With this one from the Herald Sun ‘Second time around’ column, there’s a combination of two great things – ham and barbeque. Or maybe it’s three if you add in fresh pineapple………..
CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS – Ham Kebabs
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CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS – Ham and Egg Breakfast with a Difference
After all the Christmas cooking it’s great to have some easy recipes to use up all the lovely leftovers. This is another from the Herald Sun cooking page ‘Second time around’ and jazzes up plain ham and eggs.
CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS – Mushroom and Ham Toasts
This week’s recipes come from a Herald Sun cooking page with the title ‘Second time around’. After all the Christmas cooking it’s great to have leftovers, but you do start to run out of ideas on how to serve them. These toasts can be made using ham, turkey or chicken and that makes them a winner.
CREAMY CHICKEN LOAF
As more and more Australians are deciding that a hot Christmas lunch is a bit silly in our climate, this 1970s cold Chicken Loaf could be worth trying. It has the added benefit of being made the day before and you only need turn it out and slice it on Christmas Day. A great way to cut down the stress of the big day.
CHRISTMAS ROAST DUCK with BREAD SAUCE
When I was young the Christmas treat was a roast chicken this could involve killing, plucking and cleaning the bird and was a major job. There was no such thing as frozen chicken so the effort in cooking a chicken made it very special. From chicken we seemed to have moved onto turkey for Christmas, but it’s not everyone’s favourite, especially the dried out leftovers. I found this old 1968 roast duck recipe in the collection and I thought it might be of interest. It has Bread Sauce to go with it, something I’ve never tried. So maybe it’s time for a change and return to the 1960s!!!
ROLLED MEAT LOAF
There’s so many different wrapped meatloaf recipes around. There’s recipes for them wrapped in bacon, prosciutto and puff pastry. What makes this a bit different is that it’s rolled up like a Swiss roll and the pastry is inside as well. This old recipe uses a packet of chicken supreme soup to sop up the moisture, don’t think that’s available any more, but cream of chicken soup should do the job instead.
CHICKPEA CASSEROLE WITH POTATO DUMPLINGS
You can tell this is an old recipe as it gives directions to soak the chickpeas overnight. Of course you can still do that, but it’s much easier now to just buy tinned chickpeas. It makes the recipe a lot quicker and easier to make as you can cut out the first couple of steps and go straight to frying the onions, garlic and pepper.
CRUSTLESS SAUSAGE QUICHE
Don’t think I’ve every seen a sausage quiche recipe before. Haven’t tried it, but it looks OK and as long as your sausages are gluten free it could be a bit of a change from plain fried sausage and egg for those who are gluten intolerant.
SPICY BAKED EGGPLANT
It used to be quite hard to find recipes that catered easily for vegetarian guests, luckily that’s no longer the case. Years ago I remember searching for an interesting dish to serve my son’s girlfriend for a Christmas lunch dominated by roast pork and turkey. The answer I finally came up with was a stuffed eggplant, don’t think it was quite as spicy as this recipe though. Fortunately she seemed to enjoy it.
FISH, MEAT AND VEGETABLE SKEWERS
I always run out of ideas about what to combine on skewers for the barbecue and usually end up making sate chicken ones. This recipe from McCormick uses their Spicy BBQ Seasoning to add some zing to prawns, steak, chicken and vegetables. Happy barbecuing!!!
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