Recipe: Turkey Tetrazzini

A week from today is Thanksgiving, and afterwards, if your family is like ours, you'll have leftover turkey.  Here's a tasty recipe that uses those leftovers:

8 ounces of cooked spaghetti
2 tablespoons of minced onion
3 tablespoons of butter
1 tablespoon of flour
1 cup of turkey (or chicken) broth
1 cup of milk
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can shredded cheddar cheese
3 cups of chopped, cooked turkey
¼ cup of dry white wine
8 ounces of sauteed mushrooms
2 tablespoons of dried or fresh parsley
½ cup of slivered almonds





Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the flour. Add broth, and stir until the mixture thickens. Add broth, salt, milk, cream of mushroom soup, and cheese. Cook until the cheese melts, continuing to stir frequently.

Stir in the turkey, mushrooms, wine, parsley, and almonds. Place spaghetti into a 10 X 13 baking dish. Pour the sauce over the spaghetti and mix until noodles are coated and turkey is distributed fairly evenly throughout the dish. Bake for 45 minutes.

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Recipe: Pumpkin Pie from Scratch

Reader Helen T. from Moonachie, NJ, gives us this recipe for homemade pumpkin pie:

If you're going to make pumpkin pie from scratch, you want a small sugar pumpkin, not the big field pumpkin used for jack o'lanterns. Wash the pumpkin with warm water to remove any dirt, then cut it in half with a serrated knife or a small saw.

Scoop out the seeds and save them for roasting. Remove the stem and put the pumpkin pieces in a microwavable bowl. (You may need to cut the pumpkin into smaller pieces.) Put a couple inches of water in the bowl and microwave until soft (about 10 minutes).  You can also steam it on a stove for 30 minutes.

Scoop the meat out of the skin. Let it sit for 30 minutes and drain any standing water. Put it in a blender on puree for three minutes.

Mix three cups of pumpkin puree with 1 cup of sugar or 3/4 cup of honey. Add 1 teaspoon of ground cloves, 1 teaspoon of ground allspice, 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger, 4 large eggs, and 18 ounces of condensed milk. Mix well, Pour into a pie crust. This makes a fluffy pie; if you'd like a denser pie, use three eggs and 12 ounces of condensed milk.

Bake the pie for 15 minutes at 425 degrees, then turn the oven down to 350 degrees and bake another 45 minutes or so, until a table knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

By the way, to roast the seeds, wash them in warm water and dry on a paper towel for 30 minutes. Then mix them with a tablespoon of oil or melted butter and roast them in the oven at 250 degrees for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown. Salt them for a delicious snack.

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