Cooking Tip: Cook Once, Create Many Meals

Cooking Tip: Cook Once, Create Many Meals 

There is a strategy to being an organized cook and household manager - cooking once while planning out those leftovers.

If you're working and don't have time to prepare a meal that takes hours to prepare or cook, such as a Ham, Turkey, Roasted Chicken, or Pot Roast, then save those type of meals for the weekend. With the leftovers from any of these dishes, you can divide up the remaining to be used in salads, soups, lunches, or for when you've got a really busy week. All these items freeze well, so plan ahead.

Another great idea before cooking on the weekends is to plan for those lunches or quick meals ahead of time. For example, are you making a Roasted Chicken; why not cook two at the same time. Eat the first one, then use the carcass for soup. Cut up the second one, using the carcass in the same pot for soup, or chicken flavored base for another dish. Use the meat for not only soup, but for pot pie filling, sandwiches, or another single meal for that busy week.

Leftover Ham can be used for sandwiches, breakfast casserole the following weekend, or breakfast barrios on the fly.  How about Navy Bean soup, or mix it up in an Antipasto Pasta Salad. Same goes with the leftovers of Turkey. Although I'll have a series of recipes later on in the year for those leftovers.  Use your imagination based on what your family likes, and enjoy.

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