Get Creative with the Leftover Turkey

What to do with all the leftover turkey meat? I'm quite sure this question has crossed the minds of many folks over the past day or so as the lure of Thanksgiving leftovers faded away and the reality of the Monday morning routine comes ever closer. While I have no answers for the impending dread of getting up at 6am after a long, relaxing, and fun-filled holiday weekend, I can offer a yummy option for all that leftover turkey meat!

I made turkey salad sandwiches for dinner tonight, using homemade mayo (you absolutely must use homemade mayo; store bought mayo is just plain yucky in comparison). The turkey salad was served on slices of Berlin Bakery's fantastic sprouted spelt bread.

http://www.berlinnaturalbakery.com/acatalog/bread.html

I slathered organic cranberry jelly on one slice of warmed bread and turkey salad on the other .. bringing them together to make the sandwich. The sandwich was served with a salad of organic baby greens on the side. This meal that is both yummy and light on the stomach; a guarantee of a good night's sleep so you can easily hit the floor running at 6am !

Turkey Salad

4 cups cooked, chopped free range turkey meat

1 cup homemade mayo (see recipe below)

1 cup finely chopped organic celery

3 TBL organic, sweet pickle relish (I use Tree of Life brand ... http://www.treeoflife.com/)

1 Tsp sea salt

1 tsp pepper

1 TBL dried cilantro

pinch cayenne pepper

Combine all ingredients in a large glass bowl. Freeze what you will not use in 2-3 days.

Homemade Mayo

1 free range egg *

1 free range egg yolk *

1 tsp organic Dijon mustard (I use Tree of Life brand ... http://www.treeoflife.com/)

1 TBL lemon juice

generous pinch of sea salt

3/4 cup expeller pressed sunflower oil (I use Hain .. http://www.hainpurefoods.com/)

1/4 cup organic extra virgin olive oil

* wash eggs in warm, soapy water and then dry before cracking

In your food processor, combine egg, egg yolk, dijon mustard, lemon juice, and salt. Pulse the food processor once or twice. Slowly drizzle in the sunflower oil and then the olive oil while continuously pulsing the food processor. That's all there is to it! You now have raw, enzyme rich mayo that is so much better tasting than anything you can buy at the store! It will last 2 weeks in the refrigerator.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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How to Make Soup Stock From Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey

Don't throw out those turkey bones from Thanksgiving! Check out the 5 minute video below where I show you how to use those bones to make a couple of gallons of turkey stock which you can then use to make healthy soups through the end of the year!

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Now THIS is Pumpkin Pie!

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's cheap food. I admit it. I'm a dedicated Food Snob. Perhaps it's my French heritage. Perhaps it is all those years I actually ate cheap food and suffered the inevitable consequences of dodgy health and a crabby disposition much of the time. I remember some years back when the French farmers were picketing McDonalds for bringing cheap food to their land. I was cheering so loudly, I'm sure they heard me across the Atlantic. You GO Froggies!

Truth be told, I would rather go hungry than actually stoop to eating fast food - even in a pinch. I've found through painful experience, that it is infinitely better to drink some water, chew some gum or whatever I have to do to get to a decent restaurant or, better yet, simply go home and get something quality to eat than succumb to the temptation of the drive through only to suffer the inevitable stomach ache, headache or worse a few hours later. I've found very few places that beat my own kitchen for quality, lip smacking, "wow, that was amazing" food. It's just not worth it to settle for less. The really ironic and highly amusing part of my Food Snob confession is that I couldn't even boil an egg when I first got married. My husband was the chef; he was, and still is, an excellent cook. He taught me the basics, and when the kids came along, I determined to learn everything the best that I could so that my kids would really learn to appreciate, and love quality food. It is, after all, one of the finer things of life!

