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Prime rib, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes. ham, cookies, broccoli cheese souffle, salad, some hawaiian sweet rolls, several pies. . .
The souffle went home with our daughter who is a pesquatarian, the only thing she could really take.
The prime rib and sweet potatoes were lunch yesterday and will likely be dinner tonight. Prime rib may last for a few more lunches or dinners, there is a lto fo it. the ham will get taken to work(s) for lunches). Salad will be given to the bird, nibbled at a little and eventually get wilty and tossed out in the yard. Mashed potatoes - my wife will eat those for dinner probably tonight. Cookies we will give away or throw away. rolls will be snacks for a few days. Pies - not sure what we will do with them, the whole ones we will give away. The pieces will likely sit in the fridge until we deicde they are old and toss them out. Someone might eat one or two. .
So many leftovers. From Christmas Eve we have leftover Italian beef. I'll put that into a ziploc today and freeze it for an easy meal later.
Still have leftover ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, lots of cheese and rolls. After days of cooking and cleaning I zombied out in front of the TV yesterday. We all just heated food up as we were hungry. Son made a grilled ham and cheese sandwich on one of the dinner rolls. Husband made an omelet. I just microwaved some green beans and potatoes. Husband will probably make potato pancakes out of the rest of the mashed potatoes today. I may toss the green beans in the freezer also. I did it last year and the addition of them to veggie soup was wonderful. I cooked them in olive oil and butter with garlic and sliced onions so it really added something to the soup.
Ham bone is in the freezer for navy bean soup in the near future.
I'll send some cookies home with son if he has room in his luggage. Daughter and SIL took some home and will take to work. I forgot about the pies I guess I'll freeze some of them.
I have some left over turkey from Christmas day and I simmered the carcass for soup stock. I'll be making turkey soup and a turkey pot pie. We had left over prime rib and I just heated it up slowly in one of my iron skillets on a low burner. Just keep turning it until it's warm. I still have three prime rib bones to heat up the same way.
There are so many home made cookies left over which is both good and bad.
Ham and cheesy hash brown potatoes. We’ll have a rerun tonight, then will break down the ham, and freeze individual potato servings for later. Future ham use will be bean or pea soup, ham tetrazzini (my favorite food), a few dinners and a few omelettes.
My neighbor called yesterday trying to pawn off the last of the peppermint crème pie from her big celebration.
I pulled a fast one on her. Invited her over for coffee. Served her the last of the Christmas cookies on green Depression glass plate with Christmas napkins.
Then I sent her home with a huge slice of our French silk pie. And the whipped cream.
Ha-ha. You don't get by with dumping your leftovers on this girl.
Sounds like a lot of us strive for leftovers. The other night I was thinking about a true story I read somewhere once. The theme was different attitudes about whether there should be leftovers when you have had company.
It seems an American woman had married into a Middle-Eastern family and was going to entertain them at her home for the first time. She was nervous and was consulting about the meal with her MIL.
When they all went home every dish was emptied and she felt the party had been a great success. She mentioned to MIL that they must have been satisfied since they had eaten it all.
MIL gave a different perspective. In their culture, she explained, if food was left over it meant that everyone had gotten their fill. If no food was left perhaps some went away still wanting more.
Am I jealous of all your leftovers! Prime Rib? I didn't have a clue so many have that for Christmas dinner. I guess my family was really old-school. Turkey, turkey, turkey. Don't think I've ever even HAD a homemade prime rib. Restaurant ones are usually disappointing. Either raw or tough.
Sitting down to our expat turkey dinner, I got suddenly and violently nauseous. So I had not one bite. Luckily, I don't anyone noticed my hasty departure and eventual return. Still, kind of a bummer.
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I guess I'll freeze some of them.
