Nick Evans runs the popular food blog macheesmo.com, and he came up with
a simple yet effective concept for everyday cooking: Create one
foundation dish, in decent quantity, when you have the time--perhaps on
a lazy Sunday afternoon--and then repurpose it to make other delicious
dishes throughout the week. Cooking this way saves time and money and
allows busy people to eat well every night. Love Your Leftovers includes
breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert options as well as a wide range of
cuisines. Each main dish will have eight to ten creative recipes for
leftovers. So, if you make a Roast Chicken one night, you can then make
Chicken Tortilla Soup, Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta, or Chicken and
Dumplings another night. A Flank Steak can morph into Spicy Beef Wontons
or Vietnamese Noodle Salad. Spicy Black Beans can become Black Bean
Burgers or Crunchy Black Bean Tacos. Love Your Leftovers will also
feature chapters on kitchen and pantry basics and Meal Planning 101, as
well as a helpful index of vegetarian and thirty-minute meals.