That being said, with Thanksgiving right around the corner, you can imagine my dismay at all the processed versions of the classic dishes that abound in the grocery store. Most folks just don't seem to get the concept of "homemade" anymore. A can of Libby's pumpkin pie filling is not a satisfactory stand in for a fresh from the field, seasonal pumpkin, baked in your own oven, and pureed to the perfect degree of smoothness in your food processor. Most standard pumpkin pie recipes also call for a can of evaporated milk. What is that stuff anyway? Brace yourselves. Evaporated milk, "also known as dehydrated milk, is a shelf-stable canned milk product with about 60% of the water removed from fresh milk" (Wikipedia). Evaporated milk is even more processed than pasteurized, homogenized milk, if that's possible. Evaporated milk is processed at such a high temperature that the final product is sterilized to the point where the canned version is shelf stable for months or even years. Could one take canned, evaporated milk, add back the appropriate amount of water, add yogurt cultures and ferment into yogurt? Absolutely not! The stuff is DEAD. It is a nutritionless, highly allergenic version of the fresh from the cow variety. Avoiding it in your Thanksgiving pumpkin pie recipe would be a favor to both you and your guests to say the least.

You're probably now thinking that making a decent quality pumpkin pie would take at least a week and cost the equivalent of what you're spending on the turkey. Not at all! Quality can always be convenient and taste fantastic too. Try this recipe on for size:

Now THIS is Pumpkin Pie!

2 cups of baked, pureed, seasonal pumpkin (check your farmer's markets, pumpkin is a Fall crop and you can get one fresh from the field if you just ask. Any variety will do. Really. Don't get hung up on the color or type of pumpkin. They all work fine in my experience.)

** The best way to bake a pumpkin is to first, cut it in half, then remove the seeds and bake, skin side up, in a glass pan filled with 1 inch of filtered water at 400F for one hour). Scoop out the thoroughly softened pumpkin and puree in a food processor. Do this a few days in advance and store in the refrigerator, so making the pie on Thanksgiving morning is a 5 minute snap. Make enough so that you already have enough pumpkin puree for Christmas too. Freeze in 1 pint or quart containers for easy thawing/baking later.

2/3 cup evaporated cane sugar (sucanat or rapadura work great. 1/3 - 1/2 cup sugar and 4-6 drops of stevia may be substituted to make a lower sugar recipe)

2 tsp ground organic cinnamon (use organic spices as non-organic ones are typically irradiated)

1/2 tsp ground organic ginger

1 tsp ground organic cloves

1 tsp ground organic nutmeg

1 tsp ground organic allspice

3 eggs

9 oz organic, whole coconut milk (this is a wonderful, healthy stand-in for evaporated milk. Your pie will NOT taste coconut-y at all. Use only the thick white portion of the coconut milk and not the coconut water.)

Whip together pumpkin puree, sugar, coconut milk and spices in a large, glass bowl with a whisk. Add lightly beaten eggs. Mix until just combined. Pour into 2 standard pie crust shells. Bake in a 375 oven for about 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool. Serve with real whipped cream or enjoy on it's own.

I'm actually enjoying a slice of my own pumpkin pie right now as I'm typing this. I made a couple of pies a few days early as my kids couldn't wait until Thanksgiving to enjoy it. They begged me to make some right after the pumpkin was baked. Guess I'll have to make a couple more pies in a few days as these two won't last until Thursday, that's for certain!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Curried Lentil Soup

I made a very large pot of curried lentil soup for dinner tonight. This soup freezes very well in one quart containers, so make a lot and freeze several quarts for quick meals on busy days in the hectic holiday weeks to come. This soup is also extremely economical to make. I made a gallon for $3-$4 using all organic ingredients. For those of you who are Dr. Weston A. Price fans, lentils were one of his favorite legumes because of their very high phosphorous content. Dr. Price loved phosphorus; it is the second most plentiful mineral in the body. It plays a role in maintaining the body's acid/alkaline balance, something many folks struggle with today given the high levels of inflammatory diseases which trace their roots to over-acidity in the body.

Curried Lentil Soup

3 large organic onions, peeled and chopped (leeks may be substituted)

4 organic carrots , peeled and chopped

2 TBL butter

2 TBL extra virgin olive oil

2 quarts beef, chicken, turkey, or duck stock (or a combination of stock plus filtered water)

2 cups organic red or brown lentils, soaked for 7 hours, then drained and rinsed (I prefer brown lentils in this recipe)

1/2 tsp dried green peppercorns

2 TBL green curry paste

sea salt or fish sauce and pepper to taste

In a large stainless steel, titanium, or glass pot, cook onions and carrots in butter and olive oil on medium/low heat for about 1/2 hour until soft. When the vegetables are soft, add stock/water and lentils and bring to a boil. Skim off the foam as this will improve the soup's flavor (the foam contains off flavors). Reduce heat and add crushed peppercorns and green curry paste. Simmer with cover until the lentils are soft (about 30 minutes).

