Unless your entire household is made up of vegetarians or vegans there is simply no way that you will not have some sort of meat left over from the Xmas festivities.
Personally I tend to favour the naturally more 'moist' birds and beasts at this time of year over the traditional turkey, but even these cuts and joints will be looking pretty damn dry by now - especially after a few days in the fridge...
Now, in my opinon the easiest way to salvage these Christmas endeavours from the bin liner is to find a way to add some moisture back to the meat, cranberry sauces and various chuntneys are fine but here is an incredibly easy way to make a simple honey mustard dressing that will make the perfect accompaniment to that left over turkey/ham/roast beef. It doubles up as a salad dressing of course and best of all it costs nada to make!
Makes a jar's worth:
1 clean & sterilised jar (just pour some boiling in an old jar and the lid to do so)
2 heaped tbsp of Whole-grain mustard
2 generous tbsp of clear honey
2-3 generous tbsp of cider vinegar (white wine vinegar will do)
A very generous glug of olive oil (aprox 8 tbsp)
1 garlic clove, crushed or very very finely chopped
A squeeze of lemon
Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl and stir/whisk to emulsify and season to taste. You may well find that you wish to add more mustard, lemon, vinegar or even some chopped tarragon so just play around with it until you have what tastes right to you.
Now carefully pour into your sterilised jar, close, shake and there you go. Perfect to spoon onto lightly tosted bread for a sandwich, perfect for a glaze, perfect for a salad dressing, perfect for keeping in the fridge for a couple of weeks to use as you please.
Best of all you'll never want to buy the stuff from a shop again.
Happy Xmas leftovers!
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