Saturday Night Turkey “Surprise” Treats
Posted: November 27, 2010 Filed under: Food, open thread | Tags: Cajun Thanksgiving leftovers, Emeril, Gumbo, Jambalaya, sweet potato 63 CommentsStill got leftover bird? 
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Try some of these Cajun recipes then bring them on because we know you have them!!!
Turkey Jambalaya from Epicurious
Here’s some of my things to do with leftover sweet potatoes, if you got ’em!
Sweet Potato Biscuits
1 cup flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 cup cooked, mashed sweet potatoes
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
3 tablespoons butter (soft)
1/3 cup milk
Sift the flour salt and baking powder in one bowl. Mix the sugar and sweet potatoes in a second bowl. Add the butter and beat the mixture until it’s smooth. Add the dry ingredients to the sweet potato mixture and add the milk. Blend well.
Roll out the dough on a floured board. Cut with a biscuit cutter. Place in a buttered baking pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. I serve this with some whipped honey butter.
Du Pain Patate (Sweet Potato Bread)
2 cups grated raw sweet potatoes
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter melted
1 tsp cloves.
1 tsp salt.
2 unbeaten eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup cane sugar syrup (yes, CANE SUGAR syrup … it’s a Cajun thing and we make it down here)
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 Tbsp. orange zest.
Put the grated raw potatoes in a bowl. Ad one egg at a time and beat it real well until it’s mixed and kind of fluffy. Add the orange rind. Mix it some more. Add the sugar and beat it. Add the syrup and the melted butter. Mix. Then Mix the spices, salt and flour together then add that to the rest of the mixture. And, right, mix it again.
Okay, this is the fun part. You’re going to transfer that to a well-greased iron skillet. Bake it at 300 to 325 for an hour. You can tell it’s done when the bread pulls away from the sides. Cool it about 10 minutes before you get it out of the skillet. This is going to make a really sticky type potato bread and if you put fresh cream on top, you’ll think you just about tasted the best thing ever. Remove it in wedges with a spatula while it’s still hot.
This one is a really old recipe from a friend’s family and I had to beg for it … enjoy!!!
* (It’s a thanksgiving turkey that’s been through a TSA scan, that’s all!!!)
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Ugh. What’s with the picture?
It’s in keeping with the TSA scans … my caption about Chertoff being a turkey and to scan this didn’t take … and won’t take, oh well
That occurred to me but I didn’t want to say if for fear I was wrong.
I only had a few leftover desserts and have already devoured them.
The picture makes me uncomfortable.
I ate out so no leftovers here. It’s just a turkey with a tan.
L.O.L.!
Branjor, it’s just a roasted turkey.
Thank you for a great laugh. That picture is hilarious. I don’t bake turkeys, but if I ever do, I’ll find a way to get a bra and bikini impressions on it. Lol!
I just saw that and it reminded me of those TSA scans. I dunno … I thought it was funny.
It is funny, it is not like it was a turkey with a thong and pasties swing on a stripper pole, right? Although, I bet that would be something to see…
No turkey leftovers this side of the border. 😦
So, here’s an offering for the flu-cold stricken:
1 Big-ass mug
Some really strong tea
At least 2 tbsp. honey
1/4 wedge lemon
A couple slices of ginger
2 shots of rum (Southern Comfort seems to work too)
Heat mug; fill with tea; add honey (shoot some down your throat while it’s in hand); squeeze and drop lemon wedge into mug; add suggested (freehand) shots of liquor; stir in ginger.
Drink while hot…all of it. Eat ginger left at bottom.
Best served with a box of tissue or toilet paper roll.
And, here’s a little something to make sure your heart keeps beating:
(Was looking for George Carlin’s “worker bee” rant. so far, no luck. but here’s his “American dream” from 2008{?):
(It, should, imo, be entitled “the Global peon dream”…it’s the same everywhere.)
I was just talking to my sister. She and my brother-in-law are down for the count and sound like a pair of foghorns. I’ll have to pass it on!!!
I hope no-one turns my mom in for this, but as small children gathered in large numbers for family Christmases, this was the “turn to” remedy for all of us that caught colds – it was always a majority number.
