Thanksgiving Leftovers

Are all of your Thanksgiving leftovers gone?  We finished ours off except for some cranberry jello goodness.  We also have some extra dressing in the freezer that never got cooked.  Thanksgiving was a success.  We celebrated with linner on Thanksgiving day and dinner the day after. 

Our spread.  Perhaps we need to work on our food photography.

Now, if you aren't burned out on turkey and cranberry type food, you have got to try this sandwich.  Publix, our local grocery store, has a Turkey Cranberry holiday sub. I was a little hesitant to try, but it was awesome.  I have tried to repeat at home. Not quite as good as Publix, but good enough. If you don't have a Publix, you can easily copycat! They even list the kind of turkey and cheese they use from the deli if you want to get serious about replicating.

Ingredients:
A loaf of some good bread. I think I bought Italian.
Sliced turkey
Sliced Gruyere cheese
Cranberry sauce. I used my leftover cranberry jello goodness. I am sure cranberry from a can or jar would be just fine too.
2 slices of bacon
A sprinkle of oregano

Instructions:
Assemble and eat. Try it hot. Try it cold. Just try it!

Our Thanksgiving Plans

This will be our first Thanksgiving away from our family that we actually try to celebrate Thanksgiving.   Wowsa!  Last year, we drove to San Diego and ended up eating at Jack in the Box (only place that was open that would be able to handle a grumpy 3 month old).   Depressing!

We are going to pair up with the Gilliam Family and try to pull of our own feast.   The Gilliam's are taking care of dessert and the turkey. We are doing the sides.  Here is hoping we can have a low stress and delicious meal!

For right now, these are the sides I am planning on.  This might change 10 times before the actual day.

Dressing
We always called it dressing.  Stuffing.  Whatever.  My family's side does half cornbread/half regular bread.  Hunter's family does all cornbread I believe.  I am going to try the half and half following PW's recipe as a guide, but changing out the seasonings.

Potatoes
My family never did mashed potatoes...always sweet potatoes.  I am going to try and fill up a casserole dish with one side candied sweet potatoes and one side buttery mashed potatoes.  Hope it is not a flop!  The blend in the middle might be the bestest.

Green Beans
Hunter doesn't like the green bean casserole.  Something about the mushrooms.  Going with plain green beans.  I will decide the day of how to cook them.  In a pot with bacon?  On a roasting pan with shallots?  In a skillet with butter and slivered almonds??

Rolls
Whatever the store has.  I have no winning roll recipe.  I should try to make my own, but I have bad luck with bread.  If I get an amazing burst of motivation, I will make some dough in the bread maker and turn it into rolls.

Cranberry Jello (Karen's Recipe) - I love this stuff!
1 lg raspberry jello
1 lg can crushed pineapple drained
1 lg can whole cranberry sauce
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Use drained juice from pineapple and add water to make 1.5 cups juice. Bring juice to a boil and pour over jello. Add pineapple, cran sauce, and pecans.  Refrigerate!

Cranberry Sangria
I taste tested this recipe and I really like it!

What is left?  Pickles and olives? Cheese ball? That is what we always eat as an appetizer.  We call that fine dining.  Send me your ideas!