Cooking For Bob

Yesterday he got his CJ's hamburger which I will admit was a special treat. Both dogs enjoyed theirs too. So, today being Sunday and since our Nascar race was last night in Dallas, it will be a lazy day. Bob saw a commercial about someone serving turkey for Easter. It did look good and I just happened to have some turkey frozen from Thanksgiving.  Yes, I know it was months ago but as I have become older I have become very thrifty. I freeze all leftovers. You should do the same. As long as you use good bags, remove all the air you can and lable you will be surprised how well it freezes. So, I dug out the turkey, let it sit for awhile to slightly thaw while I made the dressing. I also always have frozen cornbread on hand so dug that out. Sauted chopped onions and celery in lots of butter, broke the cornbread up in small pieces, added some crushed sage, salt and pepper, 2 eggs and about a cup of chicken stock. It looked a little gooey so broke pieces of white bread into it, perfect. About now, he is yelling from the recliner, "What about cranberries? Do you have any canned?"  Of course I don't canned cranberries but I did have about a cup of frozen ones again leftover from Thanksgiving. I boiled about 1/2 of water and 1/2 sugar and threw in the frozen berries and left them to boil softly for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, I buttered a 8 x 8 baking dish, dumped in the dressing, placed the turkey pieces on top, covered with foil and threw into the oven 350 for about an hour. The turkey was still a bit frozen.  Now I was thinking, this is a Thanksgiving left over dinner I must have wild rice. I put about 1/2 cup wild rice in 2 cups of cold water with 1 tsp of chicken stock granuals and brought to a boil. Needs to boil softly for about 45 min. I sauted more celery, chopped green onion and a huge amount of sliced mushrooms in another pan, set aside to dump into the rice when drained and ready to serve.  Just need to make a vegy and some gravy and away we go. I needed a dessert so quickly through together a banana cake with burned butter frosting as I had bananas going bad. Threw this into the same oven as the dressing and turkey and baked about 30 minutes. Have you ever made burned butter frosting? SO good. Just put your butter into a skillet cook over med heat til turns a beautiful brown.....pour into a pie tin and in frig til sets. Then mix it up with powdered sugar and a little cream.......the browned butter gives a wonderful nutty taste. I had placed my cranberries in the frig after they had boiled about 10 min. and an hour later they were perfect. So he was able to sit down to a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner in April! The entire dinner was almost completely produced with leftovers.  Now that there is just the two of us I usually have leftovers and it is so much fun to rediscover hidden treasures in the freezer that can give us a great meal like this one. He wanders back to the recliner for a bit of "shut eye".