A follow-up to author and cook Tamar Adler’s 2011 food book, An Everlasting Meal, this cookbook is all about maximising your food leftovers with minimal effort. And that is showcased through the 1,500-plus recipes the book has to offer – these aren’t all individual dishes, with many pages offering more ideas to use up what your kitchen has.
The Everlasting Meal Cookbook is divided into categories like ‘fruits and nuts’, ‘smoothie, any’, and ‘shallots, too many’ to demonstrate you can transform anything into something new. Leftover-burrito fried rice and stale-doughnut bread pudding, anyone?
The book breaks moulds and pushes you to think creatively – for example, if you don’t have coriander, “anything bright and hopefully green” that’s used in hot-weather food is okay. Do you have an empty jar? Use it to make your noodle dressing or barbecue sauce. It’s a clever, frugal and eco-conscious cookbook for the time-strapped and curious.
