The Post T-Day MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It’s too early for a post-TDay MMP you say? I beg to differ!

I thought it would be fun to post our after-Turkey Day recipes! How do you use up your leftovers? I saw Paula Deen make fried stuffing on a stick. Heh. She also made deep-fried slices of breaded, canned jellied cranberry sauce! Hey, Swampy – aren’t you from her same town? Do you make crazy fried everything, too? :wink:

I love a turkey sammich with turkey, Miracle Whip, lettuce and tomato on white bread, myself. But there’s so much more to use up!
Turkey Spaghetti

2 cups cooked turkey, diced (you can use chicken for this recipe, too, of course!)
1 tbs veg oil
1 onion, diced
½ green bell pepper, diced
3 ribs celery, diced
8 oz mushrooms, sliced
1 15 oz can diced tomatoes
2 cans cream of mushroom or chicken soup (or one of each!)
1 cup chicken stock, or leftover turkey broth from boiling a turkey carcass
½ lb Velveeta, cubed (you can use shredded cheddar, but Velveeta is melty and smooth!)
8 oz spaghetti, snapped in half, and cooked in broth if you have it
¼ lb shredded cheddar

If you are boiling a carcass to get the meat off, save the broth to cook the spaghetti in. Reserve about ½ cup or so, to thin out the casserole.

Saute the onion, bell pepper, celery and mushrooms in the oil over medium heat. Add salt and pepper to taste. When softened, add tomatoes and soup. Add a bit of stock to thin it. Add Velveeta, and stir until getting melty. Thin it again if necessary. Mix it all together with the spaghetti, and dump into a 13 x 9 that has been sprayed with Pam. Top with shredded cheddar. Bake for 30 minutes at 350° until bubbly and cheese is melted.

Or just use The Pioneer Woman’s Recipe. But mine is better! :wink:

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Gotta do it just to be first. First!

As to the topic, I got nothing. I’m a vegan.

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So, you don’t eat dinner on Thanksgiving? :stuck_out_tongue: Give us vegan recipes! It doesn’t have to use up turkey - any vegetable will do!

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Leftovers?:dubious:

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Hey, that turkey spaghetti is a lot like turkey tetrazzini, just add some bread crumbs on top. That’s one of my favorite post-T day recipes. My version of the sandwich is: turkey, Miracle Whip, cornbread stuffing and cranberry sauce (preferably the whole berry kind). I will, in fact, be taking at least two of those sandwiches in to work with me on Friday. Whether or not they make it til lunch is another story …!

We also like to do a turkey pot pie; I saw Rachel Ray’s take on one on the Food Network’s Thanksgiving show this weekend; she does the shepherds pie thing, with a crust of leftover sweet potatoes. My pot pie recipe is pretty simple: cut up turkey, with a bag of frozen mixed veggies and a can of cream of chicken (or creamy chicken mushroom) soup. Rachel made a brown gravy, no crusts but put a layer of mashed sweet potatoes on top, then a layer of shredded cheddar atop of all, then baked until the cheese bubbled. Looked really delish (LOL … as Rachel says!). She put leftover veggies in there too; usually my veggies are all gone, believe it or not!

Great OP, Rebo; I’ll add more recipes, with better ingredient lists I promise, as the week goes on. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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My mom usually ends up making enchiladas with the leftovers. Yum. I don’t know if we’ll have any leftovers for Thanksgiving since we’re going up to my grandparents. My dad has cooked the turkey for the whole family for the past few years, which is great because he’s not really the social type and it gives him something to do so he interacts with the rest of the family (besides beating us all at contract rummy, the sandbagging bastard =^.^=). He’ll probably end up cooking two cookies at Christmas - one for us and one for the extended family.

I’ve bought Christmas presents for my parents today and I know what I’m giving my boyfriend, so my shopping is pretty much done. Yay!

Well, I’m supposed to be paying bills, not goofing off on the internet so, I guess I’ll go do that real quick.

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Oh yeah, sorry. . .I should have added that I’m a vegan who doesn’t cook and who doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. I was in a rush to be first so I abbreviated a little. :wink:

I just eat stuff I normally eat. I’ve been eyeing a Tofurky this year at Whole Foods but I’m not sure I want to try something new on Thanksgiving when nothing else is open and I’d end up eating crackers or something if it didn’t work out. We’ll see.

I’m with doggio. Leftovers? :high fives doggio:

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This, usually. And sammiches, of course, gotta have turkey and gravy and stuffing sammiches. Then for breakfast it’s thin sliced turkey heated up in some gravy, then NOT pancakes made from the leftover garlic smashed NOT smothered in the gravy and turkey. Best breakfast ever–with a slice of apple pie afterward.

I really like turkey…

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Rebo I didn’t grow up in Albeeeny. Thus I am not genetically inclined to fry gravy. :smiley:

I like turkey sammiches, so a bunch of leftover turkey goes into sammiches. I will boil the carcass for broth which gets frozen to use in soups etc. That’s always good. I will have nuttin’ to do with that Satanic spawn known as Miracle Whip. Ick!

I lurve leftover dressin’ and gravy with cranberry sauce. MMMMMMMM… to me it’s so much better the day or two after. Sometimes I make turkey 'n dumplins. That’s good too.

Usually there’s not much leftover beyond a day or two cause there will be twelve folks at da cave to eat on turkey day. Everybody brings stuff. I do the turkey and dressin’, gravy and collards. Course this year I have the infamous Lane Cake too.

