For New Years, I boiled the ham bone from Christmas, pulled the meat off and reserved. I boiled the cooking liquid down to 2 cups, and cooked the black-eyes (that we grew in our garden this year). Added garlic, onions, and bacon, and simmered for a couple of hours. (We also had Buffalo steaks, but believe me there were not any left over of THOSE!)
We also had a half-head of cabbage, shredded and cooked with bacon.
Saturday, I had a bone-in whole deer ham, seasoned and wrapped in foil, cooked in the grill. (to a temp of 150 F) I also splurged a bit, and bought teensey purple potatoes, red potatoes, and white potatoes, grape tomatoes, a small Japanese eggplant, a small yellow squash, and a zuchini, all cut to about the same size, and 8 oz of whole mushrooms; poured a bit of olive oil over, added salt and Italian seasoning, and roasted over in a pan in the grill during the last 45 minutes of the deer roast. Sliced the meat really thin, served with rolls and gravy. (We ended up eating about a pound and a half)
Last night, I cut about a pound and a half of the leftover roast up into pcs, and made a chowder with the meat. I made a roux with 4 T margerine and same of flour. To the roux, I added the chopped meat, leftover veggies, the leftover blackeyes, chopped other half of the cabbage, and added milk and broth to cover. I added some pasta.
Let me tell you there wasn't much left of this, just barely enough for my lunch today.
So I have 2 bones with about 1/2 lb meat left. I had Randall start boiling this around noon, and by the time I got home, the meat is falling off the bones. I mixed 1/2 bottle of BBQ sauce with the same amount of Ketchup, shredded the meat, and we are having BBQ sandwiches for supper.
Also oven baked sweet potatoes and baking potatoes (cut potatoes into wedges, coat lightly with olive oil, garlic powder, and parsley, and bake till crispy)
Who says leftovers are boring?
That sure does sound good!!