Christmas Leftovers Recipes – Ham Steak & Pineapple
December 27th 2008 05:53
Eating ham for breakfast, lunch and dinner needn’t be monotonous. Quiche Lorraine or ham and cheese omelette make a hearty breakfast, and a toasted ham, cheese and tomato sandwich is ideal for lunch. Diced ham cubes can be added to innumerable pasta dishes, or into salads, including potato salad. How about a Hawaiian pizza?
As a kid I didn’t enjoy a slice of processed ham with a ring of canned pineapple slapped on it but a leg ham steak with fresh pineapple is my new favourite. Simply cut thick slabs of ham and thick rings of fresh pineapple. Cut the rind from the pineapple and sear them in a pan until they are browned on both sides. Serve ham steak and pineapple with chips, veggies and gravy.
Do not be tempted to refreeze seafood. Leftover prawns can be peeled and added to salads, pastas, and pizzas. If they are less than fresh try making curried prawns, but eat it right away.
Peeled prawns and other seafood, including cooked cold fish meat, can be made into seafood mornay and served on rice or in a pie or crepe. Leftover seafood can also be made into a delicious seafood lasagna. (Follow this link to the recipe)
Cold turkey can be served with cranberry jelly in sandwiches, or chopped into pasta.
Leftover bbq steak can be made into steak pie filling, minced for cottage pie, or cubed and stewed with potatoes for Irish stew. Add a can of Guinness and you have Guinness stew. Sausages can be curried or made into sausage sandwiches or hotdogs for the kids.
Leftover cakes or plum pudding can be layered in a parfait glass with custard and jelly to make individual Christmas trifles. Leftover fruit can be made into fruit salad, and leftover fruit salad can be made into smoothies or blended and frozen in moulds to make healthy frozen fruit pops.
Fun kids cocktails can be made using non-alcoholic ingredients. Watermelon and other fruit can be scooped out and blended with midori, vodka or tequila for a round of cocktails for the grown ups. That gives me an idea…Is it five o’clock yet?
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Comment by Lara M
Love Speaks
Food Slate
Merry Christmas, GlenB
Comment by Linh
Celluloid Fun
Very professional and practical culinary advice.
Cheers!