Veggie Turkey Casseroli, with cheese!

Get your Food Processor Freak On!

It's a veggie massacre. Seriously, my kitchen looked like a cauliflower bomb went off
and some innocent onions got hit.

None of my family could tell I used cauliflower...never mind a whole one!
Good for breakfast too. Though I seem to prefer all the dishes I've made with cauliflower warmed over straight out of the fridge. (Extra step...booo-hisss!)


Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups diced cooked turkey leftovers
1 cauliflower
1/2 bunch celery
3 pieces sun-dried tomatoes in oil
2 sweet onions
tblsp basil
butter
1/2 cup shredded cheddar and 3/4 cup mozzarella
5 eggs
1/2 cup sourcream

Make it work:

FPFO 1> Scour the last bit of your holiday turkey for usable meat. 

I got about 2 1/2 cups of diced off of mine. Toss into FP and pulse until more shredded than diced.
Set aside in bowl.

FPFO 2> Rice up a head of cauliflower and stick it in the microwave, covered, 

for about 5min on veggie setting.

FPFO 3> Chop the dickens out of two sweet onions, until you think to yourself 

"shoot, that almost looks puree."

Scoop onion into hot frying pan with melted butter.Keep an eye on that! 

Use your third hand to stir.

FPFO 4> Add 3 sun-dried tomato (in oil) sections and 1/2 a bunch of 

a whole celery stalk (no leafy bits) and chop the dickens out of those too...just like the onions. 

Add tblsp or other significant amount of Basil

And the celery/sd tomatoes to the onions and keep cooking...it all turns somewhat golden yellow.

Take cauliflower out of microwave, add in a tblsp or better of butter,

Mix into the cauliflower the onion/celery/sd tomatoes,

Mix in the slightly shredded turkey.

Spread into casserole dish.

In a med bowl crack 5 eggs, 

Add 1/2 cup sour cream,

Add half a quarter teaspoon of vanilla (yes I did)

whisk together,

Add 1/2 cup shredded old cheddar cheese

Mix together and then pour evenly over rice/turkey/onion etc

gently mix this in

Top with a blend of mozerella and cheddar cheese

Bake (in your toaster oven if you can) at 375 for 45 minutes 

or until top is golden/starting to brown at edges.

Sunbutter Banana on Chia Chia (Bread)

NO BRAINER Day

2 slices Chia Chia Bread 

Sunbutter

small Banana

Chia Chia Bread: LOVE this bread from Silver Hills: made from high fibre chia seeds, gluten free, biodegradeable bag, 97% organic, vegan, kosher, no dairy,  no oil, no additives, no artificial preservatives, no eggs, or "genetically modified anything."

Sunbutter: Sunflower seed spread, gluten free, nut free

Pan Fried Eggplant Pizza

I have no idea if anyone in their right mind would try this,

 but this is what happened in my kitchen a couple nights ago:

I took a skillet and added margarine (any fat will do ) to a hot pan. 

Added some 1/4 inch thick sliced eggplant disks.

Added some slices of pepperoni around the disks to cook

Darkly browned one side of eggplant and flipped.

Spooned pizza sauce onto each disk and spread with back of spoon.

Sprinkled generously grated cheese on each. (Never mind the spill over into hot pan)

Moved the pepperoni onto each.

Added a few green olives.

Added more grated cheese.

Sprinkled basil

FLIPPED!

Yes, I did. I flipped those pizzas cheese side down.

Maybe  I didn't have to. But I did.

It took some muscle and a metal spatula to get those bad boys out of the pan, but 

the crusty cheese crunch was yummy!

(uh...yes it's quite normal in this case to re-spread the toppings after traumatic pan removal, but hey...it's a one pan meal -- that counts for something!)

Ingredients:

I large eggplant. (I had almost half left over and I made 9 pizzas from it)

shredded cheese (your preference)

Toppings (Your preference)

Basil

Nerve

The Brunch Muffin

I had two recipes in front of me, both from Mark'sDailyApple.com:

Breakfast Spinach Frittata and  Omelette Muffins

I had the ingredients for both, but decided, heck, I'm just going to make my own variation as suggested in the Omelette Muffin recipe. 

to make 12 muffins:

Preheat oven 350 (I used my toaster oven on convection bake)

Ingredients:

• 8 eggs
• 1/4 shredded cheddar
• 6 balls of chopped frozen spinach (defrosted in microwave)
• tsp basil
• pinch salt & pepper
• 1/3 of a red pepper diced, and 2 slices red onion finely chopped and cooked in coconut ghee, placed on paper towel to cool
• 6 slices bacon, reduced salt, cooked, cooled
• feta cheese

Make it work:

1. Line muffin pan with paper liners.
2. Pre cook peppers and onions, after done and in same pan, cook bacon.
3. Mix the egg, spinach, spices, and cheddar cheese in bowl. 
4. Add in cooled red pepper and red onion.
5. Spoon two tbls of this mixture into each cup, then divide the rest between (fills your paper cup about 1/2 way)
6. Top with crumbled feta cheese
7. Tear 1/2 slice bacon per muffin and top

Bake for 18-20 minutes, let cool

Super tasty! Of course, you do have to be a fan of the flavours listed in the ingredients.  

Create your own flavour mix!