Dinners - Round 2!

My husband and I really prefer homemade meals and try to avoid fast food and prepackaged foods whenever possible.  This can be a bit time-consuming, but I don't mind because I love to cook!  However, if I am going to take the time to cook from scratch, I like to cook in larger quantities.  This results in a lot of leftovers for just two people. 

Until recently, we might have eaten the same thing two days in a row, but by that third day...we are pushing the leftovers to the side in search of something more interesting. 

For example...A few days ago, I made Italian Beef in the crockpot (3 1/2 lbs).  It was really good that night and Terry even shared some with his work crew the next day for lunch.  But we were still left with a good sized Ziploc container full of the stuff and fairly tired of eating it anymore.  I knew that I wanted to use the leftovers to create a new dinner, but wasn't sure what direction to go!  I checked out the pantry and found Pace Picante Sauce and taco shells.  Perfect!  I was going to make beef tacos with the Italian Beef leftovers.

It was simple.  I just added the leftover Italian Beef and some Pace Picante sauce to a saucepan and heated it through on the stovetop.  I baked the taco shells and gathered all of the fixin's for tacos.  It literally took me just under 10 minutes to make a really great dinner!

This meal inspired me to find more "redos" for my recipes!  I hope to add this as it's own section on this blog as I create more  "Dinners - Round 2".