Cooking and Foodie

 This meal is a way to use your left over side dish from Thanksgiving. I also added the left over cranberry/orange/nut salad to my rice before stuffing my halved acorn squash.  Wild Rice gives it that Fall taste and the little crunch. If you like to scrape out the seeds before hand you can, however the smaller ones tend to sink in the middle. You can remedy this by simply pushing gently in the middle squash side up to make the scooped out hole easier to fill. I used infused herbs province Olive Oil. I get mine  from Orodioilva.com Ingredients 3 Acorn Squash Olive Oil 4 green onions sliced 3/4 pound Italian sausage 2 Tbsp butter 1 cup sliced mushrooms 3 cloves garlic minced 1tsp ea orégano and thyme 1 cup wild rice 2 cups chicken broth left over cranberry salad (recipe at bottom) Slice Acorn Squash in half tip to tip, you can either leave seeds in to help with not collapsing the squash when baking, or scoop out before baking. Pierce outside skin a couple of times.Drizzle O...

Were you just thinking, wow Thanksgiving is over and what am I going to do with all this leftover ham.  I have the answer for you.  Split Pea Soup,  you use the bone from that delicious baked ham you just had for Thanksgiving and this soup freezes really  well. Ingredients 1 bag split peas 2 quarts water 1 tsp pepper  1 large white onion chopped Bone from Ham with some ham left on 1  Tbsp fresh oregano or dried oregano Garlic (optional) or garlic powder 2 cups diced carrots 1 1/2 cups diced celery Soak peas in water for 2 hours Drain Add ham bone, onion, pepper and oregano.  Simmer for 1 hour and check water, if needed add more so that its able to simmer for 1/2 more with carrots and celery. Remove bone and chop ham to be able to add bacon.  Simmer for 1/2 with the vegetables, test and if soft add the diced ham and stir.  This is all, it's now ready to eat.

The crust is made from a cake mix in a box.  Can you believe how easy this is. You just mix the cake mix with butter and an egg, viola crust for your bars. I dollop the cake mixture in the corners of the lined dish and then start pressing it together so that is is even If you want to put more marshmallows on you can, just remember this gets pretty sweet.  You can choose the nut you would like in your dessert, especially if someone is allergic to a certain type.  I would stay away from peanuts as they don't go with cranberries.  Choose walnuts, pecans, or almonds, you can use a few and just sprinkle or put a lot on so you can't see the layer underneath.   You can sprinkle the coconut as well.  I used only 1/4 cup of brown sugar to add to the egg whites, to make it less sweet.  You can use up to a 1/2 cup of brown sugar. Ingredients White cake mix 1/2 cup butter, melted 1 egg 1 (14-15 oz)can whole berry cranberry sauce, opened Zest from 1 small orange 1 ...