Any type of homemade pasta sauce. My tomato basil and alfredo sauces ALWAYS taste even better the next day. You can really taste the herbs and garlic once they’ve infused into the sauce overnight.
Pretty much anything considered a stew with the exception of fish or seafood based stews (seafood is almost guaranteed to become overcooked upon reheating).
Rice – reheating cooked rice that has been cooled for 24 hours reduces the calories and carbs and increases resistant starch. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/
Any soup, stew, or curry is going to taste better the day after since it gives the water more time to pull flavor out of the various ingredients. Same goes for a lot of casserole dishes too.
I remember my mom used to make a chicken broccoli casserole that was so much better the day after that she started preparing them a day in advance so they’d taste better the night we were actually supposed to eat it.
It’s said that one reason fried chicken became popular with the Southern Black Americans is that it holds so well. When you’re not allowed to eat in the restaurant, a dish that is still delicious after sitting in the bag for a few hours (or a full day) is a real treat.
Mac & Cheese. Refrigerate it. Once fully cold and cheese has congealed over the noodle, microwave it. When it’s piping hot smother it in ketchup and stir until ketchup has an even layer all over the pasta.
Best cheap and day after meal. It might be my Canadian side and love for ketchup coming out…
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Stew. When you reheat it, the meat becomes even more tender.
Any kind of curry
Basically anything with rice.
Salsa
Pizza
pizza, straight out of the fridge
Might be controversial but pasta
Or muffins
Curry
Goulash
Hotdish, Bear Creek Pasta or Grizzly skins.
I know these are all from Minnesota, but it’s just a coincidence.
Chili
Chili
soup.
Pizza
Lasagna
Irish stew
Gumbo
I’ve had a doner kebab the day after, it definitely healed something In my hungover soul
Salt and pepper chicken from the Chinese, anything from the Chinese for that matter
Chili
Spaghetti
Mississippi pot roast
Pretty much anything stewed. So, chili, soups, etc.
Also, most casseroles.
Macaroni salad
cold boiled shrimp and crawfish
Barbacoa
Any type of homemade pasta sauce. My tomato basil and alfredo sauces ALWAYS taste even better the next day. You can really taste the herbs and garlic once they’ve infused into the sauce overnight.
The answer is chili.
Lasagna
Soup
Tiramisu
Chili
Chili
Spaghetti
Spaghetti
Cake
Meatloaf!
Taco Soup
Chinese takeaway 🥡
Biryani
Baked Italian dishes like eggplant parm, chicken parm, baked ziti, lasagna etc.
My mom’s potato salad.
Tiramisu
The answer is always PIZZA
Pretty much anything considered a stew with the exception of fish or seafood based stews (seafood is almost guaranteed to become overcooked upon reheating).
White Chicken Chili,
Taco Pizza homemade
Powdered pecan ball cookies.
Chicken and sausage gumbo
Plain rice. Fry it a day later when there’s less moisture.
Most chilis and stews, I find that the extra time helps the flavors meld and develop.
Pasticcio is also good the following day
Anything that’s spicy and will get even spicier a day later.
BIRYANI THE NEXT DAY omgggggg. The way the flavors infuse is just chefs kiss
Spaghetti
Borscht
Lasagna.
Rice – reheating cooked rice that has been cooled for 24 hours reduces the calories and carbs and increases resistant starch.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/
Stew
Strong argument for Irish Stew… but I gotta say I miss my mother’s lasagna the next day. Just barely reheated enough, loved that.
A lot of soups, especially different kinds of bean soups.
Anything smoked. The smoke flavor always seems amped up the next day.
Anything with a tomato base becomes 100% better the next day.
Filipino chicken adobo
Tzatziki
biryani
Everything tastes better the next day.
Spaghetti, add a bit of butter when you heat it up and it’s so much better
spaghetti/lasgana
Curry of any kind 🤌
Chili
Any soup, stew, or curry is going to taste better the day after since it gives the water more time to pull flavor out of the various ingredients. Same goes for a lot of casserole dishes too.
I remember my mom used to make a chicken broccoli casserole that was so much better the day after that she started preparing them a day in advance so they’d taste better the night we were actually supposed to eat it.
Chili
Chicken adobo
Anything with many ingredients.
Chicken & sausage gumbo 🙂
Chicken ziti broccoli Alfredo! The sauce does something when it sits a good 24 hours
Soups and stews. They need some time to mix.
Pizza
Chili or stew
Chili
Borscht
Rosatis pizza — they’re real greasy but when it cools the cheese and grease thicken up and become the single best hangover breakfast in the world
It’s said that one reason fried chicken became popular with the Southern Black Americans is that it holds so well. When you’re not allowed to eat in the restaurant, a dish that is still delicious after sitting in the bag for a few hours (or a full day) is a real treat.
Soups, stews, chili, etc.
Matzoh Ball Soup
Tiramisu. I will die on this hill
Curry
chili, spaghetti/pasta in general, pot roast, cucumber salad
Carbonara
chimichurri
Beef bourguignon. Chili. Most stew type dishes really.
Lasagna
Chili
Spaghetti
Cake!
Bake it today and eat it tomorrow. Whipped cream, layers of chocolate, fruit, whatever. It all comes together over 24 hours.
Eat it the next day and you will thank me.
Smoked pork shoulder.
Baked Spaghetti. My dad always called it Used spaghetti.
Carrot cake
Hear me out.
Wasabi Cesar Salad.
Spaghetti. I never eat Spaghetti on the day that it’s made. Always tomorrow.
Mac n cheese
probably controversial but stroganoff or cheesy enchilada rice hamburger helper
Alright hear me out.
Mac & Cheese. Refrigerate it. Once fully cold and cheese has congealed over the noodle, microwave it. When it’s piping hot smother it in ketchup and stir until ketchup has an even layer all over the pasta.
Best cheap and day after meal. It might be my Canadian side and love for ketchup coming out…
Most are probably better exept pizza
Meatloaf
Bolognese sauce. Fantastic on toast for breakfast or as a lunch toastie. Always better the next day and of course home made.
Chili
Pizza
Fried chicken
Chili. Also day old rice is best for fried rice.
Any stew,curry,chili,…would be best to eat the day after.
Spaghetti sauce.
Curry
Soups
Spaghetti
Short-Ribs
Spaghetti
Pot roast
Spaghetti
Banana Pudding
Many Indian curries are best the day after. Yes, I realize that’s a ridiculously broad category.
Chili, curry, any type of stew
Curry
Any sauce, stew, or soup. I’m pretty sure braising holds true to this as well, I just don’t do it often enough to weigh in with any authority.
My understanding is that the extra day allows everything to blend and any chemical reactions that are taking place will reach their end result.
Be patient…you – and those you feed – will definitely be rewarded.
Pizza. Whether it’s delivery or not. The best way to eat pizza is cold, out of the fridge, the next morning. Don’t even heat it up
Cheesecake
Coleslaw
Coleslaw
Curry.
Any curry
Curry.
A rum cake.
Pizza
ALSO SOUP OR ANY STEW! Lasagna too..
Pasta salad.
Spaghetti
Lasagna
potato salad
Lasagna,
Soup beans or chili
Chili.
Chinese food.