I have been meaning to post about this for a while now... because I love hash.
I don't just make it out of corned beef. You can make hash out of any leftover meat, and throw in leftover vegetables - it is a great way to use leftovers, and can make an impressive breakfast or lunch (or even dinner). For breakfast, top with poached eggs - for lunch or dinner, serve with bread and salad.
Here is a hash that I whipped up in DC for my friends. It was awesome!
Four little leftover cooked lambchops, meat cut up fine A handful of sliced prosciutto and some mozzerella I took out of a leftover sandwich, chopped up Half a green and half a red bell pepper, diced One onion, diced Four small red potatoes, diced in 1/2 inch dice
First boil the potatoes till tender. Saute the peppers and onions until tender. Mix the cooked potatoes and vegetables - add the meat and cheese and mix well. Add salt and pepper and any other seasonings you wish to your taste.
Heat a saute pan that will hold the mixture in a sort of flattened patty. Add a couple of tablespoons of oil, and heat until the oil is hot. Then add the hash mixture and cook over medium heat until brown and crispy on the bottom; at this point you need to turn the hash over, which you can do by flipping using another pan, or slide it out onto a plate and flip it that way. Cook the other side until crispy, too.
You can use virtually any combination of meat and vegetables, using your imagination as a guide... don't throw anything away, use it in hash!
This sounds so good. It was a regular at our house when I was growing up, and Mom arrives tomorrow for a visit, so this would be a good time to resurrect it.
We even had a family name for it, something my little brother called it when he was a toddler -- who knows why. Radich.
I am completely addicted to frittatas for supper - in fact I had one last night. Now, I'm going to have to try making hash. What a great idea. Shannon, thanks for posting!
Terry, I was just thinking the same thing! Man, lamb hash. That sounds like something that should go on a restaurant menu. And I don't mean a greasy-spoon.
Shannon, I've printed that recipe off. I'm going to the store to buy the lamb chops tomorrow. This may be leftovers for you, but its Friday night candlelit dinner for Dan & me.
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Shannon - the recipe for your hash DOES sound really delicious -- but my first thought on reading it was -- how does ANYONE end up with four left-over lamb chops?????!!!!! Never happens around my house -- bones maybe - but chops - Nope.
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Every time I see the title of this thread I have to laugh - it just sounds like the short word for a certain "recreational drug". I never thought it was just for breakfast, anyway - in fact I didn't know it was for breakfast at all!
Hee - just got back from a 10 day road trip and saw these "what? leftover lamb chops?" comments.
Basically, my flight to DC was almost three hours late, so what was suppose to be dinner turned out to be a very late night snack. THAT is why we had leftover baby lamb chops.
But sometimes everything just works out the way it should.
Originally posted by Chiocciola: Every time I see the title of this thread I have to laugh - it just sounds like the short word for a certain "recreational drug". I never thought it was just for breakfast, anyway - in fact I didn't know it was for breakfast at all!
I thought the same thing you did Chiocciola. Like what? A bowl of hash for breakfast? hmmm ... LOL... some people in Haight - Ashbury area here in San Francisco probably did have some for breakfast, and maybe some for lunch, and what the heck, dinner too.
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