River Cottage Love Your Leftovers

Everyone occasionally finds themselves with a bag of wilting salad in the fridge or a hunk of bread that can't even be revived with toasting. But before you throw away those bendy carrots or that slightly sour milk, let Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall show you what flavoursome meals can be whipped up with your languishing ingredients.

In this pocket bible, River Cottage Love Your Leftovers, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall offers nifty and creative ideas to transform leftovers into irresistible meals. Hugh starts by giving practical advice for cooking on a weekly basis with leftovers in mind, helping to save money and avoid waste. He also provides tips on how best to store your ingredients to make them last for as long as possible.

Hugh shares handy recipe templates that can be applied to all kinds of leftover ingredients and provides simple and flexible recipes. He shows, for instance, how you can transform leftover meat into Chilli beef noodles, Stew enchiladas, and Spicy chicken salad with peanut butter dressing. Surplus root vegetables can be turned into Roast root hummus, Quick lentil and parsnip curry, and Beetroot and caraway seed cake. Vegetable peelings can be used to make a quick-and-easy stock.

Featuring a section dedicated to storecupboard ingredients, this book is ideal for anyone looking for inspiration from the back of their shelves.