End of the month meals; Fun with leftovers!

 Plenty of meat in the freezer for cooking, just not a lot else to go with it. So simple meals on repeat with a few flairs and changes for variation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you do when you don't feel like fixing goulash or DIY hamburger helper? Use up the left over chili! Chili Mac! I should have used the small elbows but this turned out tasty and used up the leftover enchilada sauce that was sitting in the fridge from weeks ago. Cheese and sour cream and I went back for seconds  and we had leftovers of that for next day lunch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another pound bag of the stew beef chunks had been pulled out and I had an entire day and night to try and figure out what to do with it. Hmmm, brown gravy and onion soup mix, peas and carrots, instant mashed potatoes.... another tasty and filling meal! Just salt and pepper on the beef chunks that I cut into bite size bits used a little unsalted butter in the pan and browned them before I added in the gravy mix with a cup of water, then mixed that around, added in the onion soup mix and another half cup of water then a cup of the peas and carrots, put the lid on to let everything cook through. Whipped up the instant mashed potatoes (my last bag of potatoes rotted sadly) and spoon meat and gravy over the potatoes.... tasty. Would have preferred mushrooms mixed in but that can be for next time.

And for today's meal, innovation and invention. I have always loved cauliflower with cheese, it is one of my favorite dishes but the cheese mix I grew up on is no longer available. Sadness and dismay, it was a McCormick cheese sauce packet I believe and you just added milk and it tasted like nothing else. So what to do with a small head of cauliflower that I broke up to use yesterday and decided not to? Mac n Cheese! Oh yes and oven baked barbecue chicken with the rotisserie chicken seasoning (which I need to remember not to be so heavy handed, very salty)

The other issue right now is we are shutting up with the AC due to the heat outside which makes cooking carefully a priority. Right now the entire apartment smells like bbq sauce and pepper but also a bit of smoke from the oven. Using the oven also heats up the front half of the apartment as well. 

Adventures in cooking!