Comments on: Making Meat Stretch Into Several Meals

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:51:49 +0000

I’ve done similar things like this as well, but it’s usually with a large roast beef:

1. Roast Beef with gravy, steamed broccoli and roast poatoes
2. Roast beef sandwiches with BBQ sauce, fruit and veggies with dip
3. Roast beef with gravy over baked potatoes with a green salad
4. Roast beef shredded mixed with salsa and served in tortillas with all the fixings
5. Roast beef chopped up with gravy if there is any leftover or BBQ sauce and served over brown rice with green beans on the side.
6. Roast beef chopped and mixed with pinto beans and a little BBQ and served with corn bread.
7. Roast beef shredded mixed with a little marinara over pasta
8. Roast beef chopped and mixed it with some leftover veggies (carrots, onions, tomatoes, celery) and beef broth or tomato juice for a beef stew
9. Roast beef mixed with pizza sauce for a meat lovers pizza!
10. Roast beef shredded and mixed with BBQ sauce and stuff into pillsbury crescent dough (or leftover pizza dough, or pie crust, or frozen bread dough, or biscuit dough) to make toaster pocket sandwiches.
11. Roast beef shredded and mixed with refried beans and salsa and stuffed into dough for empanadas.

So many ideas!

By: Clairee

Clairee — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:48:57 +0000

There are endless things you can do with a roast of pork or beef.
Make sure when you are first cooking the roast that you make lots of gravy, so there is leftover gravy as well as roast. you can supplement it with packaged or canned gravy, but you really need some of the original gravy to make it best.
1. Openfaced Hot roast sandwiches, with gravy, oven fries, and veggies of choice.
2. Cold roast sandwiches with a bit of horseradish for snap, (add lettuce and tomato if desired). Add chips, and you have a good lunch or snack.
3. Chop leftover roast into small (about 3/4″ or so) cubes. Saute chopped onions in small amount of olive oil, along with chopped peppers. Add cubes of meat, and saute briefly. Springle with a small amount of flour, stir well, add leftover gravy and possibly water to thin it if it’s too thick. You can also add frozen peas to this if desired. Serve over mashed potatles, with veggie of choice.
4. Chop it or grind in processor, mix with onionsand leftover gravy, spread in oven-safe pan, spread leftover mashed potatoes on top, and pop in 350 oven for about 20 minutes until heated. Voila! Shepherds pie!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:42:49 +0000

I know I am commenting on an old post, but I just read it for the first time. Like Tari, I have found that if I mildly season meat when I first cook it, I can make several meals out of it. With roasts, I usually cook them in the crock pot with some wine and garlic. The first night we have roast with mashed potatoes and gravy and veggie or salad. I couple of days later, I saute some bell peppers and onions, add the meat and some mexican seasoning and we have fajitas. To use up the last of the meat, we usually have BBQ on buns. I do the same thing with chicken, except that instead of the BBQ sandwiches, I make chicken noodle soup.

By: Tari

Tari — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:44:04 +0000

I find if I season my meat mildly, I can transform leftovers into several different dishes.

And I definitely agree about portioning what you set in front of your family. My husband almost feels obligated to finish off our meals if he sees there is just a little more rather than leaving it for lunch the next day.

By: unfinishedmom

unfinishedmom — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:44:20 +0000

Thanks for this tip today. I have a pork roast I’ve been trying to use up. You gave me some good ideas!

By: Kirstin

Kirstin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:01:12 +0000

Hi Lynn

Thanks for stopping by today. I haven’t been perusing bloggy land much because of the lack of internet at my house and when I do get access somewhere I’m trying to catch up on other things.

I’m going to look into your suggestions. I use BJU for English and the girls really like it.