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10 Easy Meals to Make with Your Leftover Ham from the Holidays

By Newshound, published Jan 05, 2007
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If you are like me, one of the easiest way you find to save money is making use of leftovers from meals. Well everyone is always trying to give away their leftover ham on Christmas and the other surrounding days. Of course there's the real basic options of either just eating it as slices as a snack or on a roll, there are so many other options. Here are some I hope you will find appealing:

1. Jambalaya- Cube some leftover ham and add chicken, shrimp, or sausage to it, some cajun style rice, peppers, and onions and you have a nice meal that can be used for quick lunches or a dinner.

2. Hawaiian Pizza- Get a pizza crush, put some sauce on it, pineapple chunks, and ham chunks or strips. Top it with mozzarella cheese (actually provolone works better for a hawaiian pizza), and cook it, nice easy meal or snack.

3. Ham and Egg sandwich- Scramble up some eggs, take your leftover ham and any other toppings you want, put them on a sub roll, english muffin, or bread and it's a real simple sandwich.

4. Ham Fried Rice- Hey you've heard of pork fried rice right? Well where do you think ham comes from? It's the same animal, you can make it the same way as you make the other staple fried rices such as chicken fried or pork fried rice.

5. Ham stir fry- Stir fry some ham with pineapple pieces, onions and peppers. Heat up some angel hair pasta in another pot and combine them. Makes a quick tasty dinner.

6. Ham Pita Pockets- Find a nice spicy mustard and coat the inside of the pita pocket, put in your ham slices, maybe a slice of tomato, your choice of slice, and put them in the over at 425 degrees for 5 minutes or so to melt the cheese and give it a nice toasted flavor.

7. Grilled Cheese with Ham- My favorite to do this with is swiss, but you can do it with any type of cheese. Slice the ham thin and put it between the layers of chees when you make the sandwich.

Takeaways
  • Leftover ham does not have to be boring!
  • Don't forget afterall, ham is pork, you can use it the same way you use pork in many recipies.
  • Give these recipies a try, don't be shy you might like it!
Did You Know?
I know many of us already have most of the ingredients in the house to make these meals, so not only are the convenient but they are also bargain meals since we have to save to pay off our shopping bills!
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Your title said 10 easy meals with ham leftovers. I only see 7 in this article. Where are the others?

Posted on 05/13/2008 at 2:05:55 PM

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