Every so often, usually when we know things are going to get real busy, my wife and I will cook up a lot of food all at once. Several kinds of food and in large amounts. This gets packaged as individual meals and frozen for use later. Invariably when I tell people about this someone says \u201cI could never do that because I hate leftovers.\u201d What? These are not leftovers but precooked meals. So the first thing I don\u2019t get is why people see this as \u201cleftovers.\u201d Lots of people prepare foods in advance. My wife started cooking yesterday, we made a huge amount of stuffing for example, for Thanksgiving today. Are those foods leftovers? Of course not. How is that different from what we do? The freezing?<\/p>\n
And what is the problem with leftovers anyway? Most things reheat very well. And a great many things just plain taste better the next day. Anything with a sauce for example will usually taste better because the flavors have gotten deeper into the food. Sure some things dry out or otherwise as not as good but we don\u2019t cook those things for later use. Rather we pick things that store well, reheat well, and taste as good or better when eaten later. Am I to believe that just because they were not cooked that day they are no good? Bah! What\u2019s with those people?<\/p>\n
Well I\u2019m going to grab some left over Chinese food and enjoy myself. Later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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