Category: Leftovers

  • Mongolian Beef using Leftover Steak

    Mongolian Beef using Leftover Steak

    I had some steak left over from the other night. Usually I would have made fried rice and added the chopped steak but I decided to cook up some Mongolian beef using a recipe from Simple Chinese Cooking as my starting point.  She has you use ground beef and marinade it before cooking, but my…

  • Taco Salad Recipe

    Taco Salad Recipe

    When you cook taco meat, either serve a taco salad a few days later or freeze the leftover meat and then thaw and heat some night when you need a pretty easy dinner. Mix up some: Heat up: Serve in small bowls for garnishing at the table: You don’t really need any salad dressing for…

  • Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe

    Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe

    A few days when I was glancing through some cookbooks I saw some chicken lettuce wraps that looked delicious,  so I put butter lettuce on the shopping list but neglected to mark the recipe. I sat down tonight and couldn’t find it, but I went online and found this as a starting point.  I made…

  • Leftover Turkey and Leftover Ham

    Leftover Turkey and Leftover Ham

    My sister is a wonder. She manages to host a fantastic Christmas dinner for our extended family AND send me home with some leftover ham and turkey. 🙂 In addition to making our traditional turkey sandwich spread, I made a turkey pot pie with the turkey. With the ham, I did a few breakfasts of…

  • Making Use of Leftover Pork

    This would be great with either leftover pork roast or pork tenderloin. I used the leftover pork tenderloin I’d barbecued a few days back but the book I got it from suggested leftover pork roast. I seem to be having an issue posting Amazon links so will forfeit the 50 cents I’d make off the…