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Monday 15 March 2010

LEFTOVER TURKEY RECIPES

LEFTOVER TURKEY RECIPES>>>


We’ve all heard the “…Oh no! Not that again…” when faced with more undistinguished meals for dinner. These suggestions can add a little spice to tired palates and help you spend less time in the kitchen.

• Turkey Hash with Sweet Potatoes and Onion.

Use three large peeled and chopped sweet potatoes
One large yellow or sweet onion minced
Two cups of chopped turkey (white or dark meat)
Two tablespoons of canola or light olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Sauté sweet potatoes in oil until fork tender (takes approximately 30 – 40 minutes)
Add onions after 20 minutes
Add turkey after 25 minutes

Serve with tossed green salad of your choice
Serves 4 (One of our family favorites)

• Turkey Alfredo with Linguini

Two cups shredded cooked turkey
One half box linguini
One cup heavy cream
One quarter cup of butter
One quarter teaspoon ground nutmeg
One cup grated parmesan cheese

Prepare linguini according to package directions
In one quart sauce pan add heavy cream, butter and nutmeg
Cook over low heat until butter is completely melted
Add parmesan cheese and stir until well blended
Add turkey and toss with Alfredo sauce
Serve over hot linguini with garlic bread (variation: add one cup cooked peas to sauce before serving)

• Broccoli/Corn/Turkey Casserole

One cup butter
One half package egg noodles cooked according to package directions
One and half cups plain, unseasoned bread crumbs
One sixteen ounce package frozen chopped broccoli, thawed and drained
One fifteen ounce canned cream style corn
Two cups chopped cooked turkey
Two eggs beaten
One half small onion chopped
One half teaspoon salt
One eighth teaspoon pepper

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Melt one half of the butter in 3 quart sauce pan until it sizzles (reserve the other half for bread crumb topping). Add broccoli, corn, turkey, onion, cooked noodles, salt and pepper. Mix well. Remove from heat and add beaten eggs. Spoon mixture into two quart casserole dish and mix remaining butter and bread crumbs. Spoon bread crumb mixture over top.

Bake forty to forty five minutes or until knife inserted in middle of casserole comes out clean. Let stand five to ten minutes before serving.

Serve with soup of your choice (tomato soup works well) and biscuits.

• Stuffed Zucchini w/turkey mushrooms and onion in tomato sauce

Two large fresh zucchini halved and seeds removed to form hollow cavities One cup finely chopped cooked turkey (ground cooked turkey may be used) One quarter sweet onion minced One half package (four ounces) sliced baby portabella mushrooms Two tablespoons balsamic vinegar Two tablespoons extra virgin olive oil One third cup chicken stock One sixteen ounce can of your favorite Italian tomato sauce (not spaghetti sauce) One and one half cups unseasoned bread crumbs
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter shallow baking pan.
In medium size skillet heat oil over medium heat until it sizzles. Add mushrooms and onions, sauté until onions are soft stirring occasionally so the mushrooms brown evenly. Add balsamic vinegar and coat thoroughly. Add turkey and chicken stock. Cover and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer (stirring frequently) approximately eight to ten minutes or until liquid is reduced to a glaze. Remove from heat. Place zucchini in baking pan and fill hollow cavities with mushroom and turkey mixture. Pour tomato sauce over stuffed zucchini. Top zucchini with bread crumbs. Bake thirty five to forty five minutes or until zucchini is fork tender.
Serve on bed of white rice with refrigerator dough soft bread sticks baked according to package directions.

HappyHolidays!

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Thursday 11 March 2010

Food Fat List of Bad Fat Good Fat

Food Fat List of Bad Fat Good Fat

We Love food fat! And the scientific data is clear that the fats on this bad fat good fat food fat list all affect your heart in one way or another.

They offer you either a happy healthy heart or heart failure and death.

Food fat is no longer just about being "fattening." Although there's still plenty of bad fat good fat food fat confusion, scientists now realize that there are some extremely healthy good fats as well as extremely unhealthy bad fats. And some of the good fats can even help you lose weight.

Bad Fat Good Fat Food Fat List

If you're having trouble digesting some of the bad fat good fat food fat details, you're certainly not alone. And it's understandable why.

After all, too much saturated fat or any trans fat in your diet is clearly a disaster waiting to happen. On the other hand, the essential fatty acids are "essential" for optimum physical, mental and emotional health. To clear up the confusion, here's your bad fat good fat food fat list of fat facts.

