Leftover Gammon

building_with_lego

We use it with leeks, potatoes and cream, baked in a sort of Dauphinoise effort. Very filling indeed, and delicious!

Edit: Actually, this dish is the main reason we put up with the original meal!

gayleygoo

building_with_lego wrote: »

We use it with leeks, potatoes and cream, baked in a sort of Dauphinoise effort. Very filling indeed, and delicious!

Edit: Actually, this dish is the main reason we put up with the original meal!

Lol that's why we eat "bacon, cabbage and potatoes" for the first night, it's much better all fried together the second night! Which is exactly what I did, I considered pasta and rice dishes but DH wouldn't have liked them as much as he did the bubble and squeak.

Tomorrow I plan to make boston baked beans, with a reduced price smoked bacon joint from Lidl. It was down to £2 for 700g and I've been meaning to make baked beans again for ages!

DigForVictory

Add chunks to macaroni cheese?

meritaten

Probably too late for tonight but one way I use up a bacon joint (esp smoked bacon) is to make a cheese sauce, about a pint. then fry some sliced leeks until tender but not coloured. mix this in with the cheese sauce and the bacon cut into chunks and use with pasta as a Pasta Bake - it takes around 45 mins in a medium oven and I add either just grated cheese or cheese and breadcrumbs halfway through cooking. (you can do this with leftover chicken or turkey btw).

Steve059

Make pea & ham soup with any odd leftover bits.

gayleygoo

Thanks all, I do love cheesy bacon pasta but OH just prefers spuds. I might make the pasta dish tomorrow night, since there was a bag of YS pasta flour in tesco for 50p I thought I would give pasta making a go

Pea and ham soup sounds lovely, I've been meaning to look for a good recipe. I have a big bag of marrowfat peas, and some frozen peas, which would be better?

meg72

gayleygoo wrote: »

Thanks all, I do love cheesy bacon pasta but OH just prefers spuds. I might make the pasta dish tomorrow night, since there was a bag of YS pasta flour in tesco for 50p I thought I would give pasta making a go

Pea and ham soup sounds lovely, I've been meaning to look for a good recipe. I have a big bag of marrowfat peas, and some frozen peas, which would be better?

I prefer dried marrowfat peas for my soup, although at the moment I am using up tins of mushy peas, stocked up when the were 4p.