Holiday Leftover Extravaganza!!!!

As Christmas chaos slowly starts to diminish and we are getting excited and ready for the New Year, you may be asking yourself the same question you ask after every holiday party: “what the heck am I going to do with all of these leftovers?”

This, of course is not so difficult. You don’t have to bore yourself eating the same thing day after day so that the food doesn’t go bad. Remember, you can make some really quick and exciting meals with leftovers–especially if you are a Wildtree afficionado.

For instance, if you happen to have a lot of leftover shrimp, I highly recommend a Shrimp Salad.

1 lb medium shrimp, shelled, deveined and cooked

1/4 cup finely chopped celery

1 Tbs mayonaise (safflower mayonaise is my personal favorite)

1 tsp Wildtree Dill Dip Blend

Chop the shrimp. combine the shrimp with celery, chives, mayonaise and Dill Dip blend in a bowl and mix well. Chill before serving and serve on a nice poofy bed of lettuce.

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OR, another great shrimp option would be Shrimp and Shells.

1 lb small shell pasta

8oz fresh snow peas

1 lb shrimp, cooked

4 Tbs Wildtree Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil

2 tbs Wildtree Dill Dip Blend

2/3 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese

Cook the pasta according to package directions. Steam the snowpeas until tender-crisp. Combine the shrimp, Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil and Dill Dip blend in skillet and cook over medium heat until hot. Add the pasta, snow peas and cheese and toss to coat.

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If you happen to have lots of left over vegetables and assorted meats (chicken, sausage, salmon) one of my favorite things to do with leftovers is to make Fajitas!!

3/4 lb boneless/skinless chicken, steak, salmon or tofu

2 Tbs Wildtree Fajita Seasoning

4 Tbs water

1 lg onion, cut into thin strips

2 or 3 bell peppers cut into thin strips and any other veggies you may happen to have

2 Tbs Wildtree Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil

Fajita-sized tortillas

Sour Cream

Cheese

Chipotle Salsa

the best Guacamole!!

Combine Wildtree Fajita seasoning and water. Add meat strips and marinate (30 min). Heat 1 Tbs Wildtree Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil in skillet. Add meat or tofu and saute until cooked through. Remove from skillet. Add remaining 1 Tbs Wildtree Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil and saute veggies until crisp-tender. Stir together with cooked meat or tofu. Serve in tortillas and top with sour cream, cheese, chipotle salsa and guacamole.

**Another thing you can do with all of the same ingredients is make Quessadillas. In this case, you would just mix together all ingredients except the tortillas and Butter Grapeseed Oil in a medium bowl. Very lightly brush oil on one side of each tortilla. Heat skillet. Place on tortilla, oiled side down in skillet. Spread the mixture of vegetables, meat or seafood on top of the tortilla. Place another tortilla on top of mixture, oiled side up. Cook until bottom tortilla browns a little, then carefully flip quesadilla. Cook on other side until the tortilla browns slightly and cheese is melted.

Your holiday leftovers never looked so good. Trust me. You and they will be wanting more and more and more until it is all gone.