A mulligan, in a game, happens when a player gets a second chance at a move or action. In essence it's a "do-over". On Mulligan Day you get a second chance. At what? It's not specific, so I suppose you get to "do-over" whatever you'd like.
In cooking, mulligan stew is basically a stew made of whatever you have on hand or whatever is left-over. So I suppose it's foods way of getting a second chance. When my children were little they loved the story about stone soup. If you're not familiar with it, basically a wanderer comes into town and has no food. So he boils up some water and adds a stone. Everyone in the town wants to share his soup and so the each bring a little something to add... a potato here, a carrot there...until it becomes a real meal. Now we all know how kids feel about left overs, so I used the story to my advantage. One of the other issues was that my younger children seemed to love to rip the labels off of canned foods. I usually knew what was in them, but it actually helped that they didn't. Making sure to have some soup base and vegetables in the mix, I let them pick some unlabeled cans, added some left-overs, water or broth as necessary, and voila ~ they made stone soup. I'm sure they would have turned their noses up at it if I made it, but because it was their creation they thought it was the best meal ever.
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