinner as components to another meal that has already been prepped. Sara provides a list of the top ten most versatile dishes for multiple meals, offers advice on food storage (how to wrap it, when to put it in the fridge, when to freeze it, and when to throw it out), and includes tips on adding freshness and flavor using salt, acids, herbs, and texture. Most importantly, she gives home cooks the tools they need to learn how to improvise confidently.
The recipes in Secret of Great Second Meals are meant to be flexible, and Sara gives home cooks plenty of cues on how they can be adapted to fit what in the fridge and pantry for dishes such
The Meatball Frittata with Mozzarella and Tomatoes (extra meatballs)The Quinoa Quinoa Bowl with Greens, Sweet Potatoes, and Turmeric Cream (extra cooked quinoa, roasted sweet potatoes, and cooked greens)The Chicken Ginger-Scallion Chicken Salad with Cucumbers (extra roasted chicken)The Chunky Chile-Laced Turkey-Vegetable Tortilla Soup (extra shredded turkey or chicken and roasted vegetables)Deli Sandwich with a Hot Ham and Cheese with Dill Pickle Relish (extra cooked ham)The Fish Black Cod Cakes with Cilantro, Scallions, and Tomato Salad (extra cooked fish and cooked potatoes)The Pesto Parsley and Celery Pesto with Whole Wheat Spaghetti, Sausage, and Broccoli (extra cooked Italian sausage and broccoli)The Rice Saffron Rice Pudding (extra cooked rice)Illustrated with full-color photos throughout, Secrets of Great Second Meals makes re-imagining food for a second meal not just a good, cheap, un-wasteful thing to do, but way of making everyday eating more inventive and enticing.”
