Cooking with Scraps recipes and how-tos from Food52

How to Chip Away at Your Stash of Bacon Fat

by: Caroline Lange|January 25, 2016

Cauliflower

Cauliflower Leaves Have a New Purpose in Life

Set any suspicions aside: Those greens deserved to be eaten—in this risotto.

by: Lindsay-Jean Hard|January 24, 2016

Vegetable

Meet the Winner of Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge

A big congratulations to lisina, whose Eggless Strata with Butternut, Sausage, Kale and Fontina was voted Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge.

by: Food52|January 20, 2016

Dessert

How Alice Medrich Turns Leftovers into Dessert

Anyone can turn leftovers into dinner. It takes a special someone to turn leftovers into dessert.

by: Sarah Jampel|January 18, 2016

Leftovers

Community Picks: Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge

The results are in—here are the recipes our community loved from Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge.

by: Food52|January 15, 2016

Coffee

Your Coffee Grounds Have a Much Better Fate Than the Compost

Don't toss your grounds! Do this instead.

by: Caroline Lange|January 15, 2016

Pot Pie

Finalists: Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge

We've tested and tasted our way through the recipes for Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge and have emerged with two promising finalists.

by: Food52|January 15, 2016

Cake

A Lunch for When There's Nothing in the Fridge

A nothing-in-the-fridge lunch—plus chocolate cake—for Amanda's kids' lunch.

by: Amanda Hesser|January 14, 2016

Grains

7 Ways to Make Leftover Oatmeal a Lot More Exciting

Leftover oatmeal? Don't you dare toss it.

by: Caroline Lange|January 11, 2016

Bread

10 Ways to Use Up a Whole Loaf of Bread (Especially the Stale Parts)

No crumb left behind.

by: Caroline Lange|January 4, 2016

Candy

11 Reasons Not to Toss Your Post-Holiday Candy Canes

Leftover candy canes never looked so good.

by: Caroline Lange|December 28, 2015

Long Reads

This Whole Dinner Would Have Been Thrown Away—But Wasn't

Relearning how to cook with and eat "waste."

by: Caroline Lange|December 26, 2015

Pantry

Our Latest Contest: Your Best Recipe that Cleans Out the Fridge

For our latest contest, clean out the fridge and the pantry. Then tell us what you made.

by: Food52|December 21, 2015

Drinks

How Blue Hill Makes Punch With Leftover Whey, Tea, and Beer

Wait! Don't toss those tea bags (or yogurt, or flat beer).

by: Samantha Weiss Hills|December 16, 2015

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Bacon

How to Chip Away at Your Stash of Bacon Fat