When I make a pot roast and have left over beef potatoes ad carrots..I cut
them all up and chop some onions and sauté the onions until translucent then
add the cut up beef and veggies...makes a nice hash . I usually serve it
with leftover gravy. Hubby likes to add ketchup to it instead of gravy.
jacquie
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>>>>>>>>>I used to eat allot of the Knorr packaged soup. Oxtail was my
>>>>>>>>>favorite. I could live on soup..but hubby informed me the other day
>>>>>>>>>he couldn't...LOL.
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>>>>>>>> I could live on soup too but the other day, Angela crossed her arms
>>>>>>>> and declared, "I don't want anything soupish!" This after days of
>>>>>>>> my making soup for dinner and nothing but soup.
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>>>>>>> You could always freeze the soup and serve it another day......
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>>>>>> Nope. Nobody here will eat stuff from the freezer.
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>>>>> Julie, you don't tell them. My husband is the same way. So I take
>>>>> it out of the freezer, pop it out of the plastic container, put it in
>>>>> a pot to heat very slowly, and to thaw. By the time it is
>>>>> lunchtime, it smells really good and he will then eat it. But if I
>>>>> ask him if he wants this or that soup from the freezer, he says no.
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>>>> I won't eat it from the freezer either. Doesn't taste very good to me.
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>>> If it is losing flavor in the freezer, then there is something you are
>>> not doing right. Some things actually improve in the freezer, as the
>>> flavors meld together better.
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>> It's not the flavor. I don't like the texture of most stuff after it has
>> been frozen. I don't really even like frozen vegetables. My parents eat
>> them now, but growing up we only had canned or fresh.
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>> There is also something about leftovers I just don't like. I don't know
>> what it is. It's not one particular thing. I have sometimes cooked a
>> lot of stuff and used the leftovers for days.
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>> When I ate pancakes, I used to make tons and freeze them. Also did the
>> same with muffins. I just can't eat stuff out of the freezer any more.
>> If I do try to eat it, I am just put off by it and wind up throwing it
>> out most of the time.
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>> I did cook up a ton of ground beef and froze it when I went to Costco
>> before the storm hit. The only ground beef they had came in a huge
>> package. I normally buy their 3 packs of 1 pound packages and we can
>> usually use them up before they go bad. Occasionally I have to put one
>> in the freezer where it usually stays until it has become frost bitten
>> and I throw it out about a year later. I am sometimes forced to use the
>> frozen meat but it's very difficult to remove from the package. I never
>> can remember to take it from the freezer so it thaws and I dislike what
>> the microwave does to meat when you try to thaw it that way.
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>> Maybe I am just spoiled or something. My step grandpa refused to eat any
>> leftovers ever. My dad generally wouldn't eat them. Not that we ever
>> had leftovers in our house except for occasional turkey and meatloaf. We
>> generally only had meatloaf prior to a road trip and we'd have the
>> leftovers cold the following day. All these years I assumed my mom made
>> one meatloaf and we had the leftovers from that. But when I make a
>> meatloaf at home, there are never any leftovers. I just recently learned
>> that she made two of them and just stuck the 2nd one straight into the
>> fridge for the next day.
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>> One story that does stand out in my mind was the "spaghetti red". This
>> is what my family calls macaroni, beef and tomatoes. My grandma came to
>> take care of us while my mom was in the hospital. She had 8 kids so was
>> used to cooking huge amounts. She made a pot of this and we had it for
>> breakfast, lunch and dinner the entire time my mom was gone. She (unlike
>> the other grandma) didn't believe in wasting food. I got sooo sick of
>> eating that I couldn't touch the stuff again for years.
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> I have a lot of sneaky ways to make things differently the next day.
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> For instance I will roast a chicken in the oven one day. Then after
> dinner I will take the meat off all the bones and put it away. Save the
> gravy too.
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> Next day, peel a bunch of really nice fresh root vegetables and cook them
> in the gravy with a little water added. Usually carrots, celery, potato,
> small whole onions, and a parsnip if I have one on hand, and toss in a
> handful of frozen peas for color. Then when the vegetables are all
> cooked, I will add the chicken meat cut into nice bite sized chunks.
> Thicken the gravy and you have a nice chicken stew that doesn't even
> vaguely resemble the roaster you had the night before.
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> Evelyn
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