In other words, I was raised on this remedy. 🙂 (Pretty sure the booze shots were carefully measured, tho. heh.)
I NEVER buy commercial remedies for colds. Ever.
Hope your sis and her hub recover quickly!
(lol @ “foghorns”)
The American dream = the global peon dream.
Very perceptive.
That link sucks…no audio for some reason.
Try:
I love this one!!
Ok, I’m making that bread. It looks fantastic!! And I’m trying to get off bread again…curses!
at least the sweet potato part is healthy and cane syrup is healthier than most processed sugars
Bread is life…resistance is futile. 🙂
just, my dad used to give us a tablespoon of rye whiskey and sugar when we were sick. I’d be running a temp of 104 and out would come the tablespoon of whiskey and sugar. I don’t know whether it ever lowered my temp, but after drinking that one tablespoon, I didn’t care, so your mom’s not the only one. Love George Carlin – funny, that clip is at least 10 years old – and it’s truer today than it was then.
🙂 High-5, HT!
The sleepy bit is the *best* (and probably key) part of the remedy.
(Not sure about the Carlin dateline….this was from his last tour, I think. He did do the bit much earlier too. He’s timeless, as you say. )
When I was young, my father would give me coke syrup if I wasn’t feeling well. The “real” coke syrup was available in pharmacies back in the ’50s. To this day, if I don’t feel well, I automatically open a can of CocaCola – it’s the only time I drink the stuff. It must be psychological as Coke doesn’t have the active ingredient in it…
My pediatrician would actually bring it to my house when I was a kid and had tummy troubles. Sheesh, that seems surreal these days!!!
I’m going to try it with kamut flour which bakes pretty well and is a good substitute. If it wasn’t raining here I would run out and get the ingredients now. But I think I will have to order the cane syrup. Can leftovers be made into bread pudding? I was dreaming about that today too.
yup, it certainly could!!! and I’d check the sweetener and the syrup section of your grocery store. You never know these days what they could have.
I think it’s going to keep me up tonight…
Thanks for all these recipes. We ate all the turkey so I can’t make gumbo, but I think it’s such a shame that we only really make a turkey once a year. I’m trying to convince my boyfriend, who is the pickiest eater on the planet, to help me eat through one more turkey after the new year. I love it and it makes so many good leftovers. Making turkey stock right now. Planning on making BB’s clam chowder when he’s gone home for the holiday. More for me!
OT: The United States rejected talks with WikiLeaks over its planned release of confidential US documents late on Saturday, saying the whistle-blower website was holding them in violation of US law.
The US State Department set out its position in a letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his lawyer that was released to the media.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/us-rejects-talks-with-wikileaks-20101128-18c57.html
and this:
North Korea has deployed SA-2 surface-to-air missiles to its west coast near the Yellow Sea border with South Korea as U.S.-led naval drills got underway in a show of force against the North’s deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island earlier last week, government sources said Sunday.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2010/11/28/91/0200000000AEN20101128000700315F.HTML
Ugh…
Just when you think the world can’t get any more unstable.
there’s an issue with that link at the bottom. I can’t find any other news on that elsewhere… my norton utilities says its a malsite.
oh, just saw a mention on English Al Jazeera
I read that Hillary had to talk to China. That must’ve been tough.
yup, especially after all the talking she’s had to do to those foreign ministers about the wikileaks cables
Yes, it has been a busy week for Hillary. I can’t imagine the pressure she must be under, now with all this crap going on.
Just ‘cuz it’s Saturday nite…
How conveeeenient that Mr. President has a sore mouf.
There is a copy of the letter that the State Dept released here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45626.html
also a very solemn picture of Hillary…
It’s amazing the work she’s had to do recently. She’ll burn out at this rate.
Isn’t it strange that Hillary and the rest of the leaders are in the White House dealing with all the issues about North and South Korea while Obama is playing basketball? Will this guy ever come to work?
“Meanwhile, North Korea mounted surface-to-air SA-2 missiles on launch pads on a west coast base and aimed at South Koreean fighter jets flying near the western sea border, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified South Korean government source.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101128/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_clash
this is mentioned in the link above…if you cannot open the yonhapnews link.
