Turkey & Gravy On Riced Cauliflower

What I cooked up with some left over Christmas turkey and some pan juices I hadn't done anything with yet.
For the holidays I had riced 2 cauliflower heads and kept in a baggie in fridge for quick access. So this meal cam together in a snap. Serves only 1 or two though.

Time in kitchen: 12 minutes

Ingredients:

• cooked Turkey, white or dark meat, it's your call, diced, 1- 1 1/2cups
• Pan juices, 3/4 cup approx
• Riced cauliflower, 3/4 cup cooked
• pinch salt
• butter or margarine as you prefer (to flavour cauliflower)
• basil, thyme, onion powder (OR just poulty seasoning) to taste
• Tapioca starch

1. Microwave cauliflower in a covered dish, remove and add butter/salt
2. In a small sauce pan heat pan juices to a boil, add spices
3. slowly add/sprinkle 1 tbls tapioca starch into boiling juices, cook until thickened 
4. add turkey to juices, stir to heat through and coat

Spoon turkey mixture onto cauliflower. So good!

Turkey & Riced Cauliflower Casserole

With mushrooms, onions and cheese!
Though if I'd had some I would have added Italian sausage and celery.

The plan was to check out "leftover turkey" recipes. I found this Easy Crockpot Breakfast Pie from PaleoOMG.com and I thought....7hrs wait time? LOL Can't I just make it right now? Eat it in 30?
And I don't have yams on hand. I do have riced cauliflower. But can I make something similar with riced cauliflower? (my primal newbie-ness is showing) So I Google cauliflower-rice-casserole and came up with a page full at Yummly.com 

Yes I can make something similar with riced cauliflower. I decide to wing it based loosely on my brief research scan of two recipes. HA
The ingredients amounts are eyeballed to my casserole dish (what can I fit in?)

Time in Kitchen: 15min

Ingredients:

• leftover Turkey, cubed/diced etc, 3 cups
• approx 4 cups riced cauliflower, cooked
• a package of mushrooms, cooked (optional, or use as much as you want)
• 1 onion (I used a large sweet onion because I prefer them)
• butter or fat for cooking mushrooms & onions and other veggies like celery if you have it
• shredded cheese (couple of handfuls for topping, cheddar or moz mix)

Liquids & spice: (about 2 cups all in)

• 4-6 eggs (you make the call)
• milk or a mix of cream and milk
• 2 tsp basil
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1-2 tsp thyme as you prefer
• 1/4 -1/2 tsp salt

preheat oven 350
(I cooked this in my toaster oven on convection bake setting, at 350, for 35 minutes, until cheese was golden!)

1. Cook riced cauliflower in a covered bowl in microwave (4minutes veg setting)
2. Toss fat & onions, mushrooms etc into skillet to cook as you prefer soft or crisp
3. While everything is cooking crack your eggs into med bowl, add spices and milk/cream to make about 2 cups liquid.
4. Spoon cauliflower into casserole dish, mix in turkey, and veggies, pour eggs/milk over all and mix gently. Pat flat with back of spoon. Spread Cheese over top. - optionally, could probably mix the cheese all in instead of layered on top)

So, everything is practically precooked and I just need to cook the eggs and melt the cheese.
Best served warm.

Introduction of the Wannabe

Hello Visitor! *dusting off welcome mat*

My name is Col, I am an artist, married, with two sons. I love food, am a fan of all the food groups. But taking the time to construct a meal is not high on my priority list, also vaguely... unappealing. Therefore, it has been a long time practice to purchase mainly pre-packaged food on the bi-weekly shopping trips.
I am overweight. Surprise! not. at. all.
I was also  pretty clueless once about  insulin-spiking sugars in wheat flour.

Did you know that two slices of whole wheat bread (yes, whole grain bread with all that fiber) cause a bigger and faster blood sugar spike (glycemic index 72) than a spoonful of table sugar (glycemic index 59)? - from EatNakedNow.com

Wheat now worse than sugar? Brutal! 

Have you ever visited a grocery store and tried to find prepackaged foods that do not contain wheat? Try it. I guarantee it will freak you out. I'm still freaked. And suspicious to tell truth. Why is wheat in everything? Why is there wheat in ice-cream? 

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Fearing the sweet poisons will kill me sooner than hoped, and after a dollop and dash of research, it became clear that I would have to eat more "real" food, unprocessed, sugar-free, zero pre-packaged (unless the label said gluten free/wheat free and preferably used unrefined sugars). Both Primal and Paleo lifestyles fit the prescription. But EGADS! I was so out of touch with real food and the kitchen is definitely not where I want to live. 

So . . . what can you expect from this site? Some references and resources on Primal and Paleo topics? Sure.
Hasty, half-baked and/or sketchy kitchen escapades and recipes? Definitely.