Puree soup with a handheld blender. Serve by itself, over basmati rice, or couscous -- whatever suits your fancy.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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H1N1 Vaccine Induced Abortion?

These comments below speak for themselves. The H1N1 vaccine is apparently inducing abortions in early term women and early contractions/preterm birth in later term pregnancies. Of course this is not being reported anywhere in the media. I blogged last month about the H1N1 vaccine ingredients being linked to sterility. The very sad truth is that these vaccinated women may never be able to get pregnant again on top of suffering the heartbreak of miscarriage.

November 6, 2009 at 11:00 am (40) kathy-sd says:


"I'm from a town of 2000 in SD, there are several women pregnant and we are all due within a few weeks of each other. Four of us got the H1N1 vaccine 2 weeks ago and one by one each of us started to have preterm contractions. We are all due in Nov and Dec so we are further along than most of the people that lost their babies. There is no way you can tell us that our preterm labor was not caused by the H1N1 vaccine. It may look like a "fluke" to some people when these women are scattered all over the country but we are talking about 4 of us in our small community. My heart goes out to all of you that lost your babies."






Posted on Sun Nov 15 04:19:29 2009 by American Dream 246


The reports are rolling in:


http://miscarriage.about.com/b/2009/09/29/some-pregnant-women-fearful-of-h1n1-vaccine.htm#gB3


(2) Regrets says:


I got both vaccines on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!


October 29, 2009 at 8:33 am (3) says:


i work in a hospital like setting and was told 'the benefits outweigh the risks" 1am i got the vaccine, 3am i started bleeding and craming, 3pm miscarried. you decide


October 31, 2009 at 1:29 pm (4) sue says:


I had the H1N1 vaccination and 24 hours later had a miscarriage.


October 31, 2009 at 8:25 pm (5) Linda Hill says:


My daughter in law was 10 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on Friday that night she miscarried.


November 1, 2009 at 9:58 pm (6) Stephanie says:


I received the H1N1 over a week ago. I am now 5 weeks. I am doing well so far.


November 2, 2009 at 10:52 pm (7) SoSorry says:


I was so ready to get the H1N1 vaccine last week and they were only giving them to pregnant women. I was 6 weeks along and got it and the next day I started cramping and miscarried. I already had two healthy pregnancies and never miscarried or had any problems. My doctors think I am crazy to think it was the H1N1 but if no one looks into this than other women will not know. I am so sorry that I got it.


November 3, 2009 at 4:30 pm (8) Connie says:


I also received the H1N1 vaccination on October 22nd, 2009 and went into labor on October 25th, at 16 weeks pregnant and we just heard the heartbeat and everything was fine with my pregnancy on October 16th, 2009, then on October 28th my water broke then on October 29th, I delivered a stillborn baby boy, and no one can tell me why.Everyone wants to say it did not come from the shot but I believe it did. My baby was growing at the correct pace and everyone wants to brush off the vaccination. I say if you have the vaccination and suffer a miscarriage if they are able to perform an autopsy have it done. November 3, 2009 at 4:34 pm


November 4, 2009 at 10:12 pm (10) sioux falls, south dakota says:


I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 16th and started experiencing cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on the 23rd. Like many of the other women here, the first thing I suspected was the H1N1 vaccine. I immediately asked a nurse at the hospital if that would have anything to do with it. Without hesitation, she told me "absolutely not." I had reservations about getting the vaccine, but followed the advice of my long trusted family doctor. In a follow up appointment with my doctor 3 days after I lost my baby, I asked him if the vaccine would have had any adverse effects on my baby. He also said that it was not possible. I don't believe that my doctor was necessarily lying to me, he was simply following the accepted practices and opinions of his field. I do, however, believe that as a nation, we are being lied to. This vaccine is NOT safe during pregnancy. There has not been enough testing done to determine this and there are far too many "coincidences" for this to be anything but a result of a vaccine that was hastily pushed into production and distribution in an effort to stop widespread panic. I have read so many stories in defense of the vaccine that will talk about how common miscarriages are, but I would challenge you to ask ANY health care professional how common second trimester miscarriages are. My baby was doing perfect developmentally and I had felt him move earlier that day. My heart goes out to all of you out there who have had to go through the same heartache and loss that I have had in the last couple of weeks. There is no reason that any woman or family should have to go through this. Get the word out to all of the pregnant women that you know. I know that if I had heard that women had been losing their babies shortly after they received the vaccine, I would have followed my gut and not gotten it myself. Maybe then Wyatt would have had a chance at life.


