Are you a Black Friday shopper?  Up at the crack of dawn to snag unimaginable bargains?  I’ve always loved the thrill of holiday shopping and on the day after Thanksgiving, especially.  Being out and about, we’d usually catch lunch or dinner someplace, especially if one of us was in from out of town and wanted to go to an old favorite haunt.  So, I have only recently discovered the joy of leftovers.  As a kid and teenager, I’d rather have pizza than leftovers, but as an adult, I understand the joy of turkey piled on leftover dinner rolls slathered with mayonnaise.  When it comes to leftovers, I gu...

Tags: soup, Thanksgiving, turkey ala king, leftovers, Black Friday, turkey

I'm happy to report that my Thanksgiving meal with the neighbors was a success. Shawn deep-fried the turkey in his backyard and the results were truly magnificent. Amy's mashed potatoes were literally swimming in butter--in a good way and, while my rolls weren't perfect looking, they tasted pretty darn good. For some reason I'm not able to post photos from home, so you'll have to wait until Wednesday for visual proof. I made the cheesecake and it, too turned out scrumptious. It wasn't as hard as I'd imagined. The water bath made me super nervous. I was worried that I hadn't wrapped the foil high enough around the sides of the spring form pan to keep the water out. My fear grew when I...

Tags: cheesecake, Thanksgiving, turkey

Last week, I came down with a bad cold--the kind that really slows you down. In fact, I stayed home from work one day since I didn't have enough energy to get dressed, much less drive to work. As I lay in bed, (I wasn't hungry at all, mind you) I thought about food because that's what I do. I would have loved to have had someone drop off a steaming pot of chicken noodle soup at my front door but I knew that wasn't going to happen. So, at around 2:00 pm in the afternoon, I finally got out of bed to heat up a can of ...

Tags: Chicken Noodle Soup, leftovers, Progresso, recipe, sick, turkey