Lovely Leftovers

I really love when what you make with your leftovers is better than the original dish.

I grew up on comfort food and lots of leftovers. The closest grocery store was about 20 minutes away from our house, so we had to use up what we had and just make due. This way of living lead to my dad's famous (or infamous) Egg Surprise. Scrambled eggs and whatever we had leftover in the fridge. Not separate. Oh no. Mixed in with the eggs. Yes, we had chili mixed into our scrambled eggs! Better than you would think.

So, a few days ago I made pot roast (I seared the roast on all sides and then added chopped up new potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, onions, and a few sprigs of fresh rosemary. I added water and wine [cabernet sauvignon] about 3/4 of the way up the roast. I cooked the roast at 300 degrees for about 4 1/2 hours). It was good, but nothing great. Usually when I make roast it is just so I can use the roast and veggies to make other things. And that is what we (or Ike) did for dinner tonight.

He made what he calls Pinwheels. Very simple. He made homemade biscuit dough and rolled it out, took the cold roast beef and spread it across the dough and then rolled it up, just like you would cinnamon rolls. He cut the dough roll into little discs like so.

He baked them at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes.

While baking these little discs of deliciousness, he took the beef broth we saved from the roast and made a simple brown gravy. About the time the gravy was ready, Voila! The pinwheels were ready.

We drizzled a little gravy over the pinwheels and a new delicious favorite leftover creation was born (at least to me, Ike's mom used to make them for their family).

Not quite as ground breaking as scrambled eggs and chili, but scrumptious none the less.