November 6, 2009 at 8:16 am (36) Marina Rossi says:


I recently got the H1N1 vaccine and miscarried 3 days later. I thought it could have been the vaccine but didnt ask. After finding this site I believe it was the vaccine. Sorry to everyone else out there who has just experienced a miscarriage.


November 6, 2009 at 11:54 am (42) ashley says:


Im not sure but not only myself, i know someone that withing 4 days of getting the shot we both miscarried, i was only 6 weeks and she was 4 months along, not sure if the shot caused it and cant find any other information but i am a little concerned about this coincidence.


November 11, 2009 at 2:05 pm (238) zoe says:


I was vaccinated on Friday and on Tuesday my first trimester screening ultrasound showed that my baby did not have a heart beat. I was 12 weeks along and the baby measured 12 weeks so it must have happened after the vaccination (when I was 11 weeks). I doubt that they will ever draw any conclusions about the cause of my baby's death but it is quite uncommon to have a miscarriage after 12 weeks and if I could make the decision again, I would have played it safe (although that's what I thought I was doing) and NOT have had the shot.


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http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=171377352549&id=1263973969&ref=nf Still thinking about getting a flu shot?


This is a heart breaking story from a friend of mine... Yes, tomorrow I will be protesting (with the consent of the mother who I'm still waiting to hear back from) in memory of Wyatt James Ihnen. The mother who received the vaccine is my best friend's sister-in-law. I am extremely close to the family.


She went in to get the H1N1 shot and that same night started experiencing cramps and the baby started kicking more than usual. She didn't think anything of it at first, just thought that she was getting sick or something, but the next morning she still had cramps so she went to the hospital and Wyatt was stillborn (natural birth!). Wyatt was 17 weeks old and 7 inches long. The mother and child were healthy with no complications prior to the shot.


She and the father are having an extremely hard time with the death of their son. She feels like by baby Wyatt kicking he was trying to tell mommy," Help me!" That thought haunts her.


The family performed a funeral and everything.


Dr. Joseph S Arvay Doctor of ChiropracTIC 303.457.8080 office 303.349.6011 cell info@spinegeek.com www.maximizedlivingdrarvay.com


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Emily November 14th, 2009 at 8:22 pm


THIS WEEK.. Tues 10 Nov 2:30pm I had the seasonal flu shot (not H1N1)- supposed to be safe for pregnant women & highly advised. Wed 11 Nov 4:30pm began bleeding and taken by ambulance to ER where heartbeat could not be confirmed externally. Thurs 12 Nov 9:30am internal ultrasound confirmed no heartbeat. Fri 13 Nov I had a D&C. My heart is absolutely broken.


I have never had a miscarriage before. Have 1 healthy son who I carried to term. No history of poor health (ie: diabetes, obesity, blood pressure, etc.)No drugs/alcohol. I eat a healthy diet with lots of raw veggies & fruit, but not vegatarian.


I heard my baby's heartbeat just a few weeks before and everything seemed to be progressing normally. Now may baby is gone and there is nothing I or anyone can do to turn back the clock. I will never know if this immunization was the cause of my loss or what. But I am utterly broken. Emily, Ft Benning, GA, USA


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11-08-2009, 09:26 PM nic.cox


This is so sad.


A friend of ours had a miscarriage on October 30th. She was just over 12 weeks along, and there was no heartbeat at the 12 week ultrasound. She was right on target for size and heartbeat the week before.


I just called my close friend (the woman who miscarried's best friend) and asked if she had gotten the H1N1 shot recently. It turns out that she got the shot the week before, at 11 weeks, when everything was fine with the pregnancy. Makes me wonder.


