Leftover Recipes: How to Turn Around Your Takeout

    Take a few minutes -- and a few extra ingredients -- and you can transform your restaurant leftovers into a totally new recipe
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    With 70% of you taking home doggie bags from restaurants, 89% of those leftovers being eaten the next day and 66% of all restaurant meals bought for takeout or delivery, that's a lot of standing in front of the open fridge scarfing down cold chow mein. Take a few minutes -- and a few extra ingredients -- and you can transform your restaurant leftovers into a totally new dish.

    SWEET ONION PORK PIZZA

    Last night's leftovers:
    Baby back ribs

    Transform it tonight:
    BBQ pizza

    et the recipe for Sweet Onion Pork Pizza

    Roasted Whole Turkey

    CHINESE FIVE-SPICE CHICKEN

    Last night's leftovers:
    Vegetable fried rice

    Transform it tonight:
    Stuffed chicken

    Get the recipe for Chinese Five-Spice chicken

    Biscuits in Basket

    CHICKEN BISCUITS WITH BACON GRAVY

    Last night's leftovers:
    Fried chicken

    Transform it tonight:
    Biscuits

    Get the recipe for Chicken Biscuits with Bacon Gravy

    Pasta with Mixed Veggie Sauce

    SMOKED SALMON AND CORN CHOWDER

    Last night's leftovers:
    Fettucine Alfredo

    Transform it tonight:
    Creamy Chowder

    Get the recipe for Smoked Salmon and Corn Chowder

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