Repurposing Leftovers
We did a pot roast last week that turned out really, really tasty. However, it also made lots of leftovers - it was a couple pounds of roast, plus potatoes, and even with three people eating dinner, I put 1 2.5 cup container in the freezer, sent a bunch with Jeff for lunch the next day, and still had another 2.5 cup container full.
I’m rarely in the mood for straight pot roast the second time around. Other dishes I will happily eat meal after meal, but not that one; I suspect it’s all the meat. So last night I made a batch of biscuits, and we had biscuits and gravy, with beef instead of sausage. It really, totally hit the spot, and the simple addition of biscuits made the leftover roast a lot more palatable.
What’s your favorite thing you’ve done with leftovers recently?
ohiomom said,
August 28, 2007 @ 8:39 am
We don’t eat beef, but chicken is the leftover meat in our house. When I make my smashed chicken (thinly sliced and fried) I cut up the leftovers and add them to husband’s salads for work that week.
JJ said,
August 28, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
If you have any older cookbooks around, a lot of them have sections on leftovers. Can’t say that these are inventive but…
One that I have (McCall’s Cookbook) has:
Barbecued Beef on buns
Roast-Beef Hash
Stuffed peppers (Uses gravy too if you have any leftover)
From one written in 1941:
Run through chopper and use for meat pie, salad, meat loaf, croquettes, stuffed peppers, stuffed cabbage, chop suey, curry, browned hash. Cut into strips an saute with onions, tomatoes, green pepper or celery. Chop and combine with tomatoes and serve as meat sauce over spaghetti, macaroni or noodles. Dice, heat with gravy and serve over steamed rice. Place between slices of bread and pour hot gravy over top for hot sandwiches. Scramble with eggs.
I like to take leftover roast beef and serve it with a salad with raspberry vinaigrette (most of the time I cheat and use raspberry jam to make the vinaigrette) and walnuts with either goat or blue cheese crumbles.
ohiomom said,
August 28, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
JJ my mother ran all leftover holiday turkey or ham thru a chopper, mixed with mayo and pickle relish for school lunches :) I bought one years ago at a thrift store with all the parts and use it to grind up chicken for burgers.