Totally uninspired, plain-jane using leftovers. I had a good pound of
ground beef in sloppy joe sauce remaining in the fridge (your basic tomato
with onion & green peppers sauce, not BBQ sauce). So I cooked 8 oz.
macaroni and stirred it in with the beef and sauce. Added commercial chili
powder. Heated it all up, stirring a couple of times. Tasted it, added
more chili powder. When I spooned up a plate of it I sprinkled over some of
that grated 4-cheese "Mexican" blend (monterey jack, cheddar, queso and
asadaro).

Quite tasty for homemade Hamburger Helpless! At least I know what was in it
rather than using the boxed stuff. And now I have a totally different
leftover. I'm still going to have to freeze at least half of this after
having some for lunch today but that's okay by me. I like being able to
pull a serving of something out of the freezer and nuke it when I'm not in
the mood to do anything.

Jill
--
I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.

Leftover leftovers, my favorite !
I had a large london broil a while back. The second day it became beef
with broccoli. I had a chunk left that became hot roast beef
sandwiches. Top round and ground beef may not be expensive, but why
waste it ? Three meals out of one cheap piece of meat. I also found I
much prefer the top round to flank for the beef and broccoli.

Dean G.

wrote:
> Leftover leftovers, my favorite !
> I had a large london broil a while back. The second day it became beef
> with broccoli. I had a chunk left that became hot roast beef
> sandwiches. Top round and ground beef may not be expensive, but why
> waste it ? Three meals out of one cheap piece of meat. I also found I
> much prefer the top round to flank for the beef and broccoli.
>
> Dean G.

I have about 1/2 lb. of leftover, already marinated and grilled (okay,
broiled) rare flank steak in the freezer for doing a stir fry with broccoli,
bean sprouts and bamboo shoots with a sauce as yet to be determined. I love
being able to use leftovers for other meals.

For those who post here saying they don't know how to cook for one or two, I
say cook for more than one or two and learn to use leftovers to create
different meals so it doesn't become boring. Freeze individual meals that
you can reheat in the microwave, oven or on the stove. Create your own
Hamburger Helper as I did - it's not difficult. And you control the
ingredients. This chili-mac was tasty, albeit not exotic, and will feed me
3-4 more meals easily reheated in the microwave.

I made a nice chuck roast last month; turned the sliced leftover meat into
an open faced sandwich with gravy on thick garlic toast. Here's a photo and
man, was it delicious! Fork tender!

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...51542658RnyDby

Jill