Roast Beef or Rib Eye Roast Beef Hash – Left Over Dinner Ideas

I had so much rib eye roast left over from the other week’s holiday dinner party, I immediately saved some of it and threw it into the freezer. Making new food dishes from leftovers are easy with using just a little creativity – your family will never know. And with a little preparing and thinking ahead, you can freeze this ahead of time and make it on another day.

Now making hash is not anything new to me, nor making hash out of other ingredients such as roast beef, rib eye roast or from ham. Nor is this idea of making hash out of something other than corned beef new.

In fact, my recipe comes from my ‘family bible’ which lovingly is really just our old cookbook with recipes that are over 60 years old, easily, if not older. Everyone in my family has a copy of this book, which of course is no longer in print, and no I will not share its title with you…sorry, but this chef maven has to keep some of her food secrets hushed.

I happen to have one copy of my mothers and another of my grandmothers, both copies of this cookbook has hand written notes, little additional copies of recipes torn from one magazine or newspaper adhered to the pages are added here and there, making each book special to me. My own copy has in fact my own little notes, such as when I halve the recipe or make 1.5 times the recipe and need to know the exact amount of ingredients. But let’s get back to the hash shall we?

Of course, I love it when it when hash is made from corned beef, don’t get me wrong. But has made with these other cooked meats is just as dandy – I assure you! And with the cost of food as of late, with no chance that they will lower in prices anytime soon, you bet your burned oven mitts I am using up foods in a variety of ways in order to save my family money whle still providing good healthy slow food meals.

So let me show you how to make hash with using left over roast beef, rib eye roast or even ham. This is not your mashed up hash people – which is one way I would never serve any hash quite frankly in my home. It’s sort of scary looking if you do make hash all mashed up – since to me it looks like baby food, and since we are not babies here – let me show you how adults eat and make REAL hash.

Ingredients:

• 2-3 cups left over cooked roast beef/rib eye roast or ham – diced into 1-1/2″ cubes or larger sizes.
• 2 or 3 cups boiled potatoes cut into same size as your cooked meat – we have used red potatoes normally – but any type of potato will do as long as they have been boiled or at the very least par-boiled for 10 minutes. Leaving the skin on is optional.
• 1 large onion – finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 5 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 small can of evaporated milk – or 1/2 cup rich milk or cream
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ***Equipment needed
• Glass pie pan or shallow oven-proof pan, large bowl, slow oven on 300 degrees, one lazy afternoon.

Directions:

1. Grease pie pan or shallow baking dish with butter, including up the sides.
2. In large bowl, add all ingredients and gently stir till combined. You do not wish to mush up the potatoes.
3. Place wet mixture into greased shallow roasting pan or the glass pie dish and place onto middle rack in the slow oven.
4. Stir mixture every 30 or so minutes – gently since as the potatoes cook more, they can become very tender.
5. At last 20 minutes of cooking, you may wish to push up the heat to 375 – to make your hash extra crispy.
6. Serve with a large salad for dinner – or throw on eggs on top and bake for 10 minutes in oven for a great looking brunch dish!
7. Voila – real and awesome corned beef hash!

The total cooking time should be about 2 to 3 hours at 300 degrees. I like to up the heat for the last 20 minutes, to 375 to make it extra crispy. But the slow long cooking time really allows for the moisture to evaporate leaving just the wonderful seasonings, crispy parts that thrill your taste buds.

I find that when I make ham hash or roast beef hash, the amazing taste is so close to that of corned beef hash, it always astonishes me. Go figure….have fun with this one!

Sorry I don’t know where this photo came from, but I found it too funny not to share.

Our Daily Dinner – What Are You Having For Dinner Tonight?

Hi everyone, I belong to a recipe site, like so many of us these days. At this site, we can share recipes and chat – great place to share one’s cooking stories and tips – and many times a good laugh is had by all…

So, since this is a very active post, I thought and decided to start a daily dinner post here at my blog, feel free to share what you are having for dinner tonight…

For tonight’s dinner, I am making penne pasta with garden peas, homemade basil pesto, fresh sliced plum tomatoes with just a few sauteed garlic shrimp on top. For Salad I am having my usual fresh tarragon salad dressing over mixed greens and purple cabbage and carrots with a few rosemary bread croutons I made just the other day from a loaf of bread I made. And lastly for starters I am serving up some fresh guacamole with extra cilantro and lime juice with homemade tortilla chips.

So what’s on your plate for tonight? Let us know… add your comments…Chef Maven and others would love to hear…

Leftovers – Ideas for Leftover Cooked Chicken and Cooked Ham

With the price of food these days, I am finding myself being further encouraged in creating new ways and revisited ideas in stretching the food and food dollars I do buy for my family.

Recently while visiting a food site I belong to, we have been discussing in a new ’sub group’ I created allowing us to share recipes and ideas for leftover food, and thought I would share here with what I have learned there.

So some of you cannot stand them, leftovers that is, and if you should have leftovers from a restaurant or take out, you simply might end up throwing them out, but you might be surprised the variety of new dishes you can create from leftover food, saving you money. And isn’t that the point I am making? Exactly….

So if you are those who are interested in learning some ideas on what to do with leftover cooked chicken or cooked ham, you have come to the right place. Feel free to click on any link which are simply recipes I have shared already here at my Dinner and Jam blog…

So here I go and list them for you:

Ideas for Leftover Cooked Chicken:

• Chicken Tacos
• Chicken and Cheese Quesadillas
• Chicken Pot Pie
• Pulled BBQ Chicken
• Chicken Soup
• Chicken Tetrazinni

Ideas for Leftover Cooked Ham:

• Ham Hash
• Chowder
• Split Pea Soup
• Quiche Lorraine – or Quick Quiche Leah
  
• Spaghetti Carbonara
• Penne a la Vodka
• Egg Omelettes
• Kicked Up Macaroni and Cheese
• Chef Salad

Please share how you use your leftovers and create new dishes… Me and my readers would love to hear from you