curly_kate
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I have a bunch of ham steaks and pork sausage in my freezer. Anyone have some good recipes?
Pork recipes
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Sausage dip. My hubby and kiddo loves it!
All you do is fry up 1 pound of the sausage, drain it, add a 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 cup of your favorite cheese, diced tomatoes and chillies. Cook in the skillet for about 10 minutes or until it thickens a bit.
You can pour over burritos, tacos, or serve with tortilla chips. It's a little rich for us to just use as a dip, so we make taocs or taco salad with it usually.
We use sausage a lot in breakfast burritos too for something a little different ever once in a while. That may even be good in a breakfast burrito...hmmm...you got me thinking now
All you do is fry up 1 pound of the sausage, drain it, add a 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 cup of your favorite cheese, diced tomatoes and chillies. Cook in the skillet for about 10 minutes or until it thickens a bit.
You can pour over burritos, tacos, or serve with tortilla chips. It's a little rich for us to just use as a dip, so we make taocs or taco salad with it usually.
We use sausage a lot in breakfast burritos too for something a little different ever once in a while. That may even be good in a breakfast burrito...hmmm...you got me thinking now
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curly_kate
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That sounds delicious! I will definitely give that a try!
No one else has any ideas?
No one else has any ideas?
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just fry 'em up in a pan and eat eat eat! dont forget the taters. we ate our way thru 76 pounds of ham from last year's pigs. by june. there is only two of us. ok maybe there is no excuse for that but wow it was good eating.
;-)
you can also do the ham steak in the crock pot for easy hands free - add beans and what could be better?
use the sausage as a base for tomato/meat sauce in your pasta dishes if you have a more 'breakfasty' sausage just add italian spices to balance it out. then its baked ziti, lasgana, penne bolognese, etc etc. you can also use it in savory bread pudding/stuffings.
use either in egg dishes - scrambles or quiche
we tend to do LESS spiced sausage and go for more plain ground pork and then we use it like ground beef.
;-)
you can also do the ham steak in the crock pot for easy hands free - add beans and what could be better?
use the sausage as a base for tomato/meat sauce in your pasta dishes if you have a more 'breakfasty' sausage just add italian spices to balance it out. then its baked ziti, lasgana, penne bolognese, etc etc. you can also use it in savory bread pudding/stuffings.
use either in egg dishes - scrambles or quiche
we tend to do LESS spiced sausage and go for more plain ground pork and then we use it like ground beef.
patandchickens
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Ham is great in all sorts of things, you can sliver up those slices and put it in: pan-fried potatoes (home fries, hash browns, that sort of thing), scalloped or au gratin potatoes, scrambled eggs, frittata, omelette, fried rice, soups, pasta alfredo, etc etc.
If you want to eat the ham steaks whole, heat them (in pan or oven) with a glaze made of mustard and honey, or mustard and jam, or curry paste and honey, or some sauce left over from the previous night's curry dish.
Sausage, OMG, you can do ANYTHING with sausage
It even makes excellent meatballs (for eating plain, or with spaghetti, or in calzones or on pizza, or in casseroles, or...)
Bon appetit,
Pat
If you want to eat the ham steaks whole, heat them (in pan or oven) with a glaze made of mustard and honey, or mustard and jam, or curry paste and honey, or some sauce left over from the previous night's curry dish.
Sausage, OMG, you can do ANYTHING with sausage
It even makes excellent meatballs (for eating plain, or with spaghetti, or in calzones or on pizza, or in casseroles, or...)Bon appetit,
Pat
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mix the great sausage into meatloaf when you make one, it makes it so much more tasty
ham steaks are great with pineapple
I just put the steak into a baking dish and open a can of crushed pineapple over top with juice and bake away
sausage is great in rice also....make a bunch of dirty rice and add in tons of sausage--yummy
ham steaks are great with pineapple
I just put the steak into a baking dish and open a can of crushed pineapple over top with juice and bake away
sausage is great in rice also....make a bunch of dirty rice and add in tons of sausage--yummy
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Scalloped potatoes w/ham.
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curly_kate
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I KNEW you guys would have some great ideas!
OFG - is it easy to spice your sausage yourself? I'm not sure if our butcher would do make us breakfast sausage and Italian sausage, so maybe it will be easier next time to just have them leave it all plain and spice it myself.
OFG - is it easy to spice your sausage yourself? I'm not sure if our butcher would do make us breakfast sausage and Italian sausage, so maybe it will be easier next time to just have them leave it all plain and spice it myself.
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ohmigosh yes!
you shoulda seen me when i realized The Big Lie about sausage... shhh.. its just spiced meat. (gasp!)
i KNOW! can you believe it!?!?
geesh. i was so mad. basically aside from smoked sausages - you can do it all yourself. if you have a sausage stuffer (ok you all know i'm way too immature to talk about that, right?) you can even do the links easily.
we just like the bulk sausage...or really... ground pork. and since we do our own butchering and grinding we can do whatever. this is how i found out The big Sausage Lie.
if we want sausage we add to ground pork:
basic: sage, pepper, salt, fennel and
- for italian: rosemary, red pepper, thyme
- for breakfasty kind (which neither of us really like too often): maple syrup, nutmeg
oh - here is a good site:
http://www.sausagemania.com/recipes.html#breakfast
its so easy peasy.
then we put into 1 pound packages(freezer bags) and freeze flat, stacked up.
you can ask the butcher for how they did it and just adjust. there are TONS of great recipes online. but if you really want to do it up right get Ruhlmans book. he's got it goin' on.
you shoulda seen me when i realized The Big Lie about sausage... shhh.. its just spiced meat. (gasp!)
i KNOW! can you believe it!?!?
geesh. i was so mad. basically aside from smoked sausages - you can do it all yourself. if you have a sausage stuffer (ok you all know i'm way too immature to talk about that, right?) you can even do the links easily.
we just like the bulk sausage...or really... ground pork. and since we do our own butchering and grinding we can do whatever. this is how i found out The big Sausage Lie.
if we want sausage we add to ground pork:
basic: sage, pepper, salt, fennel and
- for italian: rosemary, red pepper, thyme
- for breakfasty kind (which neither of us really like too often): maple syrup, nutmeg
oh - here is a good site:
http://www.sausagemania.com/recipes.html#breakfast
its so easy peasy.
then we put into 1 pound packages(freezer bags) and freeze flat, stacked up.
you can ask the butcher for how they did it and just adjust. there are TONS of great recipes online. but if you really want to do it up right get Ruhlmans book. he's got it goin' on.