Personally, I'd never get a vaccine while pregnant. My gut just says "NO" and I try to trust that instinct, as it hasn't led me wrong so far.




Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Former Senior Policy Advisor
U.S. Department of Education


http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com
http://www.americandeception.com

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Breast Cancer Screening has Minimal Benefits

Finally! The American Cancer Society has admitted that its reckless advice to women for the past several decades to have an annual mammogram is not actually in the best interests of health. For an organization that gets millions upon millions of dollars in donations every year, yet has NEVER had a single cancer treatment breakthrough, this is an astonishing admission. I blogged earlier this year about the extreme dangers of mammograms and how the cumulative effects of radiation from this screening test actually CAUSE many breast cancers! A single mammogram exposes a woman's chest to 1 RAD of radiation; that's the equivalent of about 1000 chest xrays! This article (link below) does not go so far as to expose mammograms for what they truly are, a moneymaker for gynecologists (and that's about it), which is a shame. I would have gained a lot of respect for the ACS if it had finally admitted not only that mammograms were of minimal value in extending longevity but also the dangers they posed to the health of women who are cancer free at the time of the screening.

One step at a time. For now, the ACS is now saying that if a woman chooses not to have mammograms, that is a respectable decision based on the risks inherent in the process. As a 45 year old woman who should have technically had 5 mammograms already (mmmm, 5000 chest xrays? I don't think so), I am glad that I doubted their claims about the benefits of screening years ago, did my own research, and made my own decision NOT to EVER have a mammogram. Doctors make mistakes folks. And, it always pays to do your own research before blindly accepting a doctor's advice to have a screening test that potentially can cause the very disease that you're screening for.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33408887/ns/health-the_new_york_times/

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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H1N1 FluMist Nasal Vaccine Warning

Press Release
October 6, 2009

From: A. True Ott, PhD, ND
V.I.C. (Vaccine Injury Coalition)
1260 S. 1200 W. #3
Ogden, UT 84404

Contact Phone Number: 801-392-1635

Today, October 6, 2009, the Weber/Morgan Health Department began dispensing 'H1N1' "Swine Flu" nasal "flu-mist" vaccines to the general public, with the public announcement that all county "health departments" in the State of Utah would soon follow.

These vaccines are said to be "free" to the public - which is a false statement. The manufacturer of the "vaccine" - MedImmune Inc., has been paid handsomely for this serum by the federal government - thus the "vaccine" is not free at all. It has been paid for by our tax dollars. With the federal government, there is no such thing as a truly "free" benefit!

The news media has been blindly promoting this vaccine without mentioning the following risks:

1. The vaccine is composed of "live" viruses. The vaccine circular, page 21, section 17.2 warns under the heading "Vaccination with a Live Virus Vaccine": "Vaccine recipients or their parents/guardians should be informed by the health care provider that Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal is an attenuated live virus vaccine AND HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR TRANSMISSION TO IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOUSEHOLD CONTACTS". (Emphasis added). In layman's terms, the "live viruses" can be "shed" and cause other people to become infected.
2. The virus included in the FluMist vaccine is NOT a naturally-occurring virus, but is a laboratory-created "Influenza Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase VARIANT" that is protected by MedImmune U.S. Patent # 2008/0069821 A1.
3. According to the vaccine circular, this "live-virus" vaccine has not been tested, and is clearly experimental. The FDA has allowed it to be licensed solely under new "emergency" licensing provisions.
4. The vaccine dose contains 0.188 mg. of monosodium glutamate - a well-known brain excito-toxic compound. Placing this amount of MSG directly into the nasal passages can cause neurological adverse reactions.

I personally believe that providing this "live virus" spray to citizens will actually CAUSE the feared pandemic to occur. Based on the summer's events in the Southern Hemisphere, the W.H.O.'s "pandemic" has disappeared. The projected "2nd wave" in Australia and South America did not materialize. Therefore, there is no further justification for "pandemic level 6" status - and thus, no need for H1N1 live-virus vaccines to be given away "free".

Dr. Ott






VIC (Vaccine Injury Coalition)
Autism is 1 in 67 children today and it's impossible to have a genetic epidemic!
Please learn from our mistake and educate BEFORE you vaccinate!
For more information visit www.vacinfo.org or call 800-939-8227

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