There is nothing better than a fresh home cooked dish that is your favorite meal. I don't know about you but it seems to lack something when you can't finish the meal, put it in the fridge, and have it again the next day.
I am not a fan of leftovers, I prefer to eat something when it comes fresh off the stove or hot out of the oven.
It is nice to not have to cook or clean up the mess when you have leftovers, but the food itself almost always tastes bland and lacks that freshness it had the day before. The worst dishes to eat the day after almost always have vegetables in it. The veggies are always rubbery and become so soft that it's almost like eating mush.
I don't care if it is a waste of food and money, anytime I cook with vegetables and don't end up eating all of them, the leftover vegetables always end up in the garbage. I will not eat leftover veggies.
Another item that doesn't keep well in the refrigerator is salad, but I guess that falls into the vegetable category, unless you have a noodle salad of some sort. Any sort of lettuce salad becomes mushy and in my opinion, disgusting. I have seen people eat leftover Caesar salad and the lettuce is brown and wilted, the croutons reduced to mush. As they eat it they actually slurp it up much like you would hear someone eating a soup, and they claim it tastes delicious.
(I think I may barf just thinking about it.)
I can't be the only one out there that feels this way, I know there are others out there. What else does not keep well for the next day leftovers?
Scott Goerz
