Book review of Second Helpings by Sue Quinn

An astonishing 30-40% of meals goes to waste within the U.S. “As well as being financially foolish, wasting food damages the planet because it accelerates climate change,” notes meals author and cookbook creator Sue Quinn in her newest cookbook, Second Helpings: Delicious Dishes to Transform Your Leftovers, which goals to maintain meals from our personal kitchens out of the trash. Quinn kicks off with a chapter of recipes for base dishes (soup, pasta bake, risotto, to call a number of) that educate the reader abilities that can be utilized for on a regular basis meals. She strikes to sections on small plates, mild meals, fundamental meals, candy issues and ins and outs, the final of which incorporates methods to include leftovers resembling mashed potatoes, salad greens and the spoonfuls and scrapings left in varied sorts of jarred meals.The e-book’s construction offers many various choices for every recipe, leading to quite a few dishes to make use of up the objects you have got readily available. I made the roast dinner enchiladas utilizing some cooked hen from the evening earlier than, sliced peppers and jarred tomatoes, which remodeled into a tremendous sauce when simmered with Quinn’s prompt combine of spices. Second Helpings is the right blueprint for repurposing leftover meals into different nutritious, scrumptious meals.