I would make a steak and strawberry salad, thin strips of steak, with a vinaigrette, bacon crumbles, sauteed green beans. I'm sure Jack Daniels and watermelon can make a cocktail, maybe a killer one, maybe with a stick of bacon for the stirrer. Or cube the melon and soak in whiskey with sugar as needed.

All great ideas! July 4th leftovers will be used today! I'll try refreshing the rolls pinkmountain!

Whiskey and lemons? Lynchburg lemonade. Replace triple sec and sour mix with homemade lemonade.

• 1 part Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7
• 1 part triple sec
• 1 part sour mix
• 4 parts lemon-lime soda

I'd start with a salad with the greens and some cubed watermelon, and a vinaigrette of the strawberries pureed with vinegar and oil (add some feta if you have it). For the main, I'd make pot pies with the steak, chopped up with the green beans and some potatoes. For dessert, a lemon tart with JD spiked whipped cream.

I'd first of all, get the Jack Daniels out of the refrigerator and into a glass over some ice cubes with a twist of lemon, then I would make a steak sandwich out of thinly sliced steak on the hard rolls....warm the green beans....and make a salad with the greens, dressed with lemon juice and some good olive oil and a little salt and pepper and cube the melon, sale it gently and serve on the salad. I would whip the cream..or not....and serve it with the berries for dessert.

So the 4th of July is over. In my basket I have strawberries, left over medium rare rib eye steaks, left over green beans with onions and bacon, some hard left over rolls. In my fridge I have whipping cream, watermelon, salad greens, lemons and some Jack Daniels. How would you win this challenge?

So first of all, Have You Ever Heard of REHYDRATING Meat? Just saying, I have seen plenty of pros rehydrate meat by putting a liquid, seasoning, and the meat into a vacuum sealer and then letting it "soak" in the liquid, heck even I can do it. Next coat it in a breading of the hard left over rolls and bacon, also put butter or some other liquid (like lemon juice from the lemons) in the breading mixture that way the meat doesn't get dry. Since the meat is already cooked you don't have to put it in the oven to finish it off, so you may want to do all of the stuff I have already said towards the end. Also this is in the CHOPPED kitchen right? Anywho to take away from the richness of the rare rib eye steaks with a warm green bean onion salad with a vinagret (I don't think that that is spelled right but whatever). The warm vinagret will be made of the strawberries some lemon juice, the stuff you have left over) and water. The sweetness of the strawberries will compenstate for the no sugar. First however you will want to masarate the strawberries in water and then blend that all together with one part of lemon juice and watermelon. The green beans will be put into a sauce pan with the vinagret. Serve the warm salad on top of the lemon, bacon, roll incrusted rib eye with the lemon, watermelon, strawberry vinagret. The end, you won, MERRY CHRISTMAS.