An easy recipe for stuffed tomatoes using leftover veggies and meat dishes, from Jocelyn Deprez, author, The Refrigerator Files: Creative Makeovers for Leftovers. Read More

You made a lovely meatloaf. You even got a couple of good sandwiches out of its cold remains. But you still have that little chunk left over. And as luck would have it, you happen to have a nice plump eggplant or two in your vegetable bin. What could be a happier marriage than Read More

When upcycling your decorative pumpkin this year, why stop at pie, when so many tasty recipes exist to use up the entire ‘kin? Following are our recipes for Honey Pumpkin Walnut Bread, Pumpkin Coffee Creamer, and Toasted Pumpkin Seeds. It All Starts with Upcycled Pumpkin Read More

I have always felt that bread was sacred, so all my life I have tried to save the scraps. When they get to be overwhelming, I simply cut them into cubes for croutons or make bread crumbs. To save stale bread, it’s best just to let it dry out in an unsealed container, like a paper Read More

Here you are, the day after Big Turkey Day, facing all those containers of leftovers stuffed into your refrigerator. Wastehater that you are, you resisted throwing half of them out last night. So now you’re stuck. Honor commands that you deal with them creatively, dazzling your Read More

You just finished celebrating Halloween. Wastehater that you are, you swapped your costumes, made new ones out of hand-me-downs, bought healthy candy, saved your small change, and had a ball decorating your front yard. You bought a real pumpkin and carved it perfectly.  You might Read More

By Jocelyn Deprez Today a quick lunch for two was in order, the main requisite being a soup. So I pulled two containers of vegetables left over from the past two evenings’ meals from the fridge and combined their contents in a saucepan. Read More

Who wouldn’t like to be stuck with a nice big chunk of cooked salmon? Such a versatile treasure! Salmon salad, salmon sandwiches; in crêpes, timbales, aspic, pasta; creamed on toast, etc. – the list goes on.  Having recently once again overestimated the consumption capacity Read More

By Jocelyn Deprez To our joy, my daughter Tae heard about a seafood wholesale outlet nearby, and on our first visit we discovered very affordable cooked 1¼-pound lobsters. After a happy feast, the time came to deal with a mountain of shells. Wastehaters that we both are, she Read More

By Jocelyn Deprez Since we eat a lot of fish in our small household, the leftovers present an on-going challenge. One of my favorite dishes to use up the fish and maybe also some leftover veggies is to make timbales…timWHAT? Let me reassure you that this exotic- and Read More

By Jocelyn Deprez So there I was with two small chunks of sautéed swordfish and half a stuffed filet of flounder. Last night, after considering stuffed tomatoes or timbales, I decided to go with stuffed crêpes. Sounds complicated, but really the only bit of “work” involved would Read More