Using Leftovers - Chicken Wings

Considering that more chicken wings will get consumed this weekend than any other time this post seems appropriately timed.  My pathetic ability to consume large amounts of food recently left me with 3 of the 5 wings I ordered left over.  These particular wings came from Pluckers and are Lemon Pepper.

There is also a chunk of left over summer sausage that got thrown in just because.  Cover about a cup of split peas in about 2 cups of water and get them a simmering.

Chop up the meats, leaving out all the inedible bits like bones.

Toss them in with the peas and cook for about 30 minutes (enough time to get in a quick workout).  Stir on occasion and add more water if need be.  Taste for salt (wings and sausage have quite a bit so you don't want to over do it) and add more as necessary.

Serve up and enjoy.

Using Leftovers

In case you couldn't tell from the many other posts, I don't eat just a ton of meat.  (Un)Fortunately I end up at quite a few steak restaurants for team dinners because the rest of the corporate world likes to eat steak.  My Solution?  Order a bunch of sides to share with the table and skip the steak. It works out pretty good because I get to try an bunch of things and then there isn't the awkward moment where I have to explain that the side they are serving to the entire table was actually my meal.  Of course there are always leftovers and when I am in Dallas I ask for those to be boxed up so I can get a few more meals out of them.  In this instance there were leftover sauteed mushrooms which were screaming at me to go into an omelette. So into a skillet they went to reheat, toss in a few green onions, two scrambled eggs and some gouda and you have yourself an awesome meal.  Now, don't be like me and just scramble everything into a hot mess (evidence by the awesome unappetizing looking picture below).  Spend some time and make a nice looking omelette so when you take a picture it looks amazing.  Or not because you are way too hungry to take that kind of time.