New Yankee?

[Sandbar]

Reading a few of your posts indicates you have some experience in the kitchen. I am guessing you are a chef or are in the restaurant businees to some level. Just curious.

Since turkey day is right around the corner. What are some recipes you guys and gals use for the leftovers?

[Leaky]

Here's one that I like

Chicken or Turkey ala King - A quick, simple meal

½ cup diced onion

½ cup diced celery

1 package sliced fresh mushrooms

8 oz frozen peas

3 tbls red cooking wine

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 1/2 teaspoons chicken bouillon powder

1 1/2 cups milk

1 1/4 cups hot water

2-3 tbls sour cream

2-3 tbls creamy horseradish sauce

4 cooked, boneless chicken breast halves, chopped

or

2 ½ - 3 cups cooked turkey

4 ounces chopped pimento

1 Cook onion and celery in butter till soft. Add mushrooms over medium heat for 5 minutes.

Deglaze pan with 3 tbls wine. Remove from heat.

2 Blend in flour, salt, and pepper. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is bubbly.

Remover from heat

3 Stir in instant bouillon, milk, water, sour cream, and horseradish.. Heat to boiling, stirring

constantly. Boil for 1 minute

4 Stir in chicken (turkey) and pimiento. Heat through.

Serve over Pillsbury Grands Biscuits.

Serves 4

[Big Julie]

Here are a couple I got online from my good buddy Alton Brown of "Good Eats":

Bird to the Last Drop

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

2 quarts vegetable stock

1 turkey carcass

1 (10-ounce) box frozen mixed vegetables

½ cup rice

2 cups cooked turkey, cubed

1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning

2 teaspoons dried thyme

Salt and pepper, to taste

Combine the vegetable stock and the turkey carcass in a large soup pot over low heat and bring to a simmer. Cover and simmer for 1 hour.

Add the remaining ingredients to the stock. Cover and simmer for an additional 20 minutes.

Remove the bones before serving.

Yield: 6 servings

Food Network: Recipes - Turkey Re-Hash

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

8 ounces breakfast sausage

½ onion, chopped

½ jalapeno, minced

½ cup red peppers, chopped

1 ½ cups red potatoes, cubed and cooked

1 ½ cups cooked black beans

2 cups Corn Bread Pudding, cubed

1 to 2 cups cooked turkey, cubed

Dash cayenne pepper

Salt and pepper, to taste

Add the sausage to a heavy skillet over medium high heat and cook until the sausage begins to render some of its fat, about 2 to 3 minutes.

Add the onions, jalapeno and peppers to the sausage and cook until soft and translucent.

Add the potatoes to the skillet and increase the heat to high. Cook until the potatoes have browned lightly.

Add the black beans, pudding, and turkey and stir occasionally.

Cook until the hash is thoroughly heated.

Season with cayenne, salt, and pepper.

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

[New Yankee]

Hey Sandbar, thanks for the compliment, but I'm just an old insurance claims guy . I do enjoy cooking and likely am more of a gourmand (not a gourmet - a gourmand is fond of good eating - often to excess, as opposed to a gourmet, who is a connoisseur of fine food and drink ).

Was a bachelor for a number of years and got tired of eating poor cooking so I soaked up all I could from books and TV. Love the art of butchering meat and took a couple of courses in college in animal science which gave me some background in that(gosh that was some time ago - Barry Saunders was a sophomore at OK State when I left, and Garth Brooks was playing in the beer joints...both are now retired!), but I'd seriously screw up cutting a beef or hog by myself! I know enough to cut some primal cuts and which ones taste (to me) the best in particular cooking methods. Would love to run a bar and grill, but suspect I'd spend too much time in the bar and then mess up what ever came off the grill!

That was likely far more than you wanted to know, and as for your question, I'm really not found of leftovers. LOL!

Family just returned from your great State visiting Camp Snoopy in the Mall. Our relatives are down South so we spent turkey day doing eight hours of stomach twisting rides and corralling the kids! Haven't quite got my appetite back yet... Hope everyone's was safe and enjoyable, we saw quite a few wrecks this morning leaving town in the snow storm.