This Old Chef

THE use... THE comfort food... using the remains of the turkey... probably my personal fave... because when all is said and done, I'm a Midwesterner who's Irish on all sides (and I do mean ALL sides).

Hash.

So this version…

These two recipes are De-lightful to make, De-licious to eat, and De-lovely to serve... with your favorite turkey or ham or chicken!

Time Machine:  Chicken Crêpes

I can't really explain it...

OK... I could say that some of the roast…

If it makes you feel better, you can call it "Shepherd's Pie with Turkey," but either way, my after-Thanksgiving take on this comfort food favorite will have you gobbling it down!

So...  The Remains were gloriously arrayed before me...

I…

No one finishes the Thanksgiving meal.  There are always containers of... remaining food.

What to do?  Dump everything in a pot and call it soup?  YUCK.

Instead of thinking of The L Word as some "used" food you need to…

Remembering a wonderful Thanksgiving from a few years ago...

I loved this part!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

In honor of the Founding Father who wanted the turkey to be declared our national symbol because the eagle was a bird "not of good…

Here's a great memory of my very first time roasting a spatchcocked turkey, and my case for spatchcocking your Thanksgiving turkey...  Norman Rockwell was a painter, not a cook!

I know it looks like road kill but...

It's happened...  I've…

I'm proud to say that this is one of those recipes that's among This Old Chef's greatest hits!  Your family will love it, I promise!

Dressing...  Yes, I'm from Michigan and we called it "dressing" whether on the inside or…

I cannot believe it's already Thanksgiving!  2019!

My elderly parents warned me about time speeding up but, like every child, I didn't believe them.

Guess what.  They win.

So here are two earlier This Old Chef posts, one that…

Over the years, I've been blessed to work alongside and learn from some of America's foremost chefs.  Whenever I do, I try to take some time afterwards to think... what did I learn?

So it should be with celebrating Thanksgiving…

He wanted chicken.

But we’re waist deep in the September Tomato Glut!

I had an idea!!!

I sautéed a minced onion...
I added 3 chopped medium tomatoes...
I added a chopped Havasu pepper, half a chopped zucchini, and half a…

SHRIMP SALE!  (Part 2)

Well, last night was the wildly successful Thai Shrimp Risotto.  Since I had set myself an awfully high bar, I wanted to travel somewhere NOT in Asia or Italy for tonight's dinner.

I had just seen…

SHRIMP SALE!

As we have previously established, these are words that get me very excited.

And these babies were the right size and in beautiful shape AND wild caught.  So we got a pound.  That’s two dinners in a row…