Ok, time to go seek out caffiene and brekkies. Today is Monday. Woo and Hoo.

Later Y’all!

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What, another MMP all about food and recipes…? :smack:

:stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

No T-day in this neck of the woods. Although due to dietary oddities (ie., most Israelis won’t eat pork) almost every day here is Turkey Day.

OK, not a whole big-ass bird shoved into the oven, granted… but still.

Looks like I may not need to fly on business again this week. Or maybe I will. Maybe I’ll find out in 3 hours that I need to fly out in 18 hours… :rolleyes: :smack: We shall see. This “long commute” is getting old, fast…

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No T Day here either. I cant wait to move to the US (whenever that may be!) and experience Thanksgiving - the food, the tv and the parades! I’ve missed this place -I’m glad I found a few mintues to pop in by to see how everyone is doing. I’ve been so busy with coursework and work work lately that I’ve not really had the time. Coursework is driving me bonkers! I need to get my Evidence coursework done today otherwise I suspect I’ll have a big ole fail beside my name! Its soooooo boring!

Sooo how is everyone?

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But… but… but… its was brits what created the very **idea **of Thanksgiving! :confused: :smiley:

Speaking only for myself, at least one of the components of this place has missed you, too :slight_smile:

Fine. So, how you doin’? :smiley:

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I am looking forwad to the turkey bowl that the local news puts on every year. They use frozen turkeys as bowling balls and cans of cranbery sauce as the pins. There are many “Butterball Gutter Balls” :slight_smile:

It is so much fun to watch as I get things ready in the morning.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I really like preparing all the food.

I don’t have any leftover recipes. Open faced turkey sandwiches are the most common the next day.

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Obligatory Monday Morning blurf. More later.

Carry on.

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Ooooh, yum! Thanksgiving leftovers! I’ll have to dig out a couple of recipes tonight. I like making Enchiladas Suizas with turkey. Also, soup. And other stuff I’m forgetting.

Happy Monday, everyone!

GT

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SOUP.

The whole idea of making turkey is to be able to make turkey soup. My sister-in-law is hosting T-day, so I have procured my OWN TURKEY which I will be roasting separately so we can have our OWN LEFTOVERS and, not coincidentally, SOUP. With homemade noodles. And homemade bread. And some very nice cheese.

"Beautiful soup, so rich and green!
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
Beau-ootiful Soo-oop!
Beau-ootiful Soo-oop!
Soo-oop of the e-e-evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two
Pennyworth only of beautiful soup?
Beau-ootiful Soo-oop!
Beau-ootiful Soo-oop!
Soo-oop of the e-e-evening,
Beautiful, beauti-FUL SOUP!"

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Count me in as another naysayer to Miracle Whip. :p:p:p Turkey sammiches should never be graced by anything but Helmans or Dukes. So there :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t really have any recipes for leftovers. We will probably have at least one do-over meal with them and sammiches and then I will be sick of turkey and will probably make up the rest of it into the goggie’s food.

I am off today and plan to give my floors a good moppin and then go peruse Big Lots for stocking stuffers. I would truly love to have all my Xmas shopping done by the end of the week. I’ve already bought several things online so I’m doing pretty good.

I am looking at a wine cooler for Mr. Anachi. There are several affordable ones on Overstock that I may opt for. Anybody have one?

Tupug

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Brekkied, and on my second cup of WTHU.

Saturday was another long day in the ER. I worked with a couple of nurses, one a guy, who were good, liked me, and did their best to teach me while also making me their gofer. As of Saturday, I had 3 successful IV starts out of 20, and I bagged another success yesterday at a nasty car wreck.

The most memorable person Saturday was not staff or patient, but another EMT student with little people skills and very questionable fashion taste. She had on this long blond wig that defies credible description. My encounter with her was while I was trying (unsuccessfully) to start an IV on a patient with Teh Sick who was dehydrated. She kept massaging the belly of the patient, all the time telling me I should use the BP cuff as a tourniquet while I did the IV. Yeah, whatever. That’s a field trick that works best with a trauma patient, provided you’re using a manual cuff. The automagic ones in the ER have a mind of their own, and cannot be relied on to hold pressure. :rolleyes:

People who think they know everything really annoy those of us that do. I tokk to calling her Looney Lovegood, but none of the nurses I worked with have read any Harry Potter, so they missed the reference.

In a :smack: moment for me, I borrowed a ladder yesterday from the fire station so I could sweep my chimney, and it was way too short.

An exciting new twist on recipes in general: can I solicit some of y’all to help me generate something new? I know what a Scotch Egg is, and I want to try a variant to go with my low carb diet.

My idea is to cover the hardboiled egg in sausage, leaving out all of the coating breadcrumbs, and bake them until the sausage is cooked through instead of deep-frying. I’ve tried this before with plain ol’ sausage, and it fell off while frying them.

I’m thinking I need to add an egg and a few crumbs to the sausage to work as a binder, sort of like meatloaf, and baking them means they won’t be handled as much. Opinions? Bueller?

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blurf

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Turkey, turkey… no turkey here.

Got nuthin’. Hope y’all don’t mind. Back to looking busy. I do have stuff I need to do, but it all involves Other People who aren’t available. Oh well, “lie back and think of the bill…”