Quick Dinners by Ingredients Continued

This post is about meat....fresh, frozen, leftover or purchased from the deli counter on your way home, how to make it appetizing, or ideas to make it different that just plain meat, potatoes, veg/salad dinner.

*Frozen preformed hamburgers, Homemade or purchased
-mashed while cooking, add leftover veggies, mix in quart of beef stock for soup;
-can be made into any kind of burger, Mexican flavour-try using pico de gallo, salsa, guacamole,
hot peppers, Swiss cheese, mushrooms, fried onions, blue cheese,
barbeque sauce, hot salsa mixed with mayonaise, garlic and green onions mixed with mayonaise;
-cooked, crumbled, mixed into macaroni and cheese dinner, mixed with chili powder and fresh cherry tomatoes;
-hot hamburger sandwiches, (frozen burger heated with can/package gravy, over bread)with veggies;
-broken up into your favourite pasta sauce for a quick meaty pasta;
-Crumbled up to make sloppy joes, spice mix from a package/can;
-Add it to a can of thick soup, over left over mashed potatoes, or rice;
-Crumbled up,fried, added to canned or packaged gravy over frozen French fries, with your fav cheese,a great poutine;
-crumbled up, fried with a bit of onion, chili powder, can of drained rinsed,red beans, and cooked rice to make southern dirty rice;
-cut into halves, with fried mushrooms and onions tucked into a 4-6 inch piece of crusty bread, cheese optional;

*Sausages
Italian
-cut into slices, cooked with escarole, left over potatoe slices, pinch crushed chili, vegetable boullion, add a cup of milk, makes a potatoe/sausage/greens soup like Olive Garden;
-remove casing, fried with onions and peppers and fresh cherry tomatoes, tucked into mini sub rolls;
-sausage slices, cooked,add to your tomato sauce, frozen or jar, over penne pasta;
-sausage meat, casing removed, fried with onions, canned tomatoe sauce, add your fav spices,served over polenta;
-any sausage rolled into pilsberry refridgerator crescent rolls, baked and served with brown beans and/or eggs;
-breakfast sausage cooked, added to frittata(baked eggs/vegetables);
Bavarian or Oktoberfest
-sausages, baked with sliced potatoes(left-over/frozen hash browns) and sauerkraut, serve with mustard and rye bread;
-sausages, fried with onions and kraut tucked into pretzel flavoured rolls;
-sausages cooked with Dutch Girl red cabbage, left over(recipe on Dutch Girl Dinners), served with mash potatoes;
-any type of sausage meat, cut into slices, mixed with macaroni and cheese dinner, along with salad;
Chorizo or any Hot Spicy Sausage
-cooked, chopped into Spanish rice,made with a package or homemade;
-chopped, cooked with hot or sweet peppers,tucked into cheesy crusty garlic bread;
-chopped cooked with jar salsa, scrambled egg, tucked into heated flour tortillas;
Chicken Sausage
-cooked, sliced mixed with Alfredo sauce and sun dried tomatoes, over ziti/penne pasta;
-cooked without casing, made into white chili with white kidney beans, cumin, Mexican green chilies, veg stock and a cup of cream.

Any kind of deli meat, sliced thick, or left over meat from roast beef or pork
-paired with any type of potatoes, left over, frozen Hash browns, packaged scalloped potatoes;
-Chef salad;
-leftover pork shredded with barbeque sauce served with slaw and soft bread rolls;
-any type of left over meat, deli, sausage, hamburger, mixed with packaged rice or pasta mix(Knorr, uncle bens, Lipton);
-Cut into can soup, can stew, can beans;
-Heated and served with deli potato salad,and coleslaw, rye bread/rolls;
-sliced ham, chopped with green onions and egg made into western omelets;
-hot roast beef sandwiches, from deli slices, heated with gravy and over bread;
-roast beef, fried mushrooms and onions, flavoured horseradish mayonaise tucked into crusty rolls, salad;
-Italian style deli meats paired with olives, cheeses, grapes, crackers,served with your favourite soup;
-any kind of deli meat and cheese made into quesadilla, served with guacamole and salsa;
-chopped ham mixed with macaroni and cheese dinner, and crunchy celery, on the side