If you’re a busy person, time poor and stressed, you can find it difficult to allocate your precious time to cook a decent meal. I know, I’ve been there. That used to be my life. I ended up using my time-poor situation as an excuse to eat shit food. It eventually made me fat and burdened me with a bunch of physical ailments. I then learned to be slightly more cunning with how I spend time in the kitchen. This meal is one of those answers to being successfully frugal: it’s a celebration of leftovers, and there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, I actually go out of my way to cook too much of some dishes because it’s the leftovers I’m more interested in – arancini is a good example, which I make from left-over risotto or paella. Tacos are also a good way to mop up leftovers. Often when I roast a large cut of meat, there’s too much for the family to eat for dinner so the leftovers end up in tacos the following night.