I love to cook for the holidays. I love having my children at my home and feeding them as if “diet” was a word only extraterrestrials knew the meaning of. What I don’t love doing is throwing food out when they leave because I personally happen to know the definition of “diet”. So one of the creative ways I get around the left over problem is to develop new casseroles.

This year I had a winner on my hands. I had about a cup and a half of left over homemade hollandaise sauce, a smidgeon of Asparagus and some turkey. When I looked in my pantry I noticed about a half a bag full of egg noodles. I started the casserole by blanching the asparagus and then I warmed up the sauce in a huge cast iron skillet. I then added about two cups of turkey to the sauce and started boiling the noodles. As soon as the noodles were Al Dante I added them to the sauce and also put in the diced Aparagus. It was delicious looking. The creamy sauce looked delicious swimming through the noodles.

Then I made a mistake. I put it in the oven with some crushed potato chips. It was only in the oven about 20 minutes and I took it out and all of the sauce had disappeared! I don’t know where it went to, it just evaporated into thin air.

My son liked it anyhow so the entire casserole went with him to college.

So next time I try this casserole I will not put it in the oven. What I will do is just keep it warm on the stove top and maybe melt some shredded cheddar cheese on top. I am hoping to try this idea again during Christmas time with ham instead of Turkey mixed in.