Name: What to do with Thanksgiving Leftovers! Hilah Cooking
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Hey dudes, I'm Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking we're talking about Thanksgiving leftovers recipes.

I'm gonna share with you my favorite turkey sandwich that my grandma used to make for us, and follow that up with a few more suggestions for how to use up your Thanksgiving leftovers with style and pizazz, not pizza, but turkey pizza sounds okay.

This is my favorite sandwich because my grandma used to make this all the time for us.

She would add these ingredients to her list when she did her Thanksgiving shopping so that she could be sure to have all this stuff on hand to make sandwiches for us.

This is the Haas avocado, which is the bumpy black one.

You want one that's black or almost black and should feel a little bit soft.

I like to test it towards the stem end and just give it kind of a very gentle feel all around to make sure there's no divots or really strange soft spots that might be bruised.

And then if you pop the little stem off and you look inside, if that part's green, then that's also a good sign.

You wouldn't want to get one probably by the time the little center part is black or something.

So, let's cut this open and see if I'm right.

Wouldn't that be embarrassing if this was just like a total disaster inside?

My family, we like it really well done and crunchy, especially on this sandwich.

So, the thing about bacon is you want to put it into a cold pan first and then turn it on to medium heat.

As that heat increases, it'll render out more of the fat so you end up with crispy bacon rather than like kind of flabby bacon.

And then just flip it a few times until it's as done as you like.

I also did a video on that a few years ago for like a butter-injected turkey.

And I'll put a card up here to link to that so you can see how to cook a turkey, but this is just some leftover sliced turkey breast.

I like to leave the skin on for my sandwiches.

White bread is really, really important for this sandwich.

Mayonnaise is the other crucial component.

Feels so silly to be making a sandwich, but you know, sandwiches was a crucial part of my growing up.

Sometimes we would even have these sandwiches like late Thanksgiving night, you know, and you do like your Thanksgiving meal at like 11 a.m. and then everybody's still hungry again by like five.

Make sure you get mayonnaise all the way to all the edges, unless you're gonna cut the crust off.

It's my sandwich and I'll do what I want to.

And if you have any leftover cranberry sauce, that's good too, but it's totally not necessary.

Okay, then two big slices of tomato down.

And I always, always, unless I'm packing the sandwich to go, in that case I don't do this,

I like to put a little salt and pepper right on the tomato because it's so juicy and it kind of like really sucks in all the salt and pepper flavor, just to make sure you have a well-seasoned sandwich.

This part of the layering is not quite as crucial.

You can kind of do any arrangement you like after you get the tomato down.

And I like the tomato right on the bread so that it does kind of, the tomato like soaks into the bread a little bit too and it gets all the flavors just get all together.

And then for the avocado, this is, I just do this.

A lot of people are like, that's so dangerous.

But I tell you, I have never like cut all the way through and sliced my hand in half or anything.

So I don't think it's really that dangerous if you just use very light pressure, which if your avocado is ripe, that should be all you need.

And then I'm gonna use some of this avocado on the other side of the bread as kind of a spread.

Kind of like smear it around a little bit.

I like bacon when it's like crunchy like a cracker and kind of almost burnt.

So usually like two slices of bacon broken in half.

My grandmother died like, oh gosh, I think it was about four years ago.

And I don't think I've had this sandwich since we used to have Thanksgiving at her house and that was even longer than four years ago because she was in a nursing home for a long time before that.

You're gonna be witnessing me eating my childhood.

After this, I've got coming up a chicken pot pie, which you can totally use leftover turkey to make a turkey pot pie.

But first, I'm gonna eat this delicious looking sandwich.

And one thing I always appreciated when I was a kid is how pretty it is on the inside.

The avocado and the turkey and everything and I'm talking too much and I should just eat this.

I hope that you guys make this and share it with your family.

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Hey dudes, I'm Hilah and today on Hilah Cooking, we're doing an old timey American classic, chicken pot pie.

And I'm really excited because this is actually the first recipe we've ever done on Hilah Cooking that has marijuana in it.

We're gonna make our creamed chicken filling.

I just used a whole chicken that I cut up and then boiled for about an hour in four cups of water and then just shredded it like this.

All right, I'm gonna add my vegetables now just to get them a little bit softened up before it bakes in the oven.

And I've just got onions and celery, carrots and a ear of corn, just fresh corn that I cut off the cob.

And I showed you how to do that in the quinoa salad video if you need to see how to remove the kernels from the ear of corn.

Okay, so once the onions are just starting to get a little bit translucent, we can go ahead and scoop them out into a bowl.

And you could probably skip this step if you cut up your vegetables really, really small.

They'd probably cook just fine in the oven without this little head start, but that's up to you.

A little more butter in the pan for our roux.

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