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Meals from leftovers - tuna and cheese tarts

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

tuna tarts topped with cheese
tuna tarts topped with cheese
Today, upon daring to open the fridge door, I was confronted with enough tuna to make a small sandwich, a tablespoon or so of sweetcorn, half a red pepper, a couple tablespoons of double cream, a small square of cheese and some broccoli.

I ended up making some twelve amazing savoury tarts that would have given higgidy pies http://www.higgidy.co.uk/ a run for their money. Little Miss Green said ‘You could charge at least #5 for one of these - couldn’t she Dad?’
So cute - they were the size of jam tarts :D

I made some pastry, cut it into twelve three inch circles and lined a jam tart tin with them.
Then mixed up the tuna, sweetcorn, diced pepper, double cream and added some tomato

Don’t throw ‘leftovers’ away - start to see them as ingredients
Don’t throw ‘leftovers’ away - start to see them as ingredients
ketchup so that it was a paste consistency.
I put a generous teaspoon of the filling into each of the pastry cases and topped with a little grated cheese.

While they were cooking in the oven, I steamed the broccoli.

Et voila - a really tasty meal made from scraps that might otherwise have been thrown away.
They had a big thumbs up from my two, so I can claim success with this one and will be making it again. They were a bit like posh canapes you’d pay a fortune to buy.

Instead of seeing ‘left overs’, why not view these goodies as ‘ingredients’ and let your imagination run free. Check out the Love Food, Hate Waste http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/ site for ideas if cooking if you prefer to follow a set recipe.

 

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