The crave-able Thanksgiving letfover dish I think about ALL YEAR...

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Vanda Ciceryova Hodgins
November 25, 2024 • Reading time: 3 minutes

This one dish is what I look forward to for months - more than the actual Thanksgiving dinner! Husband made it up a couple of years ago, in a flash of inspiration — an “everything in the fridge” quesadilla the day after Thanksgiving — with mole — and it became an obsession...

It goes like this: a turkey, a sweet potato, and a pomegranate walk into a cheesy bar… 🎤 

Jokes aside, this dish, I promise, will blow your socks off. It uses your leftover turkey bits and pieces. Sweet potato leftovers, chopped up - purple, orange, white, yams are fair game. Pomegranates give it a crunch. Gooey mozzarella or queso oaxaca take it to heavenly dimensions. Yes you can add any other veggie. Zazz it up with zhoug sauce and pomegranate seeds. Dip it in mole.

Thanksgiving Leftover Quesadilla

OK, this is a quesadilla. I feel silly making a “recipe” for it: Turkey leftovers, Sweet potato leftovers, chopped up. Pomegranates. Mozzarella cheese or queso Oaxaca

https://www.vandaland.com/recipe/thanksgiving-quesalilla

This dish is one I crave all year long… A family all-time favorite!

About that zazz, (not that it needs any zazzing): I like it with a side zhoug sauce, which is a jalapeno, cilantro, garlic, cardamon, and cumin sauce - super easy to make.

Optional but highly recommended:

If it is an option at all, get some fresh tortillas from a local tortilla maker.

Dip it with Mole sauce! This is my favorite.

Go crazy and ADD zhoug INSIDE it

Zhoug sauce

This sauce is super versatile, dip for veggie tray, sauce on steak, add to salad dressing, a dollop of seasoning atop of blended soups, wonderful as a spread for a sandwich, eat it right out of a jar ~ it works everywhere!

https://www.vandaland.com/recipe/zhoug

Lety me know what you think!!!

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In the wise words of one of my favorite humans Mary Van Geffen: “The holidays are supposed to be our long-awaited season of blissful nostalgia dotted with cozy socializing. In reality, it is often a time of opening boxes of deep grief, twisted family dynamics, financial fears, dreaded obligations, mixed with a longing for meaning. And don’t forget the pressure to conjure up magical memories for our kids. It’s a lot.”

Take care of yourself. We are headed to LA for Thanksgiving. See some of you there!

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