Annie, My family loves leftover roast pork in lots of asian inspired recipes, like fried rice, fresh rolls, wontons, steamed buns....... Or you could go latin and burritos, chili or the above suggested posole. A classic hunter's stew would also be lovely. Personally I have tons of left over smoked ham, and while we did have a lovely ham and egg breakfast yesterday, followed by a ham/mac/cheese casserole, I am now portioning the remaining ham into small packets for the freezer where it will be meted out in meals all winter long. Plus the kids are fighting over the bone to see if it will be pea soup or yankee bean.

Or, time to bring out the Bento faces and flowers kit, lol. (yeah, i have some...made Peewee's flower box puppets a few times) For the more serious, maybe a puff pastry tart or pinwheels. In a cupcake pan they could be little tarts. Generous with ham but add a bit of mustard cream and cheese on the bottom, small slice of pineapple, how about a fresh pitted cherry, (in stores now i've noticed), half a cherry tomato, ham and topped with a bit more cheese? Or some other combination delight, not necessarily Hawaiian. I'm making a Tourte Milanese Christmas morning. Not as mile-high, and adding a ring of artichoke hearts with the spinach...could also be made in smaller tartlets. Here is a link that might be useful: Tourte Milanese

I think they are so strict on her because she is an only child. I was the same way with my first. I would parcel out her Easter basket to her a little at a time. Now I'm like...eat it all in one day please and lets get the hidden wrapper phase and the hyperactivity over and done with. ha I relax all the healthy eating rules on the holidays. My kids thought they were in hog heaven with all the desserts, candy and sodas at their disposal, but this week it's back to being health conscious. I just drew a blank, was it you who is expecting another grandbaby? It's so nice today as long as the sun is out. I had to take my mom to the eye dr unexpectedly this morning. Part of her vitreous gel stuff in her eye detached from the optic nerve. They thought she had a detached retina, but it's not that bad although without treatment she could go blind. She was getting floaters and flashes in her eyes and she has a dark spot that she sees on one eye. He said that will fade in about 3 months. Anyway, we had lunch and stopped at the TS on the way home. I got some books and what looks like a hand carved oblong wooden bowl and a long peg board for a buck. Got chatting with a woman in there and I was thinking about you. Was wondering if we'd met like that in a TS if we'd have walked past each other or hit it off. ha She showed me all her finds, some she was buying for an elderly woman that didn't get out much and some very pretty glass vases that were a different almost turquoise blue color. Again I thought of you and your totems. She invited me to her community yard sale in May. I'll have to remember to keep an eye out for it in the paper. We didn't stay long so I managed to keep my purchases to a minimum. ha When we got home the sun was warming things up so much that I put on shorts and DH and I went out and laid on the hammock. We were out there for about an hour and the sun went behind the clouds and I got cold and had to come in. ha It was nice while it lasted. Warm weather will soon be here and I'm looking forward to it. Ready to do yard work and add a few new things to our yard. Maybe we'll get that firepit done this year, the playground area and the back flower beds put in??? I hope anyway. ~Anj

These are the kind of pinwheels I have made. Sometimes with various ingredients depending on what I have available. Easy and good. Also good are roll ups, a flour tortilla spread with some type of cheese spread or cream cheese, layer on top sliced ham, sliced cheese, some people put pickles and olives. Then roll up the tortilla and slice it into rounds. Pinwheels