Dressing Up Leftovers

[Betty]

I've been doing this more lately as well.

When whole chickens are on sale at the store for about $3 or $4, I buy two and roast them both in a pan with potatoes, carrots, onions, and whole garlic. (Mmmmm... roasted garlic). They all roast in the pan drippings and are delish.

I take the meat off the extra chicken and us it for all sorts of stuff - lunch sandwiches, chicken and tortillini salad (like a macaroni salad but fancier), filling for tacos or burritos, just chopped over a regular salad.

The whole roasted chicken is just so easy to make and always ends up so juicy.

This week I had leftover roasted pork tenderloin. I used the leftovers to make beef stroganoff substituting the pork for the beef. That was very tasty.

I love taking pretty much any left over meat and mixing it up with some salsa, rice, pinto beans, a little chili powder and/or cumin and some cheese sprinkled on top. Like a mexican cassserole I guess?

Love this thread though.