Resourceful Recipes - Part 10, Leftover Veggies & Meat

Ideas for Using Up Leftover Vegetables and Meat:
1) Dish up portions onto microwave or oven safe dishes and make "TV Dinners." These can be frozen and heated up on nights when you are short on time.
2) Make stew.
3) Make "Leftover Vegetable Casserole." (recipe below)
4) Cut leftover roast into strips or cubes, stir into leftover gravy and serve over mashed potatoes, noodles or rice.
5) Cut meat into small pieces and stir-fry with raw vegetables.
6) Cut leftover roast into bite-sized pieces and freeze to use later in a beef stew.
7) Make "Meat and Potato Casserole" (recipe below).
8) Keep a container in the freezer for a "stock pot." Add leftover vegetables to it. Keep a separate container for leftover meat liquids or broths from cooking. When you have enough, use your stock pot as a base for a nutritious soup.
9) Pack leftover mashed potatoes in a round container and refrigerate overnight. Dump from container, slice into 1" slices, and fry. Turn once like a pancake. Serve as hashbrowns.
10) Use leftover mashed potatoes to make "Shepherd's Pie." (recipe follows)
11) Shred leftover roast or save cooked hamburgers & crumble to use as sloppy joes. Meat can be frozen to use at a later date.
12) Shred or puree leftover veggies and freeze in ice cube trays. These can be added to spaghetti sauce, soups, etc. for added nutrition and to sneak them past a picky eater.

Recipe for Leftover Vegetable Casserole:

Use chicken, ham or a can of tuna fish. Add 8-12 oz of cooked noodles or corkscrew or elbow macaroni. Leftover vegetables could be carrots, corn, peas, etc. Combine these ingredients with a can of cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup. Place in a casserole dish and top with bread crumbs, potato chip crumbs, or frozen onion rings. Heat at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until warmed through.

Recipe for Meat and Potato Casserole:
1 3/4 lbs. pork or beef roast
1 cup stock or bouillon
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 TB flour
4 potatoes
dash of salt
2 eggs
1 1/3 cups milk
1/4 cup grated cheese

Saute onion in butter. Add stock, chopped garlic, and meat. Thicken with flour. Cook and mash potatoes (or use leftovers). Add salt, eggs and milk. Place meat in casserole dish. Cover with potatoes. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup of grated cheese. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.

Recipe for Shepherd's Pie:
1 1/2 lbs. hamburger
1 TB dry onion or 1 chopped onion
1 can string beans (or leftover green beans)
1 can cream of chicken or mushroom soup OR 1 can tomato sauce + 1 TB chili powder
Mashed potatoes (leftovers)
grated cheese

Brown hamburger & onion; drain. Put in casserole and add layer of beans. If using soup, only drain half the liquid off of the beans, or add 1/2 cup water. Spread soup or tomato sauce over meat and beans, then spread potatoes over the top. Bake uncovered for 25-30 min. Add cheese the last 5 min. of cooking.