THANKSGIVING LEFT-OVERS ROLLED UP

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I got the idea from my interview with The Washington Post (see clip on right side). I had fun up there making crepes for a stroy on MH which ran a week ago Weds and justifiably needed a Thanksgiving angle. The reporter Bonnie had a great idea to make the crepes and use them for Thanksgiving leftovers the next day which seemed great for the story. But, once I confronted the practical need in my home today–I realized it was a really good idea. I made a batch of crepes, stacked them on a plate and covered with plastic and left it on the counter along with Tupperwar containers of sliced turkey, cranberry, sauce, gravy and slies of cheese. Each awaking human rolled their crepes as preferred, placed them on a plate and microwaved for 1 minute. The cheese does the job of holding it all together once melted and creating a creamy texture. I loved it so much!


I went for a walk, did some shopping and returned and all the crepes were gone, gone, gone. It was a good plan–one I’ll repeat and a good change from the expected sandwiches we usually have. One other thing I thought about during the meal this year is that I like my cranberry to taste cranberryee, my pumpkin to taste pumpkinee, my apple pie to taste apple-ee. Too many recipes have us mask these incredible natural flavors with a thoughtless jumble of spices. But, if you use restraint, they can just support instead of mask the original flavors.

Now for some some left-over apple-ee apple pie.
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2 Comments
  • Ashley
    November 28, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Great idea to let everyone assemble their own hodge podge of leftovers in a crepe. Yesterday I made turkey pot pie crepes with our leftovers.

  • LUCINDA SCALA QUINN
    December 1, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Hey Ashley–Thanks for checking in. Love ANY leftover ideas.LSQ

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