For His Master's Veneration: Left Over Thanks

Every year too much turkey gets cooked! That means left-overs for a week. Here are a couple ideas for completely changing the tablescape of the holiday meal.

Please note, dressing does NOT KEEP. Throw out any remaining after 3-4 days. Sometimes green vegetables can be reheated, but often not because they turn into mush. However the turkey does not have to be limited to turkey sandwiches at midnight! Yes I know they are heavenly but remember it is the end of the month and the budget runs low after a big holiday meal!

Turkey Fried Rice

1-2 cups cooked turkey cut up

1 cup chopped onion

1 cup frozen peas (or any left-over)

2 large eggs stirred

½ cup white rice – cooked

3 Tbs low salt Soy Sauce.

Bring to a boil 1 cup water with ½ cup rice and 2 Tbs butter. Cover, reduce heat to a simmer and let cook for 15 minutes. While that cooks:

Cut up the turkey into small cubes. Chop the onion. Whip up the eggs, and dish out the cup of peas.

When rice is cooked, heat oil in a large skillet and add onions, stir occasionally as that starts to brown, about 5 minutes. Add the turkey and stir. Let that heat for 2 minutes and stir in the peas. Again let heat for about 4 minutes before adding the rice to skillet.

Spoon in the Soy Sauce and stir. After heat returns, about 4 minutes, pour in the stirred up eggs and cover. Let that sit for 2-3 minutes before attempting to stir eggs into the rice. This will let pieces of egg to cook and be part of the dish instead of disappearing into the mix.

If you have any of this rice left over:

Thankfully Stuffed Peppers

Using turkey makes this an even healthier stuffed pepper recipe. Green peppers stuffed with a rice mixture are already fairly healthy, but you can lighten them further by changing the meat you use. Change the overall taste by mixing in a topping of a cheese like Gruyere or Asiago.

Ingredients:

1 – 2 cups leftover Turkey Fried Rice

2-4 Green peppers

1 cup shredded Cheese mix: or Cheddar, Gruyere & Asiago

Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees, spray a 9 x 9 baking dish.

While that warms: heat water to par-boil the peppers. Cut the green peppers down the center lengthwise, and remove the seeds and white flesh and stem.

When water boils, drop in the pepper halves for 3 minutes and remove. Let drain on paper towels.

Place pepper halves in a baking dish, lined up like little boats

Spoon the turkey fried rice into each pepper half.

Carefully pour ½ cup water on the bottom of

the pan.

Cover tight with aluminum foil and bake at

350F for 35-40 minutes.

Uncover and place a tablespoon of the grated cheese on each then return to oven uncovered for an additional 10 - 15 minutes.

Try to experiment with your choice of cheese. Here we suggest a strong white like Gruyere or Asiago. In fact we found a mix already made up. Expand your cooking horizons beyond Kraft singles!