Ten cheap and easy dinners with beef or pork roast

noodle soup
pork or beef roast
home made pasta noodles, or boxed is fine
juice from the roast or 2 cups beef broth
3 cups water
cut up celery, onions, carrots, or whatever you like in your soup
low to medium heat (simmer) an hour
bring to a boil, add the noodles
do not immediately stir, let the noodles boil 2 to 3 minutes.
Then stir once, swipe the noodles with the spoon, wait a minute, swipe again.
needs to boil about 5 to 6 minutes in all, then turn the heat down to down and when the rolling boil has stopped cover and let it simmer a few more minutes.

Pot pie
premade, or homemade pie crust, top and bottom
You can use metal or tin pie pans (like what the crust come in)
or you can fit a pie crust inside a smaller sized casserole dish.
Pork or beef roast
1 can cut green beans
can of sliced carrots
can potato chunks (or regular potatoes, pre chunked and pre cooked)
to get the right consistency in your potatoes for soup, or potato salad, boil them
only long enough that you can stab them with a fork but they don't fall apart.
You want to add your meat and veggies together in a pot. Drain all your cans of veggies
and add half a cup of the broth from your roast into your pot.
cook this on a simmer until the veggies are cooked and most of the both has cooked
out of your pot.
For pot pie you will need to make a gravy. Make your gravy with the juice of the
roast you cooked.
get you a skillet, and two tablespoons of oil to a heated skillet, (needs to be on med heat)
when you see your oil has heated good, add 1 small spoonful of regular flour to the oil
and use your spoon to continuously keep scraping that flour around in the oil until it gets covered and smooth
you have to be quick about this so it doesn't burn. It's ok if it turns brown, its supposed to.
very quick like, add the juice in there and keep continuously stirring until it thickens up.
once it reaches a creamy consistency take it off the heat right away. scrape this gravy
over into your veggies and meat and stir it around, making sure you get everything good and
covered with the gravy. At this point, add whatever seasonings you prefer, salt and pepper,
I like parsley in mine.
stir it good again to get the seasonings in there good
then scoop into your bottom half pie crust. Add the top part and go around the edges and
seal them up. poke the top with your fork in three places.
Bake at 325 until your pie crust is golden brown (usually about 20 minutes or so)

Red soup
leftover roast
2 can of green beans
1 can of corn
1 can sliced potatoes (or you can add the potato chunks, what we talked about above)
1 large can tomato paste
1 can of diced tomatoes.
add all of this together in the pot, liquid from your canned veggies included.
season and simmer till the veggies are done.

Beef stroganoff
1 16 oz carton of sour cream
1 pack of dried onion soup mix
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1 pack of egg noodles
In separate pot, cook your egg noodles.
Add your roast into a large pot
add mushrooms if you prefer, 1 large can
Add one cup of juice from roast, or 1 cup beef stock.
add in the dried onion soup
simmer on low, 15 minutes or until your egg noodles are done then take it off the heat.
in a bowl put all of the sour cream,
add in the flour to the sour cream and mix really well.
add this to your meat and mushrooms
stir good then add in your cooked egg noodles
turn all this in your pot until your egg noodles are good and coated.

Here are some other ideas, I figure are self explanatory.
shredded bbq
pulled pork tacos
Nachos (you can use corn tortillas, cut them into 4's,
and fry them in oil for tortilla chips) top with whatever you like
Southern comfort food- pulled bbq pork, over french fries and topped with coleslaw
taquitos- basically roll your roast into corn tortillas with a little cheese and bake


Here is a good link for homemade pasta
Homemade pasta
And here is one for homemade tortillas
Flour
Corn