RECIPE FOR LEFTOVER TURKEY and THANKFUL FOR SO MUCH

Beauty everywhere that God has left His calling card

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NEW NOTE: I just want to say "thank you" to the girls who wrote and commented on my blog. I am so thankful for you and for your sweet comments and knowing you have so much in common with ME. Thank you sincerely.

 

Mary Lou's Turkey or Chicken Divan

The beauty of this great dish my family loves is that it is great with leftover turkey. I serve this over brown rice but they love it over white rice too. Your choice.

Purchase three good quality frozen chopped broccoli,  (10 oz each)

Take one package of fresh mushrooms (little bin) and slice them up. Pour in some olive oil in a pan and saute them. Yum.

• 3 or 4 cups Turkey left overs OR 6 chicken breast halves, boneless, skinless (I splurge and buy range free
• water
• 1 &1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
•  2   cans   cream of chicken soup, reduced fat
• 1 & 1/2 cup mayonnaise
•  4   teaspoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 1 can chopped and sliced water chestnuts
• 1& 1/2 teaspoon melted butter
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds 
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Cook broccoli in microwave. 

Place chicken breasts in a large pan on stove; cover with water and add 1/4 t. salt.   Bring to a boil;  turn heat to medium low and cook 25 minutes until it is not pink in the middle.

Grease a 9 x 13 inch casserole . 
  Drain and  Place broccoli into casserole; Next put in the mushrooms you cooked. Cut chicken into small bite size chunks.top broccoli and mushrooms with chicken pieces. Combine soup, mayonnaise,curry powder. worstershire, melted butter and lemon juice. Pour over chicken Mix. Sprinkle with cheese and  sliced almonds. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for  45  to 60 minutes.
Serves 8 to 10

Serve with Hot rice, whipped sweet potatoes, fruit salad and hot bread____________________________________________

 

Now back to thoughts of being Thankful

I am thankful for someone to love

I am thankful for the beauty of Fall Harvest

I am thankful for bright colors

I am thankful for drawings that make me laugh

I am thankful for childhood memories

I am thankful for Christmas decorations -when it is time for Christmas decorations

I am thankful to know that sometimes LESS is MORE

I am thankful for ears that can hear beautiful sounds

I am thankful for quilts that have sentiments and beauty

I am thankful to be able to smile at people and to have someone smile at me. Makes me feel wonderful.

I am thankful for friends who take my story quilt workshops and tell about themselves and who they love.

I am thankful for good hot coffee

I am thankful for things that make me giggle!

I am thankful that my glass is half full!

I am glad that I live in a free country with people who are willing to fight to keep that freedom, thank you to our military

I am thankful that my children, Grandchildren and dear friends are pretty inside first and outside second-Beautiful!

I am thankful that I can put my family into my quilts and they will be left with my memories to last for many years.

I am thankful that I can share FUN cows in this book I did with Mel McFarland and I am thankful for her too.

I am thankful for angels and that I can make pillows with them pictured and positive quotes for people who need a lift!

I am thankful for a clean studio thanks to dear friends who helped me out of the mess I was in! The sewing machins is now set up and buzzing. Thankful for electricity!

I am thankful for my yearly retreat which may be twice this year if I can get the space rented! And I am thankful for Miss Tina who flies up from LA to cook for us!

I am really thankful for the two men in my life. My husband Mark and my son Jason. Both are the nicest men in the world.

And just so I can end this because it could go on forever, I am thankful for peligrino and cute socks!

TODAY......

I made chicken divan, salad and whipped sweet potatoes for my daughters and daughter in law for lunch. Nice to spend time together.

I want to say that I think it is a total shame that they are keeping stores open on Thanksgiving day. That seems so selfish for those shop owners and after all one day will not make a huge difference on cash for them.

Isn't it OK to have ONE day set aside to give Thanks for all that we have here in the US and to be grateful for it? What do we teach our children when we put shopping ahead of family time and being thankful for simple things as well as complicated things.

 A house (shelter), food on our table in in our cupboard, warm shoes or boots, mittens, water that runs when we turn it on, heat that comes on when we are chilly, beds, blankets, electricity, a car or a bike for transportation, friends that we love and love us back, medicine in our cabinets, a telephone, and so many many other things. This is a game I play with my Grandchildren and I would challenge anyone you know to name thirty things that are thankful for that they had not really thought about.

I am thankful for those people who DO NOT SHOP that day, and for people who keep their business's closed. Retail has ruined Christmas and Easter and what it is about, I don't want Thanksgiving ruined too. Holidays are not about THINGS.

They are about much more and what really counts in life. Think about it.

And I am thankful for YOU. Thank you for visiting me here.