L’usage des Restes

Even the Niçois are less than dogmatic about this one. There are as many petits farcis as there are cooks. Stuffing vegetables should be about intelligent usage des restes (that means ‘using up leftovers’ to those in the back row) rather than about prescribed recipes. It is true that the Niçois – and that pertains more to those in the hills (the arrière-pays) than those in the city of Nice itself – tend to use meat. When they are being dogmatic, they will insist upon not raw minced meat but minced leftover cooked meat. When they are being very dogmatic, then the meat must be the chopped leftover meat from a daube, with a bit of the juice to moisten.