Using Thanksgiving Leftovers! :-)

I hope all had a GREAT Turkey Day! I know that my family and I were thankful for so many things this year! Another thing that I am thankful for is my Thanksgiving leftovers! Turkey Sandwichs, Turkey soup, Turkey  Pot Pie... Oh... So GOOD! And the good thing about it is, that it doesn't feel like you are eating turkey over and over again!! ;-) I grabbed a 20 pound bird from Safeway (for $.27/ pound) and knew that I could use this bird to give my family a few lasting meals!

Well, while I knew what to do with the left over Turkey and Stuffing... the question of the day was: What can I do 'differently' with my mashed potatoes? So I found a recipe for Potato Bread in the 'Old-Fashioned Cookbook' by Better Crocker... (I love that lady!)

I just pulled out my two loaves of bread, and they TASTE SO GOOD!!! You would never guessed that I baked these here in my oven! So I thought I would pass on the savings to you! The added benefit is that you can make YUMMY turkey sandwiches with this YUMMY bread!

Potato Bread (curtesy of Betty Crocker's Old-Fashioned Cookbook)


6 - 6 1/2 c. Bread Flour
1/2 c. Sugar
2 tsp. Salt
2 pkg active dry yeast (4 1/2 tsp)
2 c. very warm water
1 c. luke warm leftover mashed potatos
1/4 c. vegetable oil
2 eggs


mix 3 cups of flour, sugar, salt and yeast in mixer. Add water, mashed potatos, oil and eggs and beat on low for 1 minute. Then stir in remaining flour (1 c. at a time), until the dough is easy to handle.
turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and knead for about 10 minutes (YES, THIS IS IMPORTANT!!) until dogh is smooth and elastic.
Place in greased bowl and let rise for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
Grease 2 9X5 loave pans.
Punch dough down and split in 2. roll and flatten each halve to 18X9 inches. roll dough into a loaf shape and place into bread pan. Let rise for 1 hour, or until doubled.
Heat oven to 375 degrees and bake the loaves for 30-35 minutes, or until loaves of deep golden brown (mine were done 10 minutes early). remove from pans and then brush with butter.. and when they are cool enough..... EAT THEM UP!!!!!!!