Recipe: Meal Ideas Using Leftover Ham

IDEAS FOR USING LEFTOVER HAM

Mark Thorson:
Add to:
- Pasta salad
- Fried rice
- Lentil soup
- Macaroni and cheese

Sharen A. Rund:
- Cut 'steaks' to broil later
- Cut it into smaller sections to be used for:
- Boiled dinner (with potatoes, carrots, cabbage, onions)
- Slices for sandwiches
- Diced for omelets, quiches
- Diced for fried rice
- Diced/sliced for stir fry
- Dliced for fried ham & eggs

Nicole Bernadette Hansen:
- I put leftover ham in a quiche. A quiche is also a good way to use up random leftover vegetables.
- I also made some ham and apple crepes recently with some ham.

Jane Sandall:
- In pasta sauces (carbonara style or with mushrooms and cream or with peppers and tomatoes)
- Risottos
- Savory pancakes
- Chicken and ham pie
- Chicken and ham in a creamy sauce served over rice
- Diced ham with whatever on a jacket potato

Diane L. Mazzocca:
- We freeze nice cuts for breakfast. Nothing like a Sunday ham and egg breakfast with hot biscuits.

Susan York/1996:
- Ham Jambalaya is also delicious!

The Nexis One:
- I like to slice/chop it up and add good bbq sauce and wrap in tortillas or pita bread...yum!

Madelin Holtkamp:
- Scalloped potatoes with chunks of ham
- Ham fried rice
- Black bean soup
- Twice baked potatoes with ham and cheddar
- Ham and pepper and onion saute on pasta

Seesa 2:
- Ham salad
- Ham and scalloped potatoes
- Lentil soup
- Ham with macaroni and cheese casserole
- Grilled ham sandwiches
- Baked Beans and ham

Nancy Dooley:
- Ham croquettes
- Creamed ham on toast

Nancy A. Howells:
- ham salad - grind the ham in a food processor, add onions and sweet pickles, and mayonnaise. Use as a sandwich spread.
- I put ham, diced very small, into deviled eggs.

Brewer:
- Make a meal out of a salad by adding ham, boiled eggs and cheese. I do that with a salad of lettuce tomato and cucumber. You can add other meats too.

Shacra:
Ham and Beans and cornbread (great northern beans)

Ginny Tadrzynski:
- Try your favorite mac and cheese recipe, cube the ham and add some chopped broccoli, mix all together and cook following the mac and cheese directions.

Felice Friese:
Try your favorite mac and cheese recipe, cube the ham and add some chopped broccoli, mix all together and cook following the mac and cheese directions.

Andrew B. Peed:
- Strata (Think along the lines of a savory bread pudding)
- Slice it really thin and layer it with gouda or provolone cheese over baked chicken breasts

Steve Yates:
- Bake some spuds. When cooked, cut into halves, scoop out middle, add grated cheese and onion, add diced ham. Mix well and put back in skins. Bake for a while till ready.
- Dice ham, mix with cheese and onion, put into sliced pitas and grill

DJD:
- I used some leftover ham in a chowder. It was a nice compliment to the clams and potatoes.

Meg Fortino:
- Immediately after dinner, I slice the prettiest parts of the ham, stack them in 4s, put them in plastic bags and freeze. Then I cube the gnarliest pieces, separate into 2 cup servings, put them in plastic bags and freeze. Anything less than two cups, I put in 1/2 cup servings in plastic bags and freeze.

Wayne Adair:
- Ham hash
- Ham and split pea soup

Arri London:
- Layered with potato slices and cheese and baked
- Chunks go into lentil or bean soups
- Chunks go into pasta bakes
- You can mince it finely and use it to make a souffle
- Cut in strips and wrap with puff pastry and bake
- Small pieces in fried rice or pasta
- Small pieces as part of a stir fry

Dimitri:
- Grilled Ham and cheese sandwiches and a salad
- Ham and eggs with home fries for dinner
- Grilled ham steak with pineapple


- Ham in a chef salad
- Ham on a pizza
- Ham with noodles
- Ham with pasta and veggies
- Stir fries
- Ham and cream cheese log for dipping crackers

Felice Friese:
- Slivered ham and lightly saut ed sliced mushrooms in a b chamel sauce over slices of cornbread. Lots of sauce, needless to say.

David Lawson:
- Jambalya- Brown rice, ham, Andouille, shrimp, and as much Cajun pepper and seasoning as you care for.

Compiled from rec.food.cooking, 2004