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Left overs aka reruns today, meatloaf. Just found out you can buy a family pack of hamburger and make it all up into meatloafs and then freeze it. Then just pop it into the over frozen or not. Tasted great. I use oatmeal instead of bread or cracker crumbs healthier I think. Left over ham going into a fratatta with is just onions and celery and what ever you need to use up out of fridge fried a little then pour a mixture of eggs and milk/cream over it and pop in oven at 350 until almost done then top with cheese and back in until cheese GBD I have used left over baked potatoes, cold spaghetti noodles both good. Cheap and easy and uses the little bits in your fridge that aren't enough for anything else.
Yep - I love making large batches of food and repurposing leftovers! Funny thing is I often find myself looking forward more to the leftover/re-dux meal than the original meal it started as. Case in point, when I make roast (which I like well enough on it's own) I am more excited to think of the stroganoff I'll make with it the next evening

And, definitely yes to the oatmeal in meatloaf, the texture is much better, imo that way - it's just how my family has always prepared it, so how I learned to do it. Must be doing something right, for the bad rep meatloaf seems to always get mine is one that the kids' friends always want to be around for when that's what is for dinner

Alas, with the arrival of summer and the first "heat wave" of the year (those are the weather girl's words, not mine, lol) I find myself loathe to turn on the oven much - time to start grilling everything. I did give in and run it a bit yesterday to bake a cake, but I got up extra early and had that done and out of the way before 8 so I could turn off the oven and let the cool morning air re-cool the house before the sun got too far into it's heating duties for the day. We do a LOT of salads in the summer.
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