Home For The Holidays Hop Stop: Turkey Spaghetti

With holidays, family time, shopping, Christmas programs, and everything else life is about to get really hectic for some of us.   Others of us (cough, cough Dariel) have probably already got it all organized out on their calendar, even planning for spontaneous naughty guests like I would be, to throw her a monkey wrench on the day of the plans.  I adore her so I have to tease her.  She knows I miss it already.

Anyway, the theme of this blog hop hosted by The Romance Troupe is to celebrate the holidays and share a favorite recipe with our readers.  So I bring you a family favorite.  I have blogged it on a recipe blog a few years ago but at the holidays this is a great one to share.  If you organize and plan well you can keep this in your freezer and pull out to cook on the day of your plans.  Or you can realize you need to use the rest of your turkey leftovers before they spoil and quickly throw it together to surprise your family.

Turkey Spaghetti

Cooked turkey cut/torn into chunks – use your best guess here on how meat heavy you want to make the dish.   I use between 1-2 cups (Orig recipe calls for chicken and that’s great but I’m talking about how to use that extra turkey right now and I actually prefer turkey we’ve done it that way so often)

1 box of cooked spaghetti

2 cans of cream of soup (orig recipe calls for cream of chicken & cream of celery but almost any 2 cream soups work well, I’ve mixed and matched with mushroom/celery – mushroom/broc, etc)

1 jar of Cheese Whiz (generic works and so does Ragu – here’s the deal if you use a thick sauce like Cheese whiz you’ll need to use a soup can of milk if you use something runny like a jar of Ragu cheese sauce skip the milk)

2 cups shredded cheddar

While you’re cooking your noodles, mix together the soup and cheese sauce in a sauce pan.  Heat and mix them.   Drain noodles.  Dump it all in a casserole dish with the turkey and stir.   Throw the cheese on top.  Throw in oven at 350 for 30 minutes or so.  Everything is cooked so you’re really just baking the flavors together and melting the cheese on top.  It’s a mish mash recipe of sorts because it’s so easy to make it work with almost any variation on the ingredients.  And to be honest I’ve made it so often I don’t even measure things like how much turkey I throw in there, I eyeball it.

We love turkey spaghetti almost as much as turkey day in our house!

Now to the book stuff:

I have a couple of exciting things to share! I’ll be in an anthology with the other Romance Troupe’rs in February.   I’m also working on a new contemporary romance.  This one will be the first in a trilogy and involves some sexy, hot firemen.

Untameable Heat: Lilith’s Freedom received a review and if you haven’t checked it out yet – here’s a little snippet of what reviewer Natalie had to say:
“The setting was nice - The Master's Lair reminded me of the demon club in Lilith Saintcrow's Kismet Series, a place you want to go but don't want to get caught! There are some really good scenes in there and I enjoyed the short read.”

The full review can be found here: Satin Sheets

Leave a comment with your email to be entered into the grand prize.  Feel free to share one of your favorite holiday recipes or cooking tips.   I’m also going to be doing a giveaway so make sure you hit the rafflecopter.

Thanks for stopping by.  I can’t wait to hear from you.

In the meantime make sure you stop by all of the hop bloggers to get a chance at that prize pack.  

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