I am... the worst seafood snob because people would come down from Alaska/the Canadian west coast with their extremely fresh catch and sell out of their boat to people on the island. This was my seafood experience from 10 to 20, fish and such from these people, hardly handled, short transit time. God it was incredible and I miss it so much. Not to be too melodramatic but I love the ocean and so much of what comes out of it and I want to live on a coast again.
What's your favourite 'the next day' food? For example I like to cook chili the day before I actually intend to eat it because imo it's much better if the flavours had time to melt and mingle over night
ohhhh next day chili is the best hmm....i made pumpkin soup once, and it was mediocre until the next day, where it was absolutely fucking fantastic after the flavors had had a chance to get to know each other. not sure if that's a favorite though potato salad? or, leftover chicken/turkey, put that shit on a sandwich mm mm good
Take out lo mein, eaten cold and straight from the box. It's the best Second choice is of course pizza, usually cold. Pizza gets weird when reheated
If you have a toaster oven u can just stick pizza in that, set it to like middling, and it is good to go!
stroganoff is pretty great cold from the fridge, i like it just as much cold as fresh i think, and it reheats well. i just. really really really like stroganoff. stroganoff and alfredo are my pasta sauce things that i will literally eat every time i'm hungry until its gone worst thing reheated is mac n cheese. it's always so much worse somehow.
I like a pretty traditional beef or lamb stew the next day/several days/etc. A lot of soups seem to do well with a little bit of a sit.
Soups and stews definitely do better for sitting in the fridge for a day. And fried rice is DEFINITELY way better the second time around. (Or third, if you manage to avoid scarfing it all by the second day.)
Chinese take-out is old reliable when it comes to next day foods. Pesto pasta is also very good for it. On the flip side, STEAK IS THE WORST NEXT DAY FOOD. No matter how well prepared it is, no matter how juicy and tender it was when you had it, being in the fridge over night makes the texture into something resembling rubber if it worked the way it does in cartoons.
Honestly, I think most, if not, all fish is. Exception being things like crab cakes where it's not just like a hunk of seasoned fish.
i agree that keeping it in the fridge objectively ruins steak but i find something oddly appealing about just stick that rubbery piece of cold bullshit meat in my mouth and eating it that way it's comforting like how cold pizza and flat pepsi for breakfast is
If you want steak to keep decently, the best way to do it is to keep it in a slab and very lightly sear the outside and then once its cooled, cut it into thin slices for eating in a wrap or sandwich the next day. With salmon, flake that bad boy and put some dressing on it, keep it in a covered bowl, have it with salad or something. They both lose too much moisture in the cooling and reheating process to be good otherwise.
