Your favorite ideas for leftover pot roast?

[cbayer]

I made a delicious pot roast yesterday and have leftover meat, as well as some carrots, potatoes and yummy sauce.

What would you do with it? I have a LOT, so am wanting a few ideas that I can use over the next few days.

:hi:

[hippywife]

1. I just love roast

that's been reheated and served on good wheat bread spread with butter and a little sprinkle of salt on the meat. :9

I ate every kind of meat my mother prepared just like that and it drove my dad nuts. I thought his head was going to explode the day I ate a hamburger without the bun after doing the sandwich thing with all the other kinds of meat.
:rofl:

[cbayer]

2. I like that, too, though I would use mayo. But you just gave me another great idea!

I can do a classic New Orleans hot roast beef poboy if I can find the right bread. I can make a milk gravy out of some of my left over juice for it.

:drooling:

[The empressof all]

3. I agree with the hot sandwich idea

I'd take the left over veggies and make them into a mash and serve them with the gravy too.

Another option is to add beef or veggie broth and make a soup or stew.

You can also do a rough cut and make a yummie pot pie or if you are so inclined a pasty.

[cbayer]

4. I am loving the pot pie idea! And DH, who usually refuses to talk about food at all,

just actually responded to me, saying "That sounds great!".

So that is a big go and on the menu for tonight.

Thanks so much!

:hi:

[grasswire]

5. turnovers

Any pie dough will do. In fact, in a pinch that Betty Crocker boxed pie crust mix using sour cream to mix it up with makes a wonderful turnover pastry -- it's very tasty made with sour cream, and flaky.

Roll out your individual circle (one serving) to about seven inches, put chopped meat, veggies and some cold gravy on one half, fold over and crimp edge with a fork. Poke a few fork holes in the top, brush with milk, put on a baking pan and bake until light brown. Serve with some more gravy on the side if you have it, and some kind of salad.

Wow, that's a delicious meal.

[Tesha]

21. we always called them pasties

sooo good!

[Paper Roses]

6. Beef pot pie. Cube the left overs. Parboil veggies. assemble in

casserole dish.
Add beef gravy, using best rated Knorr gravy mix( slightly diluted) Thicken if necessary.
Cover with pie crust.
season to taste

Bake
Enjoy

Since you have the veggies and some sauce, you are all set. Try to figure how to stretch sauce to do the job. Bouillon?

[eridani]

16. I do that in small individual pie tins with puff pastry crust

These freeze well, and we don't get tired of them because of all the other stuff in the freezer keeping them company.

[eridani]

17. I do that in small individual pie tins with puff pastry crust

These freeze well, and we don't get tired of them because of all the other stuff in the freezer keeping them company.

[Warpy]

7. Equal meat to veggie ratios can go in mock pot pies

put into oven safe bowls with either biscuit or pie crust on top. More meat than veggies means open faced sandwiches or even closed sandwiches if you eat it cold. If the gravy isn't thick enough for the pot pie, just heat and thicken with a little cornstarch.

You could also make roast beef hash out of it, but it seems like rather a waste.

Another thing to do is freeze it for one of those days you don't want to cook and people don't remember they're sick of pot roast.

[MagickMuffin]

8. I used to make chopped BBQ sandwiches

I would chop up the roast and add BBQ sauce and served on hamburger buns. Of course now that I don't eat beef or chicken I don't remember the name of the BBQ sauce.

I also would have a second meal of roast and potatoes, carrots, until the veggies were gone then I made the BBQ.


Good luck, lots of good ideas here.

:hi:

[hippywife]

9. Everybody's ideas are really good.

I just had another. Something I don't like because I don't care for green peppers is to do a sorta of Philly Beefsteak sandwich if you like that kind of thing.

[cbayer]

10. Great ideas everyone!

I am going to make a pot pie tonight. Got some 'shrooms and peas that I will put in. I don't have any small pie tins or anything like them, so I am going to make a full size "pie" with top and bottom crusts.

Since this will feed us twice, I am going to freeze the rest of the meat and pull it out for making hot roast beef sandwiches in the future when I can get the right bread.

I knew I could count on you guys!

:hi:

[housewolf]

11. Roast beef hash

My mom always made roast beef hash with left over roast beef. Man, did I love her hash! Potatos, onion, the roast beef and left-over gravy. It was probably my favorite meal as a kid. I could never make it like she could. Man, do I miss her roast beef hash!

[cbayer]

12. What do you do? I don't know how to cook this.

:hi:

[juajen]

14. Easy directions for all left over meat, including ham.

Saute small-cubed potatoes and choppped onions. When onions are clear, and potatoes reasonably soft (you might want to start off with the potatoes and add onions after potatoes are beginning to soften, add leftover chopped beef, then add some flour to soak up the butter (about 3 tablespoons); then add about two cups of liquid (gravy, or beef broth, and some water to make up the two cups. You can even use chicken stock if you need it, or beef base or chicken base.

Here in So. Louisiana they serve everything over rice, including hash, which they call stew. I have to admit that I have grown accustomed to this practice. I eat more rice than I ever did before moving here.

[housewolf]

15. Oh my gosh, it's been years and years and years!

I think Jajen has it about right, but to be honest, I don't really remember, it's been so long! I think she browned some diced onion in butter, then added diced potato and the left-over gravy (augmented with some broth or water, if needed) and cooked the potato. When they were about about done she added the diced beef cubes. My mom cooked everything to death, and this is no exception... it was very well cooked comfort food! I think all you really need to do is heat the beef through, but i'm sure she cooked it for an hour or so. She might have added salt with the potatoes if she had to cook additional raw potatoes.

There are other recipes for making a crispy hash, either with corned beef or roast beef, and some where it's served as a breakfast dish topped with a poached egg. Do some exploring, you're sure to come up with something delicious!

[pengillian101]

13. Others have already mentioned a pot pie...

which is a great idea. You mentioned your husband liked his mashed potatoes - so maybe try a shepherds pie with the mashed potatoes as the topping instead of pie crust. Just a thought.

[cbayer]

18. Boo! I made a great big pot pie and it slid off the rack, landing upside down on

the floor, when I went to take it out of the oven. What a freaking mess!

I was able to salvage some from the huge pile, because so much actually did not touch the floor. It wasn't done cooking.

I have frozen the rest of the roast and will fix something else once I forget about this entire episode.

:cry:

[Warpy]

19. Oh, yeah, I remember the adventures

of trying to put stuff on a shelf when the boat was pitching because some damn fool in a hurry hadn't respected the "no wake" signs.

I never had anything semiliquid hit the floor, but sometimes it was a real challenge to keep the pot on the alcohol stove and the alcohol stove from sliding into a bunk.

[cbayer]

20. Mine is on a gimbel, but since we are moored, I had it locked.

Just as I was taking it out, we pitched a bit and the thing just slid right out.

The words that came spewing out of my mouth can not be repeated here. What a mess!

:rofl:

[kestrel91316]

22. Beef pot pie. Or maybe something like shepherd's pie?