What Oh What to do with Leftovers

So my favorite way to use up all my left over is to make what I call deep fried Thanksgiving.

Here is how its done!!!!

Take your Favorite left overs and mix them together!

I take:
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Corn Pudding
Turkey
Left over Rolls

I mix potatoes,gravy,corn pudding,turkey(shred), flour and 1 egg. I mix them all really well and then roll them into medium sized balls. I then take and grind the left over rolls, I place them into a dish, I roll the balls of Thanksgiving goodness in the roll crumbs and then deep fry for about 4 to 5 m,in or until completely golden brown.I use my left over Horseradish cranberry sauce to dip in!

OMG these are so good and a great way to use up all those left overs!
ENJOY

Thanksgiving 2011

I love Thanksgiving, I love getting together with my family and my friends, I love sharing a great meal!

This is what I made this year for our families Thanksgiving

2 Turkey Breast both with Orange Marmalade Black Pepper Butter, and basted with fresh squeezed orange juice
 Corn Pudding
Brussels Sprouts with bacon and walnuts
Broccoli Casserole
Vermont and English White cheddar smashed potatoes( cooked in heavy cream and then smashed in the same cooking cream)
Corn
amazing Gravy with the orange turkey drippings(this was so good you would do shot of this)
Fresh Cranberry sauce
Fresh Horseradish cranberry sauce

we also had Ham with Crack gravy,  Hawaiian rolls, and homemade honey butter!

for dessert we had my Sister wonderful pumpkin cake balls( my daughters favy), my mom2 made a pumpkin tart with a ginger snap crust, we had traditional pumpkin pie, and my little brother and his wife made this AMAZING Carmel apple cake!

We had the most amazing dinner,company and day!

Adventures in Boxed meals

My son, who is blessed to have a home cooked meal almost everyday of the week,decided that he wanted to try Hamburger Helper (YIKES),

He says to me "mom why don't we ever eat Hamburger Helper? "I say because Mommy doesn't like it" and  He says " well all my friends eat it". So I buy a box of Hamburger Helper(reluctantly) and tonight I made it for him.

It was as awful as I remembered it, my daughter took one bite and said she wasn't eating that, but the boys they ate it. My oldest the asker of this meal eats his entire serving and says "mom, that wasn't bad, but I don't wanna eat it all the time" Me (Huge sigh of relief)

Its nights like tonight that I feel great about the food I feed my children and I feel good knowing that they will take my cooking over the boxed meals any days.

As a side note, I know that there are families out there that make these meals, and this is nothing against you, I believe that making dinner no matter from scratch or from box,that sitting down with your family is the most important thing to do.

But for me I'm off the hook on cooking the boxed meals again (at least for a while)

Blogging

It has been a while since I have blogged and I didn't realize that anyone even reads this silly thing.
To my surprise there are people who like to know what I feed my Family everyday.

I started this blog so that I could write about my family and the wonderful food that I am so blessed to be able to cook for them, I have neglect this blog for way too long!!!


Thank you to all of the people who actually care about me, my family and the food I cook!