1
Trans fatty acids are the real bad fat boys. Since trans fats have been shown to raise artery-clogging LDL (bad) cholesterol and cause breast cancer, they should be totally eliminated from your diet.

Trans fat is created when processed vegetable oils are hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated. Food sources include candy, cakes, pies, cookies, pastries, crackers, biscuits, cereals, deep fried foods, fatty meat from beef and sheep, soups, margarine and some salad dressings.

2
Saturated fats should make up no more than about 10% of your calorie intake. Even though saturated fats add flavor to food and can be beneficial in small amounts, in large quantities saturated fat has been shown to clog arteries and cause other cardiovascular health problems.

Saturated fats are mainly in animal foods, such as beef, pork, lamb, butter, cheese, cream, ice cream and other full-fat and low-fat dairy products. It's also found in tropical palm and coconut oils.

3
Polyunsaturated oils are the source of essential fatty acids. They used to be ranked highest on the food fat list. But now that food fat is better understood, polyunsaturated fats are known to be a mixed bag.

The reason is clear. Most people get way too much non-nutritious polyunsaturated omega 6 fat in the form of highly refined vegetable oils. This throws off their optimum balance of omega 3 to omega 6 oils.

4
It's best to use monosaturated olive oil for salads and cooking and get your essential fatty acids from whole food sources. These include 100% whole wheat, brown rice and other whole grains, nuts, seeds and beans, especially soybeans, sunflower seeds and walnuts.

Monounsaturated fat helps protect against heart disease by lowering LDL (bad cholesterol) and raising HDL (good cholesterol). The best source is extra virgin olive oil. Other good sources include olives, almonds, peanuts, pecans, hazelnuts, avocados and pumpkin and sesame seeds.

5
Omega 3 with EPA and DHA is considered to be in a class by itself – even though it's technically polyunsaturated. This is because of the exceptional omega 3 EPA and DHA health benefits, which include reducing your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some kinds of cancers, arthritis, depression and protection against many other painful and serious diseases.

The best sources of omega 3 with EPA and DHA are salmon, mackerel, herring, tuna, trout, anchovies and good quality omega 3 fish oil capsules. (Note: plant sources of omega 3 do NOT have EPA and DHA.)

Remember that all fats, bad or good, have 9 calories per gram. So even though omega 3 fish oil and olive oil are great for your heart and bacon fat is terrible, each fat gram adds the same amount of calories.

John.

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Sunday 7 March 2010

Thought of you with love today...

My Niece "Kerry" posted this verse on my Facebook - What can I say...

Thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.
I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.

I think of you in silence, I often speak your name.
All I have are memories and a picture in a frame.

Your memory is a keepsake, with which I'll never part.

God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart.

repost if you have a loved one in Heaven

John.

Godbless Millie.

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Links

The Links on the Left hand side of the page that say "Heart"
lead to Videos on Youtube showing Heart related issues.
The one that says Heart - "Angioplasty and Stent Insertion"
is what my Wife "Millie" had. But she had 8 installed during
the same operation which took 13 1/2 hours.

She did really good at first.
During the "Procedure" as they call it - she suffered a Spinal Stroke
and a Minor Heart attack.
She was in ICU and then the HDU and then on to a Surgical ward and
to a Stroke Unit (ward).

She faught really good, doing as many excercises as she could bear
Because the Stroke had disabled her walking or even standing up by
herself. The physiotherapists used to come in and help her to stand
and told me what I could do to help (only after I pestered them to let
me help!)
Millie did walk a little - using a "Zimmer Frame" with the help of two
therapists and myself (walking behind her pushing her wheelchair in
case she had to sit down or until she couldn't walk anymore and had to
sit down).

During all this time in Hospital she was taking a lot of Medication.
She had Pneumonia twice - they had to drain her lungs - some bed sores
Swollen legs - so much so that she couldn't lift them (a build up of
fluid because she was unable to move them around because of the Stroke).
Low blood pressure, high temperature, unable to go on the toilet properly.
Dry skin - itchy skin - not being able to eat or drink properly - just
lots of problems - but she was determined to leave the hospital!

But it wasn't to be.

Millie spent (3) THREE MONTHS in hospital laying on her back! and trying
to fight back - I know I couldn't have gone through what she went through,
never. She was really really brave and strong.
That night - 29 Dec 09 - I'd left the hospital at 8.00pm when visiting
time was over along with my Sister - and received a phone call at home
from the Sister on Millies ward at around 9.10pm saying that my Wife had
passed away. If only I'd stayed at the hospital another hour or so - I could
have been with her at the end.


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Thank you, John.