Leftovers

I saw these ridiculously-named freezer bags mentioned at The Kitchn, and they got me to thinking.

I have a confession to make.

I'm horrible about leftovers. I have a tendency to make far too much food.^* This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I also have a tendency to forget that I have leftovers in the refrigerator. Things often get forgotten until they are no longer good to eat.

Whole chickens are a great bargain. If you just roast a chicken and set it out on the table to be picked clean, though, you're probably only going to get a single meal out of a chicken (maybe with some leftovers). With a bit of planning, you can make a single chicken go much farther than that.

StillTasty is a potentially useful website that provides guidelines on how long your food will remain good to eat if kept in storage. It contains information on how long things will keep in the pantry, in the refrigerator, and in the freezer. It also contains storage tips.

Unfortunately, it doesn't contain individual citations indicating information sources. The only citation information that I see indicates that the information was gleaned primarily from a variety of U.S. government agencies.

Today's lunch came together well. Let me tell you its story:

On Saturday, Angela and I were at the grocery store. We decided to pick up something for dinner. Burgers? Sure. We had a jar of pickled beetroot in the cupboard, and we'd been planning on finding out if Australians (who we heard put beets on burgers) are crazy or geniuses. We both like our burgers on the rare side, but I'm wary of pre-ground beef, so I picked up a cheap steak to grind at home.

Image by Andrew MagillOver at The Kitchn (one of my favorite blogs), there is a discussion about the best way to reheat leftover rice. I know that I am a horrible judge of quantities of certain foods, and rice is one of them. Unless I'm really careful, I tend to make far too much of it. As a result, I was curious as to how the discussion went.

Leftover wine? What's that? Suppose, for a moment, that someone happened to have a bit of leftover wine in the bottom of a bottle that they were not prepared to drink immediately. It is certainly possible, at least in theory. If you were that person, what would you do?