What the best leftovers you ever had?

[Katydid1984]

Cooking ain’t as hard as waiting for it to be done!

For sure!! Especially when it smells really good.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Next time you smoke pork butts pull the fat side completely. The meat gets more smoke & smoking that fat is great in beans.

I did that with a ham I baked for Easter, A neighbor wanted the fat, no meat. I did not cook the fat. She cooks with it and eats it. What she cooks taste very good.

 

[baboon]

Ham fat green beans come to my mind!

 

[baboon]

For sure!! Especially when it smells really good.

I have a bad habit when someone says it smells good saying I farted!

 

[baboon]

Brisket point & potato tacos on flour tortillas

 

[Vaquero]

Usually brisket.

 

[Axxe55]

Brisket point & potato tacos on flour tortillas

Usually brisket.

Most briskets are large enough, you know that you are going to have leftovers. And leftover brisket, can be used in so many ways.

We make tacos with leftover brisket, chopped brisket sandwiches, loaded baked potatoes, and quite a few other things.

 

[benenglish]

How old does something have to be to be "leftovers"? If 12 hours or so is enough, then my answer is easy. I wrote about it on TGT a while back:

... Uvalde in 1978. My father and I had been shooting all day in a match at the Uvalde Gun Club (which, I think, no longer exists.) It was summer, late in the day, we were parched and hadn't eaten since breakfast. I went to our 1970 Cadillac and rummaged around in the ice chest. I found two waters. Then I saw it, a bit of plastic poking up through the seats. I fished out a plastic bag containing one of the egg-on-toast with a light coat of mayo sandwiches that mom had sent with us for breakfast when we had left home before sunrise that morning. Apparently I had sat on it and it had gone down between the cushions of the front seat.

I called my dad over. We split the sandwich and leaned against the car, side by side, watching the sun go down as we silently chewed our soggy, flattened sandwich halves and sipped our water. The pistols on the range had long since gone silent and there was a stillness to the place, to our eating, and in our hearts. It was just me and my dad, saying nothing, communicating volumes, and finding peace, together. Somehow even my deeply immature, 18-year-old heart knew that the moment was perfect.

That was the best meal of my short life. A bit over a year later my dad was dead. I've never had another meal that came close to that ruined sandwich with that marvelous old man. I won't have another like it until I share another sandwich with him on the other side.

 

[Axxe55]

How old does something have to be to be "leftovers"? If 12 hours or so is enough, then my answer is easy. I wrote about it on TGT a while back:

Ben, that is great story about a memory with your father. I remember when you first posted that story, and it's still a great story the second time around.

 

[Axxe55]

@benenglish, I meant to ask you the last time when you posted this.

That was the best meal of my short life. A bit over a year later my dad was dead. I've never had another meal that came close to that ruined sandwich with that marvelous old man. I won't have another like it until I share another sandwich with him on the other side.

And if it's too personal or painful a memory I apologize in advance, but did you father die suddenly, or was he terminally ill? I ask because I'm 58, and my father is 78, and I saw from the time frame, you are just a bit older than me, but I'm trying to come to terms with my own father getting older and not being around forever. Every year, the inevitable of his, and my mortality are becoming a reality. I knew my mother was sick for some time with cancer when she passed away some years ago, but my brother and I were raised by our father from an early age, with him being a single father for many of those years.

 

[Katydid1984]

Most briskets are large enough, you know that you are going to have leftovers. And leftover brisket, can be used in so many ways.

We make tacos with leftover brisket, chopped brisket sandwiches, loaded baked potatoes, and quite a few other things.

We had brisket at my wedding, I'm pretty sure we had left over brisket for two months, I made all kinds of brisket dishes for a while. Thankfully neither one of us minded.

 

[Axxe55]

We had brisket at my wedding, I'm pretty sure we had left over brisket for two months, I made all kinds of brisket dishes for a while. Thankfully neither one of us minded.

One re-use of brisket, if I have some in the freezer, is when I'm making my homemade chili. I thaw it out, and chop it up like you would for a chopped beef sandwich. And into the pot it goes! It adds a little bit of a smoky flavor to the chili.

 

[benenglish]

did you father die suddenly, or was he terminally ill?

I'll send you a PM. No need to depress everybody with the story.

 

[baboon]

One re-use of brisket, if I have some in the freezer, is when I'm making my homemade chili. I thaw it out, and chop it up like you would for a chopped beef sandwich. And into the pot it goes! It adds a little bit of a smoky flavor to the chili.

Makes for a better texture too! One thing you will never find in my chili is coarse ground chili meat. I hate making it. People generally bitched about it. Supervisors felt they needed to tell you when to make it, and were mostly wrong.

 

[mm54943]

My leftover brisket always tastes great, I eat it like it is, make chopped brisket sandwiches with it, or make brisket tacos.

 

[baboon]

Best ever tamales I ever had were made with smoked brisket!

 

[mm54943]

Best ever tamales I ever had were made with smoked brisket!

I've heard of people doing this. I would definitely love to try them.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

This white girl I met in Germany...
Mmmmmmm tasty

 

[baboon]

This white girl I met in Germany...
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That’s about as wrong as a tampon commercial during breakfast!

 

[pronstar]

Pizza.

Lots of people like cold pizza leftovers, but not me.

Instead, I nuke it for a bit to get the cheese melted, then re-heat the slices on a non-stick pan.

What you get is piping hot pizza with a crispy crust…oftentimes it’s better than the pizza was originally (due to the crust).


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