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Foodie Friday: How Sweet It Is
by Guest Writer, Valerie Whitmore I love leftovers for breakfast. In fact, that's what I eat most mornings here while sitting at my desk. If you offered me a pile of warm pancakes slathered in butter and maple syrup - or - some cold leftover lasagna, I'd always choose the lasagna. Always.
The same goes for holiday leftovers.
Most of us have our favorite uses for leftover turkey: casseroles, soups, sandwiches, etc. In fact, when I started looking around for blogs to choose for this week's Foodie Friday, all I found were recipes centered around leftover turkey.
What about the sides?
Sometimes the leftover sides like mashed potatoes or stuffing made it into a shepherd's pie or on a sandwich, but on most of the blogs I looked at it was still about the turkey.
I decided my mission was to find a blog featuring a recipe that wasn't about the turkey. And that's how I found How Sweet It Is.
I instantly knew I'd like Jessica, the brains behind the blog, because of her "about me" statement that says "Vegetables and I are the best of frenemies." Exactly.
The blog is mostly about recipes and cooking but she adds a lot of fun personal posts as well. It's all really easy to navigate and has a professional yet comfortable feel about it in the new design that was launched this fall. The range of recipes vary from broiled feta with caramelized cinnamon pears to crockpot coconut hot chocolate to homemade chicken cheesesteaks.
The recipe I found was a post tucked away from last year's holiday season for a breakfast hash using up leftover mashed potatoes and stuffing
Of course, this meant I needed to make both mashed potatoes and stuffing in order to have leftovers to test the recipe.
The Mashed Potatoes
I used this recipe on CDK for fried onion mashed potatoes. It looked like a nice, easy recipe and frankly, that was all I wanted. What I actually got - was amazing! I am not sure why, but these turned out to be some of the best mashed potatoes I've ever had. I do love caramelized onions, so that might have (probably) played a big part in it.
The Stuffing
For the stuffing, I used this recipe for Mama Losasso's Hot Italian Sausage Stuffing. I don't know who Mama Losasso is but she makes some darned good stuffing. Again I had trouble not consuming it all before making the leftover breakfast hash. Also, I have no idea why I didn't put it in a bowl to take a proper photo. I think I was too excited to dig in.
Now, back to the leftovers: After resisting the urge to just eat all the mashed potatoes and make another batch for today's feature, I made them into the potato pancakes as directed by adding flour and forming into patties and cooking in a skillet. The recipe can be found here. I forgot to add the cheese. Oops. They were still wonderful. They were golden brown on the outside and soft in the middle
The potato pancakes are put into a skillet with spacing around them which is filled in with leftover stuffing. The recipe says to flip the stuffing and potato pancakes so they can cook on the other side. I didn't do that. The potato pancakes were already hot because I had just made them and the stuffing heated up quickly. I was too afraid that the potato pancakes would fall apart and the nice presentation would be upset.
I cooked the eggs in another pan as directed and gently placed them on top of the potatoes with a few snips of green onion.
Now that's my kind of breakfast.
Get the recipe: Day After Thanksgiving Breakfast Hash With Cheddar Mashed Potato Pancakes
Visit How Sweet It Is: https://www.howsweeteats.com/
Like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/howsweeteats
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/howsweetblog
The same goes for holiday leftovers.
Most of us have our favorite uses for leftover turkey: casseroles, soups, sandwiches, etc. In fact, when I started looking around for blogs to choose for this week's Foodie Friday, all I found were recipes centered around leftover turkey.
What about the sides?
Sometimes the leftover sides like mashed potatoes or stuffing made it into a shepherd's pie or on a sandwich, but on most of the blogs I looked at it was still about the turkey.
I decided my mission was to find a blog featuring a recipe that wasn't about the turkey. And that's how I found How Sweet It Is.
I instantly knew I'd like Jessica, the brains behind the blog, because of her "about me" statement that says "Vegetables and I are the best of frenemies." Exactly.
The blog is mostly about recipes and cooking but she adds a lot of fun personal posts as well. It's all really easy to navigate and has a professional yet comfortable feel about it in the new design that was launched this fall. The range of recipes vary from broiled feta with caramelized cinnamon pears to crockpot coconut hot chocolate to homemade chicken cheesesteaks.
The recipe I found was a post tucked away from last year's holiday season for a breakfast hash using up leftover mashed potatoes and stuffing
Of course, this meant I needed to make both mashed potatoes and stuffing in order to have leftovers to test the recipe.
The Mashed Potatoes
I used this recipe on CDK for fried onion mashed potatoes. It looked like a nice, easy recipe and frankly, that was all I wanted. What I actually got - was amazing! I am not sure why, but these turned out to be some of the best mashed potatoes I've ever had. I do love caramelized onions, so that might have (probably) played a big part in it.
The Stuffing
For the stuffing, I used this recipe for Mama Losasso's Hot Italian Sausage Stuffing. I don't know who Mama Losasso is but she makes some darned good stuffing. Again I had trouble not consuming it all before making the leftover breakfast hash. Also, I have no idea why I didn't put it in a bowl to take a proper photo. I think I was too excited to dig in.
Now, back to the leftovers: After resisting the urge to just eat all the mashed potatoes and make another batch for today's feature, I made them into the potato pancakes as directed by adding flour and forming into patties and cooking in a skillet. The recipe can be found here. I forgot to add the cheese. Oops. They were still wonderful. They were golden brown on the outside and soft in the middle
The potato pancakes are put into a skillet with spacing around them which is filled in with leftover stuffing. The recipe says to flip the stuffing and potato pancakes so they can cook on the other side. I didn't do that. The potato pancakes were already hot because I had just made them and the stuffing heated up quickly. I was too afraid that the potato pancakes would fall apart and the nice presentation would be upset.
I cooked the eggs in another pan as directed and gently placed them on top of the potatoes with a few snips of green onion.
Now that's my kind of breakfast.
Get the recipe: Day After Thanksgiving Breakfast Hash With Cheddar Mashed Potato Pancakes
Visit How Sweet It Is: https://www.howsweeteats.com/
Like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/howsweeteats
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/howsweetblog