cover image Secrets of Great Second Meals: Flexible Modern Recipes That Value Time and Limit Waste

Secrets of Great Second Meals: Flexible Modern Recipes That Value Time and Limit Waste

Sarah Dickerman. Morrow, $30 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-267297-1

Dickerman (Bon Appetit: The Food Lover’s Cleanse), James Beard Award–winning food writer and chef, presents more than 100 versatile recipes that contain the “seeds of your next glorious meal” and “upcycle” and “reanimate” leftovers. Home cooks will find plenty of recommendations to create second meals or to use as building blocks for other dishes such ingredients as cooked fish refashioned as spicy salmon pancakes; greens in a curried swiss chard soufflé or quinoa bowl with turmeric cream sweet potatoes; or enchiladas rojas jumpstarted by roasted chicken. Bread crumbs form the base of a Swedish-style apple cake, while leftover rice becomes creamy saffron pudding. The flexible recipes provide options to swap out ingredients or to use add-ins. Recipe charts index various interchangeable ingredients; sidebars instruct on such techniques as how to tackle flank steak, toast seeds, or preserve lemons. These practical and imaginative recipes are an invitation to “start riffing with the contents of your refrigerator” and encourage a new perspective on leftovers. (Feb.)