Either, you over estimated how much cheese your guests could eat. Or, your guests don’t actually eat the quantities of cheese you wanted to think they did [just to make you feel better about your own vastly greater consumption of cheese]. Either way, you’ve got cheesy leftovers. Throw it away and that’s MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN. And good cheese. Obvi. So here’s what you do.
It’s funny how we often don’t think about what we don’t eat and why we don’t. Cauliflower leaves are one such example. Growing up, it’s what protected the food. Now, it is the food. When you don’t feel like spending on 101 cruciferous veg - that can cost an arm and a leg in some parts of the world - buy the cauliflower and get the best bang for your buck.
Casually browsing through my newsfeed this morning, as one does, when I happened across Tasting' Table's Jonathan Sawyer's Strangolopreti alla Trentina, titled, Jonathan Sawyer's Oozy Cheese Dumplings. Stunning cinematography, beautiful ingredients, straight forward, honest, and that jazz (meant to shazam that...). Believe it or not (please don't judge me) that was not what sold me. It was about a third of the way through the video when he whips a baguette out of nowhere, cracks it in half across his knee, and while grating it speaks the line "it's one of those dishes where yesterday's treasures become today's treasures". Yup. Sold.
