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Offline songbird

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« on: December 01, 2013, 04:54:54 PM »
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  • I have 3 pints of cranberry salsa.  Do you have any ideas for using it?  I have only 2 ideas, serving it with turkey breast and rice.  And the other is what I call a a chicken surprise.  I make a turkey or chicken mixture: 2 cups chopped meat with a can of chicken or mushroom soup and chopped onions sauteed.  Put half in the bottom of a casserole dish and then flour tortillas and salsa on top, then another repeat that layer and tortillas and meat mixture and tortillas a salsa and finish as you wish. I like putting shredded cheese in the casserole on top of the salsa layers.  Some like putting a crunchy topping on this casserole.  I thought I would try the cranberry salsa, instead of regular salsa.  


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    « Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 05:14:00 PM »
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  • Sounds good to me!

    I'd be using it in a sweet, by adding cream and possible a setting agent and serve with a chocolate pudding.

    I'm notorious in my family for making up  things with leftovers, then it's "Mum, make that thing again , you know the one you made blah, blah, blah" and I have no memory or idea of how I did it.

    One-offs often go down well, but never to be repeated.
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    « Reply #2 on: December 01, 2013, 05:26:33 PM »
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  • Cracker, cream cheese and a dollop of salsa.

    Mix with softened goat cheese to make a cheese ball.


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    « Reply #3 on: December 01, 2013, 06:15:45 PM »
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  • Cranberrry salsa sounds good 2 ways:

    1) Serve as salsa on the side when you make eggs with feta for breakfast or Friday
    2) Turkey burritos/tacos - Turkey breast, lettuce, avocado, cranberry salsa, sprinkle with feta

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    « Reply #4 on: December 01, 2013, 07:18:46 PM »
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  • I love leftover challenges, btw.

    Tomorrow, we are getting a side of beef, so I've had to make meals with what we have. Odds and ends that I froze, plus the fresh vegetables on hand. Actually, it was really fun.

    Maybe a little soy sauce, orange juice, and some ginger and you might even have a good marinade for steak on your hands.


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    « Reply #5 on: December 01, 2013, 07:23:40 PM »
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  • This thread is making me hungry!! I didn't have a thanksgiving meal this year. Usually my favorite part of thanksgiving is making yummy dishes from leftovers, especially turkey. But I don't have any ideas about cranberry leftovers. I'm enjoying these other ladies creative ideas though!
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    « Reply #6 on: December 01, 2013, 07:51:02 PM »
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  • Well, I certainly enjoy you helping me out on this one!  Thank you for your ideas.  My husband and I go to a Sprouts on Sat. morn and rummage through their dempsty dumpsters.  We find throw away items in jars, and packaged items and we have a good time.  Then we have to decide what to do with them.  We give to our traditional church every week.  So, we are just new at this.  We are careful about what we pick and how we handle things.  If we can cook it, pare it and bake it or is still good in the containers, we go for it.  I have made apple/pear crisp, cucuмber salad, and we got organic lettuce still in the sealed plastic containers with 2 days to go on due dates.  We have found can goods and even pie, still in the containers and good to go.  Wild, uh!  

    Once I ran across a container of a cream cheese with cinnamon and great tasting.  On a spur of a moment, I made a bundt cake that calls for cinnamon brown sugar in the center, so I tried this and what I had left of brown sugar and wow!  it was a hit!  I also put cinnamon in the batter and I called it a snicker doodle cake.  It really was good!  When I went back to our grocery store for more there was no more.  They told me that it is only around in the christmas season.  I can't wait to try it again.

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    « Reply #7 on: December 01, 2013, 07:54:04 PM »
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  • Oh, now I remember.  The bundt cake asked for sour cream and I was short on it, and put that cinnamon and cream cheese in  it and what I had left of the sour cream.  See, a new thing, and it happens when you have to try another way!


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    « Reply #8 on: December 02, 2013, 02:18:52 PM »
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  • I forgot an ingredient for the chicken surprise casserole.  Add some cheese sauce of any kind, even from velvetta and make your own.