I tell you, it is like the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Here I am, writing down stories about my grandmother so my kids have something to remember her by, and I am thinking…wtf, will we all be living in caves, surviving on roaches? I know that is a bit overkill, but geez.
I have a recipe for armadillo gumbo. We’ve got tons of those around here.
Oh yes armadillos, we have opossums galore, in fact there is a town near me in NC that has a “Opossum Drop” at New Years…just like the ball in NYC, only with a opossum…and speaking of squirrels, my husband and son shoot them a grill em, it is disgusting! But what do you expect in the red neck hills of Georgia…
They cook anything down here so nothing surprises me.
Armadillos are very much edible, but I understand they are greasy. I guess I’d eat armadillo if I was very, very hungry and that’s the only food available. Certain villages in Central Americas eat armadillos. No thanks.
The husband figures this enhanced saber rattling is courtesy the “deviant” and “excited” son.
Here is my take on N.Korea.
First, the military in that country have a siege mentality, but to some degree, it’s valid. Right now, there’s a change of leadership, and those are vulnerable times. I think that the new leader is sending a message to S.Korea and the U.S. that N.Korea is ready to fight, and not to see the new leader as weak.
Sweet Potato Bread recipe is going into the recipe box.
The link below is the Geo. Carlin American Dream with transcript – very timely. I miss George, he made me laugh and I never remember him being ugly to any one. I have to have transcripts with any videos or closed captioning. This was transcribed by a fan who said -This legendary rant is even better when read.
‘Its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.’
Read more: http://shoqvalue.com/george-carlin-on-the-american-dream-with-transcript
shoqvalue.com/george-carlin-on-the-american-dream-with-transcript
thanx for that link, Boo.
That turkey pic reminds me of a photo posted by joaniebone (back during 2008) of her T-Day turkey. A bit of creative wrapping with aluminum foil…
I bought sweet potatoes the other day just to make sweet-potato-and-pineapple cake. Think I’ll try baking it in a cast-iron skillet after reading your recipe up above.
It’s the old fashioned way to do it but it gives it a great texture because of how well the iron heats.
re Sweet Potatoes left over…
for lazy asses such as myself:
Cut the things into wedges or “coins”; toss in olive oil and cracked pepper; bake – and toss a couple of times – at about 400 for about 45 min. (til super crispy); serve with a dollop of tzitziki or sour cream.
You’ll never eat conventional fries again.
Mmmmm!
Uh…. what’s tzitziki?
It’s that cucumber sauce they serve with gyros.
http://greekfood.about.com/od/dipsspreadspures1/r/Tzatziki.htm
I made it *once*…doesn’t really work without using hard-to-find Greek yogurt.
Is cheaper and easier to buy.
To-die-for as a side to your regular chicken and rice dinner, too.
If anyone has a Trader Joes’ around them, they sell both Greek yogurt and labne which is even thicker and better. Sometimes you will see the label, Mediterranean Cheese yogurt.
Grate cucumber – salt and drain it for an hour. Then rinse and squeeze out.
Add crushed garlic, lemon, olive oil, pepper (and salt depending on how salty the yogurt is). It should be very thick and not runny. Beats the store-bought by a mile. You could also strain a whole milk yogurt if you’re up for the effort. Very good with any grilled meat.
You are so right about the home-made being superior.
Have you made/tried spanakopitas – the ultimate tzitziki companion?
I can’t cook worth shit, but those I work!
It was the ONLY way I could get the daughter to eat spinach.
I can see I’m going to have to post a recipe to make yogurt soon :).
Yum!
Please!!!
I love sweet potato fries … I sprinkle Tony Cachere’s on them and a little lime juice.
Team Lime Juice On Just ‘Bout Everything!
Gonna have to google “Tony Cachere’s”….
Speaking of food, I saw this on the BBC News and just had to link it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11834184
We had a bunch of squirrels that moved back here after Katrina but the feral cats of gotten them. Or my Cajun neighbors … not really certain which now that you put that up
Yup, notice that guy is from Georgia….it is so dang true! Squirrel the other “white” meat. Actually, it is more like a reddish brown color flesh. We have little squirrel pelts nailed to the trees around here, husband likes to eat them. Yuk!
What does it taste like?