Winner of a Dinner!!

We had a pork roast for dinner on Sunday, and there were plenty of leftovers. I told Big Chubb he wasn't allowed to touch it because I had this recipe in mind.

Leftover Pork and Vegetables
Serves 2

1/3 cup chopped red onion
1/2 cup chopped sweet red or chopped green pepper
1 celery rib, chopped

Sorry. Phone picture :(

1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
1 cup cubed cooked pork
3/4 cup frozen carrots, thawed (I just used fresh carrots)
1 jar sliced mushrooms, drained ( I omitted these because we didn't have any)
1/2 cup pork gravy
1/3 cup chicken broth'
2 tablespoons soy sauce'
1/8 teaspoon pepper
hot cooked rice

In a skillet, saute the onion, red pepper and celery in oil until crisp tender. Add the pork, carrots, mushrooms, gravy, broth, soy sauce and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes or until carrots are tender. Serve over rice.

Big Chubb and I were quite skeptical. I didn't think the little chubblets would even touch it, especially when they saw the green peppers in it. To everybody's great surprise it turned out pretty darn good. In fact, I think it might have been a little bit better than the original meal (gasp!), even with the strange mixture of ingredients (pork gravy and soy sauce?).

Even the picky babies gobbled it right up, green peppers and all!

I think it helped that we had the next recipe as a bargaining chip for them.

Jello Yogurt Fluff

1 package jello (4 serving size)
2 cups orange juice
2 6-8 ounce cartons yogurt, any flavor
cut up fruit (if you like)*

1. Heat 1 cup orange juice in saucepan until lit is very hot
2. Add jello and stir until it is dissolved.
3. Mix in other cup of orange juice.
4. Chill jello in the refrigerator until it is like syrup (1-2 hours)
5. Pour into bowl. Add yogurt. Beat with a mixture until jello is fluffy.
6. Add cup fruit if you like.
7. Return jello yogurt fluff to refrigerator.
8. Spoon into dishes to serve.

Serves 8

*Don't use fresh pineapple or kiwi. The jello won't set.

We had raspberry jello and peach yogurt. I figured all those flavors would come together.

This recipe was the star of the meal! Little Chubb wouldn't stop eating it, and just kept asking for more. He probably had 3/8 of it for dinner and then had all the leftovers the next day for lunch. We will most definitely be including this into our meal rotation especially, during the summer.