leftover mayhem

Throughout this holiday weekend, every time I walked by my fridge, I’d wince, thinking about the leftovers that were begging to be put to use. Sure, I could easily do a turkey soup, which turned out really good and warmed my little bones up during these past couple of cold days. But the ham was calling out to me. “Eat me before I go bad!” it shouted. I’m a fickler when it comes to leftovers, meaning I only eat them once in while. Holiday leftovers tend to go untouched since I prefer to stomach those dishes only once a year. You really can’t eat turkey more than once a year, especially when the turkey dish is over-the-top.

Well, my food-wasting guilt got the better of me and I decided upon this rich and filling ham and egg tart. It comes from Nick Malgieri’s new book The Modern Baker which I’m sad to say I got about 2 months ago and have yet to crack it open. Talk about buyers remorse! It seemed like a good purchase as I was a fan of Malgieri’s previous baking book, Perfect Cakes. But this one falls flat. While I loved Abigail Dodge Johnson’s Weekend Baker, this take on modern baking doesn’t reasonate as well with me. It feels like the recipes were thrown together haphhazardly, and not quality tested. Lisa noted her troubled results here and after looking at some of the Amazon reviews, it seems her sentiments are universally felt. I need a little more face time with this book in order to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down but let’s just say I wish I would’ve gotten a different book with this money.