Got lots of Thanksgiving leftovers that you don’t know how to use?
Here are some ideas and some of the treats I have been making myself.
Cranberry Ice Cream – use leftover cranberry sauce to make ice cream! I made mine vegan – one can chilled not-lite coconut milk plus one cup sugar plus 1 to 1.5 cups cranberry sauce and a dash of vanilla. Blend and add chilled mix to an ice cream maker and voila, yummylishious ice cream!
Cranberry Smoothie – still have leftover cranberry sauce? Mix with ice, non-dairy milk of your choosing and ice (and maybe a banana). Blend and serve!
Pumpkin Smoothie – leftover pumpkin? Yams? Sweet potatoes? Even if they are mixed into something sweet (like a pie), you can toss it in the blender with some ice and non-dairy milk and have a fun smoothie.
Hot Pumpkin (like hot chocolate but with pumpkin instead) – this works best if you have pumpkin puree and not, say, a pumpkin pie you want to use. Add about 2 tablespoons per cup of non-dairy milk, some pumpkin pie spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger) and blend. Then heat in a saucepan to a boil, reduce to simmer until it’s a nice creamy drink. The original, more detailed, recipe can be found over at Healthy. Happy. Life.
Awesome leftover ideas. I still can’t believe the cranberry ice cream was good. What a weird idea ;p
Oh and you are still the only person that has made me “pumpkin” something that I have thoroughly enjoyed =)