Friday Foodie Fix- Thanksgiving Inspired

Friday Foodie Fix

Friday Foodie Fix

This week’s secret ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix is not a single ingredient but a theme, Thanksgiving inspired.  What great food did you have for Thanksgiving?  What are you creating with the leftovers?  Do you just reheat the same meal or do you create a totally new dish?

I like to do both.  My favorite dish from the Thanksgiving meal is the mashed potatoes.  I like to make them into pancakes for breakfast.  A turkey shepherds pie would be great way to combine the leftovers and top it off with those mashed potatoes.

This year I did all of my cooking on Wednesday, packed it into a cooler and headed to my parents house on Thanksgiving day.  All my mom had to do was set the table.  I actually really liked cooking it on one day and eating it the next day.  It was a lot more enjoyable for me for many reasons:  everything didn’t have to be done at the same time so I could cook it in any order I wanted, I cleaned up as I cooked because I wasn’t on the clock so no big mess at the end or after eating a big meal, and I wasn’t exhausted when I sat down to eat.  Something to consider for future Thanksgivings!

I packed everything into a couple of coolers so I could reheat it once there.  We had Fire Roasted Tomato Soup and Deviled Eggs for lunch.  Then for dinner keeping it simple we had the turkey, which I had the butcher spatchcock for me, mashed potatoes, stuffing muffins, gravy and a massaged kale salad with mango and pomegranate seeds.  Dessert was Pumpkin Pudding with a nice dollop of Coconut Milk Whipped Cream and my newest creation which I will share soon, Captain Jack’s Chocolate Rum Cookies.

It was plenty to eat and clean up was a breeze.  First time I’ve ever been able to say that on Thanksgiving!

So what did you eat on Thanksgiving and has it inspired you to create something new?

Please share your recipes via Mr. Linky and if you don’t have a blog please leave them in the comments section.

Guidelines:

  • Share your recipe title along with your name and blog name. example- Diane@ The WHOLE Gang-Crispy Sage.
  • Link to your individual post, not your homepage and then link back to this post. This completes the circle and allows your readers to find more recipes using the secret ingredient.
  • Include your name and recipe title. Please link back to this post in your recipe post.
  • Please follow these guidelines so I don’t have to delete your link. Every week some get deleted.

Next week’s secret ingredient is…..Cabbage!

December 10th ……. Ham

December 17th ……. Yams

December 24th ……. Readers choice

December 31st …… Wine

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