Thanksgiving was Thursday (yes, I realize that it's always on Thursday) and now it's Saturday. This means that you are heading into your third day of turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes and might be ready for a bit of a break. Whenever I find that I've overdone the heavy foods, what my body wants more than anything is just a big, simple salad. However, just because you're eating salad doesn't mean that you can't still incorporate some of your turkey leftovers.
Wash and tear some lettuce. I find that romaine works best for this kind of salad, because it is tough enough to stand up to lots of add-ins. Then start looking in the fridge. Cube up the last of the breast meat (I promise it will taste different cold and doused with Italian dressing). If you put out a relish tray before dinner on Thursday, get the remnants of that out and cut up the last of those celery sticks, gherkins, baby carrots and olives. They all make great salad additions. A little cranberry relish (the raw kind, not the jellied stuff) is excellent with greens. If you are the type to serve steamed green beans at your dinner and you have a few leftover, they also are terrific in salad. However, green bean casserole won't work. If your leftovers make a paltry-looking salad, you can always open a can of black beans, steam up some beets, shred some broccoli and hard boil an egg or two to round out the toppers.
If you're making this salad just for yourself, you can just toss it all together in a big bowl. If you're feeding a bunch, I'd suggest doing this salad bar style so that people can avoid the bits they don't like as much. Use your favorite dressing to top it.
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11-24-2007 @ 3:20PM
Allison said...
Did you get permission to use that photo from flickr? If not, you should switch it up for something that is not (c) all rights reserved.
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11-24-2007 @ 6:09PM
Wicked Good Dinner said...
Love it! I can feel the detox now :-)
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11-24-2007 @ 7:33PM
ann marie said...
i got food poisoning bad from thanksgiving dinner at brodeurs on state st in media...all i ate was the salad and a few spoonfuls of soup before i started to feel it coming....so now its sat and i am just getting over 2 days of my body fluids projectile flying out of my orifices...the last thing i want right now is a salad....im not sure what i want now that im finally hungry again....carbs i think....or roasted beets...oatmeal....but not anything raw....im scared to death of salads right now.
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