With all the entertaining this time of the year, a refrigerator, bursting at the seams with leftover food is no surprise. Of course, you can warm and eat them as it is the next day, but why do it the boring old way. We got some innovative minds to share recipes of dishes that may be better than the original dish. This is what they came up with!

Make it meetha

Chef Sushil Multani of Cafe Panama thinks that gingerbread cookies represent festivities because it is made especially during this time of the year. “They taste best when they just come fresh out of the oven. Once Christmas Eve has passed, the cookie loses its importance, but can be used in many ways since it is very flavourful and versatile,” says Multani. He crushes the cookies and folds them in churned vanilla ice cream and adds overnight rum-soaked raisins to it, to give it a punch and character. “Don’t serve anyone less than three scoops,” he laughs.