Using Christmas Leftovers and New Year's Recipes (2024)
Easy recipes to use all of those Christmas leftovers and New Year’s recipes that your party guests will love! Make your holiday leftovers delicious!
Using Christmas Leftovers and New Year’s Party Recipes!
Leftover and Holiday Party Tips:
Here are some extra recipes to use those Christmas dinner leftovers and other holiday leftovers and also some dips to serve at your New Year’s get together.
This is an unexpected canape and a handy little finger food:
Roll about 1 teaspoon full your favorite cream cheese dip into a ball. Press it between two walnut halves. Lay on a platter to serve.
Save dry cereal odds and ends to add to your Chex mix when you make it.
Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting it in the fridge. It will keep much longer.
Cheesy Mashed Potatoes Recipe (For Using Leftover Mashed Potatoes)
3-4 cups mashed potatoes 4 oz. cream cheese, softened in the microwave 1 clove of garlic or 1 tsp. garlic powder, to taste 1 cup Mexican cheese blend, shredded
Mix potatoes, cream cheese and garlic. Place in a 1 quart greased baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese. Place under the broiler for 3-4 minutes until cheese is melted.
Eggnog Pound Cake Recipe
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine 2/3 cup sliced almonds
Grease a Bundt or tube pan with butter and press almonds into the sides and bottom.
Prelheat oven to 350°. Beat everything together until smooth. Pour into a prepared pan. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
David’s Favorite Dip
1 jar Kraft Old English cheese spread 1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup nuts, chopped
Mix ingredients. Roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap. Serve with chips.
Most of the time we just mix it and serve in a bowl without wrapping it.
Mix everything. Chill. If you want to make a ball or log then don’t mix in the almonds. Instead, make your cheese ball or log and then roll it in the almonds.
*To toast your almonds, lay them on foil or a pan and heat in a 400° oven until brown. Watch carefully.
Serve with chips.
This dip tastes like some very expensive ones that you can buy pre-made. it is a perfect holiday recipe! Be sure to use dried herbs and not powdered herbs. Dried herbs are the bigger flakes that haven’t been finely ground.
Herb Dip
1 clove garlic, crushed or garlic powder 2 (8 oz.) pkgs. cream cheese, softened 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine 1 tsp. dried oregano 1/4 tsp. each of dried basil, dill weed, marjoram, thyme, pepper
Blend all ingredients together. This will keep in the refrigerator for 1 week or in the freezer for 3 months.
Here’s a recipe for you fruit lovers! It’s a great recipe to make to use all of those fruit plate Christmas leftovers!
Cinnamon Sour Cream
1/4 cup sour cream 2 tsp. sugar 1/8 tsp. cinnamon Dash of nutmeg
Mix and serve with fresh fruit. You can use this as a fruit salad dressing. too. If you decide to use it as a dressing, you can use canned fruit and garnish with the coconut and/or toasted chopped almonds or nuts.
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Repurposing leftovers into new meals can make them a little more exciting. Depending on the seasoning of the original meal, you can add leftover meat, vegetables or seafood to fajitas, fried rice, pasta sauce, soup or a casserole. Look for ways to make it different from the original.
Leftovers stored in the fridge should be eaten within three days. When freezing Christmas meats or stuffing, wrap them in heavy freezer wrap and put them in a container suitable for your freezer.
Looking for prosperity? As Southern tradition dictates, black-eyed peas, greens, and cornbread represent pennies, dollars, and gold, respectively, so eating them together on New Year's will keep your purse full all year long.
Leftovers can be kept in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days or frozen for 3 to 4 months. Although safe indefinitely, frozen leftovers can lose moisture and flavor when stored for longer times in the freezer.
Using your leftovers can also help you save time, labor, and money. Despite this, many things may keep us from using our leftovers: we aren't sure if they are safe, we forget about them, or we perceive leftovers as less appealing (Schanes et al., 2018).
What's amazing about these old fruitcakes is that people have tasted them and lived, meaning they are still edible after all these years. The trifecta of sugar, low moisture ingredients and some high-proof spirits make fruitcakes some of the longest-lasting foods in the world.
In the South, that means a meal of collard greens, hoppin' John, black-eyed peas, cornbread, and pot likker soup. For an auspicious year, we've rounded up some of our favorite traditional New Year's Day recipes. We have all the traditional New Year's recipes, from Southern-style collards to classic Hoppin' John.
Greens, pork, and cornbread, as well as black-eyed peas, cowpeas, or beans, are some of the typical symbolic foods served on New Year's Day. When planning your dinner menu, add the Southern foods that some say bring good luck and avoid those that may do just the opposite in the new year.
Part of the popular New Year's Day good luck food trio, a slice of cornbread rounds out a plate of lucky foods for the new year thought to bring about wealth and good fortune. As the saying goes, “Peas for pennies, greens for dollars and cornbread for gold.”
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