Easter Leftover Tips

It's almost that time of year again. You're standing, dumbfounded, in front of a mound of hard boiled eggs, sliced ham and chocolate Easter bunnies. You wonder "what am I going to do with six dozen eggs, 6 pounds of ham and 25 chocolate bunnies". The stress of it is almost enough to send you to bed for a week -- or at least tear most of your hair out. Here are a few ideas and recipes to help you avoid both of those.
Jill Cooper and Tawra Kellam
Leftover bunnies
Take a rolling pin to them and crush the life out of them. Then use the crumbs to sprinkle on ice cream, use in milk shakes, stir a few in a mug of hot chocolate, use in place of chocolate chips for making cookies or melt for dipping fruit and candy.

Leftover ham
Save bone for bean or split pea soup. Make ham salad, chef salad or ham sandwiches. Chop and freeze to use in: potato salad, scrambled eggs, omelets, to top baked potatoes, for potato soup, scalloped potatoes, au gratin potatoes, pasties or pizza with pineapple.

Top tortilla with ham, salsa, and cheddar cheese and warm, for hot ham and cheese sandwiches.

Leftover eggs
Make potato salad, tuna salad, pasta salad, chef salad, spinach salad with eggs and bacon, deviled eggs, golden morning sunshine or fill tomatoes with egg salad.

Golden Morning Sunshine
Ingredients:
2 cups white sauce
4 eggs, hard boiled and chopped

White Sauce:
Ingredients:
1/4 cup dry milk
2 tablespoons flour
Dash salt
1 cup cold water
1 tablespoon margarine

Directions:
In a covered jar, combine dry milk, flour and salt and mix well. Add water. Shake until all the ingredients are dissolved. Melt margarine in a 1-quart sauce pan. Stir in flour-milk mixture and cook over low heat until mixture thickens and starts to bubble. Keep stirring until thickened completely.

Once the white sauce has thickened, add eggs. Serve on toast.PregnancyAndBaby.com

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