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Great Soup Using Leftovers

Submitted by: Gale Osborn  06/07/2009 8:17 PM
 
Hope you have a freezer or space in refridgerator freezer. Place in freezer a container (an ice-cream bucket is perfect). After each meal place all leftovers into the bucket.

After saving the leftovers for two weeks or so make a wonderful soup at little or no extra cost. Add boullion to the broth to make it very tasty. I've used chicken and or beef. Bits of chicken, beef( including hamburger) porkchops or roast tastes good. Always pour the juice from the veggies into the bucket.

If you need a filler to thicken it use macaroni or rice or noodles. Through in the fresh veggies in the fridg. that need to be cooked. I always add a can of tomatoes also. Make a big pot and freeze for another meal or two. It cost about the same to cook two meals or more at a time. Gale Osborn
Aurora, Tx

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We call this "refrigerator stew." I don't put everything into a common bucket. Just once in a while access leftovers and sometimes it all just looks like stew. This works really well, especially if I avoid conflicting spices. I figure out how deep my soup pot needs to be to feed my family once around the table, so that I don't leftovers, and don't make more than that amount. I just keep adding leftovers and broth until I come up to that level in my pot. Then I serve this with some nice homemade bread.

One of the nice thing about leftovers in general is that they're quick (or quicker) to prepare because everything is already cooked. I have other things I do with leftovers, such as making pot pie, quiche and casseroles. It's fun to see how many different containers I can use up in one dish, and it is especially thrilling when the family volunteers this meal was really good.

We are so far out of the loop as a culture, that we don't understand that many dishes... soup, pot pie, casseroles, pasta salad, potato salad and so on, were invented specifically to use up leftovers. Now people make those same dishes from virgin ingredients which is more work and more expensive (especially when using things like canned soup, and canned broth).
 
Posted by anonymous on June 09, 2009 6:51 AM
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Other names for my Left Overs Stew-
My dad called it Hobo Stew
my brother called it Slum Gullion
A friend called it Fish Heads and Rice
my grandson called it Cowboy Stew
What ever it's called it's GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Posted by Gale Osborn on June 09, 2009 1:36 PM
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My kids call it bag soup because I put my left overs in a zip lock bag in the freezer. It takes up less space that way and I can remember what all I put in it.
 
Posted by anonymous on June 09, 2009 8:59 PM
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My kids call it freezer burn soup
 
Posted by M in NM on June 15, 2009 6:54 PM
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I'm not sure about refreezing the soup though. If any of it was frozen to begin with and then refrozen as leftovers and then refrozen as soup,that would be three times. What do you think?
 
Posted by anonymous on July 30, 2009 2:53 AM
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