17.05.12

Well, the Thanksgiving holiday was fun, wasn’t it? Until you look around and see the dishes and mess to be cleaned up. Unless you're like me. I would proudly serve Thanksgiving dinner on paper plates and make my cousins load the dishwasher.

So now it’s Friday, “Black Friday” at that. You are tired, anxious to shop, still stuffed full from Thanksgiving dinner and your refrigerator is packed to the gills with leftover turkey and green bean casserole. Well, look at the positives: At least your house is no longer crammed with relatives taking all the good spots on the sofa and you don’t have to wait in line to use your own bathroom. The hard part is over for four whole weeks before the stress of Christmas day and nuttiness begins all over again. To those of you who have weeks of relatives in for the holiday season, you have my deepest sympathy.

The question now is what to do with all of those pesky leftovers before a few days go by and you find yourself trying to hunt down the weird smell in the refrigerator. We have all done it, waited, thinking that over the weekend we would have time to figure out how to make turkey sandwiches, stews and pot pies that will use up the bird that we spent two or three days preparing. We never do find the time, however, and what we end up with is a gelatinous turkey gravy mess that smells oddly of old socks and it goes in the trash, right along with the green bean casserole. Mood Food can fix leftover madness.

Source: Patch.com