Leftovers

Leftovers!  What to do with leftovers?  Never know what to do with all these leftovers--hate to pitch them.  It's all good stuff and should be used, if only in a different way.  Case in point:  We had a brisket that was smoked--

Meal #1 Sandwiches

Meal #2  Brisket hash

Meal #3 Brisket tacos

and there is still lots of brisket leftovers

To put this out of mind--brisket was wrapped and placed in the freezer--

The thing about food leftovers is search engine will hand you many recipes using your given ingredients.

As I was fretting over leftovers, I was cleaning out the freezer—why some of these things were here?? I pulled out package of hot dog buns—why did we have these?  

We don’t eat hot dogs!!  Found container of mixed fruit 

Idea!! 

Took six eggs beaten, 1/2 cup of melted butter, 3/4 cup white sugar, splash of rum, and fruit mixed all together; tore buns into bits to place in greased 8”x8” pan,  sprinkled cinnamon over the top, topped with egg mixture 

And baked till knife came out clean when stuck in the middle.  Now, that’s a good leftover—bread pudding!   It's not the prettiest thing pulled from the oven but the taste is delicious--added rum sauce before we ate.

Another leftover is these four 16" applique quilt blocks! 

 I love those blocks!  

Don't want to make another quilt.  Heaven knows how many orphan block quilts I've made.  It is fun to stir your creative to build a quilt top with various odd blocks that shouldn't fit together, but they do pull together to give a pleasing look. Guess they will just need to let them 'age' a little longer.

My brain has been searcing for that perfect finished product.

I used the search engine to give me some ideas--nothing dinged!

Every idea was to grow a quilt top or how to make a 16" pieced block

not what I want..  I want something unique and unusual.  After all, I took time to applique each perfect stitch.  These blocks do need to be special!

Back to the bread pudding—at least that was an accomplishment for leftovers.