Mashed Potatoes and Dreaded Leftovers

[KurtisM]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post about ideas for food, but I'll try.

 

What do you guys do when you have leftover potatoes. How do you recook them, and reuse them?

I recently tried making potato patties from leftover mashed up potatoes, but they didn't come out well- perhaps because I didn't add anything like onions or zucchini to them. And perhaps they were too big to fry as well.

I don't use oil and do look for recipes without it, but my expertise is poor.

 

In general I honestly suck right now at recooking leftovers. Only soup has worked well in this regard. So to go further I'd like to ask how you all recook any food.

My foods at the moment are often bland (except my salads, they're great), and I'd like to expand my expertise beyond shitty leftovers, occasional oatmeals and fruity salads.

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by KurtisM

[Juni]

I usually warm them up again and add extra  plain soy milk and some vegan butter or parmesan.

[Sarah]

Leftover potatoes are great on pizza (just slice them up and add them as toppings before baking). I also eat them in salads (green salads, or even quinoa salads, hot or cold). Potatoes make everything better, in my opinion.

Edited September 4, 2017 by Sarah

[ckaricai]

Leftover mashed potatoes can be used to make a Shepard's pie. You can substitute the meat with mushrooms and eggplant that you have squeezed moisture out of. 

 

To fry fry up some leftover mashed potatoes form them into small patties and place them on a cookie sheet and wrap in Saran Wrap and freeze for a few hours or overnight. The next day use the standard breading procedure (using panko instead of breadcrumbs) and bake them in the oven until golden brown. If you want a little more body add a little bit of flour and either eggs or some sort of vegan ingredient to help it hold together like maybe agar agar or xantham gum. You could also mix them with freshly grated potatoes, freeze them and make tater tots instead of patties. 

 

You could add a ton of milk of any kind and cook up some leaks and make potato leak soup. 

 

I like turning leftovers into either soups or frittatas, or like a dump pizza. But for soups leftovers work really well with ramen noodles cause you just heat up the food and place it on top of the. noodles and broth. This works great with bibimbop too. You just chop everything up and make a fancy rice bowl. 

Edited September 4, 2017 by ckaricai

[PPLD]

29 minutes ago, ckaricai said:

Leftover mashed potatoes can be used to make a Shepard's pie. You can substitute the meat with mushrooms and eggplant that you have squeezed moisture out of. 

 

To fry fry up some leftover mashed potatoes form them into small patties and place them on a cookie sheet and wrap in Saran Wrap and freeze for a few hours or overnight. The next day use the standard breading procedure (using panko instead of breadcrumbs) and bake them in the oven until golden brown. If you want a little more body add a little bit of flour and either eggs or some sort of vegan ingredient to help it hold together like maybe agar agar or xantham gum. You could also mix them with freshly grated potatoes, freeze them and make tater tots instead of patties. 

 

You could add a ton of milk of any kind and cook up some leaks and make potato leak soup. 

 

I like turning leftovers into either soups or frittatas, or like a dump pizza. But for soups leftovers work really well with ramen noodles cause you just heat up the food and place it on top of the. noodles and broth. This works great with bibimbop too. You just chop everything up and make a fancy rice bowl. 

 

Can I come for dinner when I'm in NYC? Jeez gal, you know this shit!!!

(I'm fasting, so I am just.so.hungry. right now ?)

[ckaricai]

5 hours ago, PPLD said:

 

Can I come for dinner when I'm in NYC? Jeez gal, you know this shit!!!

(I'm fasting, so I am just.so.hungry. right now )

 

Ha! You sure can. :)

[Evelin]

Or, for soup, add pureed cooked pumpkin (and your favorite spices) and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds to serve.

[Yin-da]

This is not answering your questions, but I'll share it anyway since it's about mashed potatoes...

I 'invented' a new kind of mashed potatoes for myself; so after mashing the potatoes I added green currypaste and coconutmilk and salt. I love that mixture.

[Evelin]

I sometimes mix caramelized (or raw if) chopped onions into mashed potatoes.

There's also an Estonian dish that mixes (pre-cooked) barley pearls into mashed potatoes (originally also pieces of meat or lard, but let's skip that), it adds some texture but it's rather bland and not to everyone's taste.

My mother used to simply stir and fry leftover mashed potatoes until golden crisp, but you'd probably need oil for that.

You could also mix the potato mass with herbs and whatever else and use as stuffing for stuffed bell peppers or smth like that.

 

[KurtisM]

Omg it's so nice to see you guys respond to this.

I love your idea Ingun. I have some of both lying around.

If I ever get a dehydrator or air fryer I could do that frying thing Evelin, before I went vegan fried potatoes are what my parents made me. I do like the idea of herbs and onions. Maybe even hummus too!

Edited November 16, 2018 by KurtisM

[petra]

@KurtisM   My Mashed Potatoes for your taste bud delight !!!

 

2/3 thirds potatoes ( I like the purple ones)

1/3     "      apples

cook em together 

garlic cloves, as many as you can master

1 onion ( I like the purple ones)

fresh ground black pepper, nutmeg, Cayenne pepper, and salt

orange juice 

black olives on top and fresh parsley

Edited November 17, 2018 by petra