Melendres - Leftover Foods: With Optional and Substitutable Ingredients

Leftover
Foods:

With Optional and Substitutable Ingredients
Eat Your Way Every Day!

Everyone wins in this book

Vanesa V. Melendres

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Useful Tips and Information
about Cultures, Faiths and Food Rules

Pan de sal Bread Dough
(Optional and Substitutable Ingredients)

How To Make Cassava Rice
(Sweet Potato Rice and Taro Rice)
(Optional and Substitutable Ingredients)

How To Make Liquid Stocks
(Optional and Substitutable Ingredients)

How To Make Breads Dough
For Paleo Diet, Gluten Free Diet, Diabetic,
Macrobiotic Diet, Vegetarian, Halal Or Kosher

Two Way of Cooking The Cassava Rice
(With Liquids or Without Liquid)

Nasi Lemak Modern Style
(Malaysian coconut rice)

When they had plenty to eat, Jesus said to his disciples, Gather up the leftover pieces, so that nothing will be wasted. So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves that had been left over by those who had eaten. When the people saw that he had done a miraculous sign, they said, This is truly the prophet who is coming into the world. John 6:12-14.

Thank you for purchasing Leftover foods with optional and substitutable ingredients. Eat your way everyday and everyone wins in this book.

I am proud to share this book with everyone. I have done extensive research and gained a lot of insight doing my own experiments. I applied my experience and I am sharing and educating the readers so that they have a better understanding of what they are eating.

We are living in a fast paced, fast food environment and I am proposing a healthier way of eating using leftover foods.

Matthew 25:35-40 New King James Version (NKJV)

for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you? And the King will answer and say to them, Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.

Leftover
Foods:

With Optional and Substitutable Ingredients

My family and friends who taught me in all the way are always be in my heart

Especially my three lovely children Max, Sophia and Marcus

My inspiration forever.

Acknowledgement

First I want to thank GOD for all the guidance by answering all my prayers in the writing of this book so I can share with everybody around the world in this sensible way of living on this planet to know the REALITIES and LOGICAL WAYS that we should be wary to make senses in these aspects.

All my blessings to all the FriesenPress team who taught me how to put it all together, since this was my first experience ever in writing a book, and educating me with their knowledge and experience by channeling my thoughts and ideas and transposing them on paper. Especially the people who worked with me since the first day and to all their staff who were all involved in the development of this incredible book from a simple idea. I was very impressed by all the involvement of each other to work as a team. Thank you so much!

My deepest gratitude to the Alberta Childrens Hospital Foundation Canada and the whole staff of the Alberta Childrens Hospital here in Calgary who were always there to give help and support the needs for the bedridden children, and especially by taking care of my daughter Sophia Anne Beatty for her disability and giving her hope that she will walk sooner and big help with covering a large portion of the very costly major surgery procedures. Through this generosity from Alberta Childrens Hospital Foundation, I voluntarily pledge to donate back to the foundation who provided help for my daughter that each book sold, I will give away a portion of my proceeds to help more kids in need thus keep supporting the Alberta Childrens Hospital Foundation in their mission.

My gratitude goes to my homeland Philippines Samar Island where I was raised. The same region where I was born that was badly slammed by the Super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan international name). All my thoughts are in helping them as well, especially children needing better education. I will resume the education fundraisers initiated by my father (Arthur Bodoy Moralde Melendres) before his unfortunate departure. I will make him proud in carrying on the aid he organized for the scholarship program, childrens care and support.

My grateful thanks to all my classmates who worked as a group in sharing ideas especially my Home Economics teacher, Mrs. Marcia Joriza for all her contribution and knowledge to all her students 1997-2000 and to the Malaga National High School Calbayog City, Western Samar Philippines Culinary Arts Course department. Thank you so much to my entire teaching staff back in my high school days.

My deepest heartfelt love and thanks to my family back in the Philippines for their real love and support like my mother Alma Velacsi Melendres and my siblings. My blessed grace to my three lovely children, Special thanks to their father Mr. Layton Wayne Beatty by supporting me in this project of mine and very thankful to all his family here in Calgary, Canada especially to his siblings and parents Mr. and Mrs. Arthur and Mertie Beatty for all their help by referring and introducing me to FriesenPress Publishing Company who arranged my book in a professional manner.

I wish all my grateful words and respects to everyone. I am fully pleased with happiness that this book is finally completed. If by writing more books of this type, I can improve more peoples lives, I will continue to do so. In this manner these people are winners. THAT IS MY MISSION.

Introduction

Although we see a lot of cookbooks on retail bookstore shelves or online with different and unique ways of cooking, no one has written about dealing with leftover foods, including optional and substitutable ingredients. It is not just about saving food from being thrown out or to save money, it is also about creating tasty and healthy fast food using the leftover food in your cupboards, fridge or freezer.

My aim and goal in writing this book is to help everyone recognize that the ingredients you have in your kitchen can be Optional and Substitutable Ingredients in many of the recipes in this book.

Optional ingredients are those you can use if you have them on hand. Substitutable ingredients are those you are allowed to eat according to your dietary practices (e.g. vegan, gluten free, kosher) .

When I think about leftover foods this way I want people to realize that you can eat in a way that respects your health, diet and faith-based dietary rules. It is about choosing ingredients and adding them to a recipe that makes sense for your health or lifestyle.

A note of caution: More and more we are being educated to become aware of what food we should eat through television and the Internet. Some information is false or misleading so you have to be careful what you believe and adopt.

People have asked why I think this way...

In our multicultural society, food plays a special role across any number of faiths and dietary practices. I want to help people and leave no one behind in being able to use leftover foods in a way that respects their beliefs and practices.

Who are they that they cannot eat whatever we serve at our table?

Faith-based dietary practices

Muslims and halal food

Jewish people and Kosher food

Paleo diet

Macrobiotic diet

Diabetic diet

Vegetarians and a vegetarian diet