Here are some extra recipes to use those Christmas dinner leftovers and other holiday leftovers and also some dips to serve at your New Year’s get together.
This is an unexpected canape and a handy little finger food:
Roll about 1 teaspoon full your favorite cream cheese dip into a ball. Press it between two walnut halves. Lay on a platter to serve.
Save dry cereal odds and ends to add to your Chex mix when you make it.
Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting it in the fridge. It will keep much longer.
Cheesy Mashed Potatoes Recipe (For Using Leftover Mashed Potatoes)
3-4 cups mashed potatoes 4 oz. cream cheese, softened in the microwave 1 clove of garlic or 1 tsp. garlic powder, to taste 1 cup Mexican cheese blend, shredded
Mix potatoes, cream cheese and garlic. Place in a 1 quart greased baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese. Place under the broiler for 3-4 minutes until cheese is melted.
Eggnog Pound Cake Recipe
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine 2/3 cup sliced almonds
Grease a Bundt or tube pan with butter and press almonds into the sides and bottom.
Prelheat oven to 350°. Beat everything together until smooth. Pour into a prepared pan. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
David’s Favorite Dip
1 jar Kraft Old English cheese spread 1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup nuts, chopped
Mix ingredients. Roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap. Serve with chips.
Most of the time we just mix it and serve in a bowl without wrapping it.
Mix everything. Chill. If you want to make a ball or log then don’t mix in the almonds. Instead, make your cheese ball or log and then roll it in the almonds.
*To toast your almonds, lay them on foil or a pan and heat in a 400° oven until brown. Watch carefully.
Serve with chips.
This dip tastes like some very expensive ones that you can buy pre-made. it is a perfect holiday recipe! Be sure to use dried herbs and not powdered herbs. Dried herbs are the bigger flakes that haven’t been finely ground.
Herb Dip
1 clove garlic, crushed or garlic powder 2 (8 oz.) pkgs. cream cheese, softened 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine 1 tsp. dried oregano 1/4 tsp. each of dried basil, dill weed, marjoram, thyme, pepper
Blend all ingredients together. This will keep in the refrigerator for 1 week or in the freezer for 3 months.
Here’s a recipe for you fruit lovers! It’s a great recipe to make to use all of those fruit plate Christmas leftovers!
Cinnamon Sour Cream
1/4 cup sour cream 2 tsp. sugar 1/8 tsp. cinnamon Dash of nutmeg
Mix and serve with fresh fruit. You can use this as a fruit salad dressing. too. If you decide to use it as a dressing, you can use canned fruit and garnish with the coconut and/or toasted chopped almonds or nuts.
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Leftovers stored in the fridge should be eaten within three days. When freezing Christmas meats or stuffing, wrap them in heavy freezer wrap and put them in a container suitable for your freezer.
As a general guideline, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recommends eating or freezing turkey and other leftovers within three to four days. For Thanksgiving, that means you should eat or freeze by Monday.
Greens, Black-Eyed Peas, Cornbread, and Ham | Photo by Meredith. You may not be superstitious, but why tempt fate? Dig into these traditional lucky foods on New Year's Day to attract abundance and prosperity in the year ahead.
Don't throw them out. Whether you're eating at home or out at a restaurant, don't let leftover edible food go to waste in the trash or compost bin. ...
Make them tomorrow's lunch. Saving leftovers is a quick way to pack a low-effort lunch. ...
Leftover cooked meats can be incorporated into sandwiches, salads, or pasta dishes, while meat scraps can be #repurposed into flavorful stews or tacos. Leftover rice and pasta can be transformed into flavorful fried rice or baked pasta dishes.
Leftovers can be kept for 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator. After that, the risk of food poisoning goes up. If you don't think you'll be able to eat leftovers within four days, freeze them right away.
Some Christmas puddings, made with dried fruit in the traditional way, are fine to be eaten as much as two years after they were made. "Bear in mind if the pudding is alcohol-free, of course, it will last a good while with the sugar content, but it will not last as long without alcohol to preserve it," stresses Juliet.
When you're ready to reheat it, make sure you bring it up to 70°C and keep it at this temperature for at least two minutes to be sure any bacteria that could make you ill are killed. If you're reheating turkey to 75°C, bacteria will be killed after 30 seconds and to 80°C after just six seconds.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ham is good for three to five days in the refrigerator after it is cooked. If you need more time to use up those leftovers, ham will last up to two months in the freezer. The USDA also recommends wrapping up leftovers well.
In short? Once you open a package of ham, or if it comes open — like if it was sliced at the deli counter— you can safely eat your leftovers for up to five days. In addition to these dates, it's always best to stick to the use-by date printed on the ham's package.
In the South, that means a meal of collard greens, hoppin' John, black-eyed peas, cornbread, and pot likker soup. For an auspicious year, we've rounded up some of our favorite traditional New Year's Day recipes.
Greens, pork, and cornbread, as well as black-eyed peas, cowpeas, or beans, are some of the typical symbolic foods served on New Year's Day. When planning your dinner menu, add the Southern foods that some say bring good luck and avoid those that may do just the opposite in the new year.
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