AFTER THANKSGIVING

So, you decide to cook Thanksgiving dinner, after all. You're going to be out of town, but why not leave food for others to enjoy?
You decide to bake the customary turkey, a sweet potato pie, and cornbread dressing. You prepare gravy, cabbage, and rice. You think macaroni and cheese would be nice, too, but you only have a half a box of elbow macaroni, and a half a bag of Parmesan cheese. This is where lazy you, who doesn't want to go to any grocery store, comes in. You don't argue when the suggestion is made that you go to the nearest KFC drive-through. You purchase 2 large mac and cheese sides, and hustle yourself back home.

You come back from your fantastic working vacation and find that the mac and cheese wasn't a hit. It needs help. No one wanted runny, soupy mac and cheese, so the containers are in the refrigerator---waiting for you...You don't want to throw away food, so you decide to help the mac and cheese become more palatable, and firm--the way you would have done if you hadn't forgotten to buy more macaroni. You boil the half box of elbow macaroni you have (which was part of the reason you went to KFC in the first place) with a quarter of a stick of butter and whatever is left in the bags of frozen mixed peppers, and green peppers and onions you used for the other stuff. You realize that you used all of the celery in the turkey, cabbage and dressing. Wait! There's some Old Bay! The first ingredients in it are celery salt/celery seed! Open the containers of KFC mac and cheese and sprinkle some right on top-- along with onion and garlic powder, and pepper. In a separate bowl you mix one egg, a cup of milk, then, when almost all of the water has boiled out of the elbow macaroni, pour in the KFC Mac and cheese and the shredded Parmesan. Toss in that lone piece of American cheese you found in the fridge, then add the milk/egg mixture and stir it all up right in the pot. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease your baking pan with vegetable oil, then pour in the contents of the pot. Spread it all out, and top it with paprika. Then bake until the oil is bubbling and the sides are golden.
I tell ya, doctored KFC mac and cheese is not bad... not bad at all.

It's Monday. The wings and drumsticks are gone. It's probably time to make turkey salad.