31 days till Christmas.. It's Black Friday..eeek!! Eat this. (Turkey Enchiladas, Black Bean Soup)

Eat This.. Day after Thanksgiving...

Quick and Easy Food to fortify you after a rough day of shopping!!


Turkey Enchiladas

For a healthier spin on classic enchiladas, you can use reduced-fat sour cream, diced turkey, reduced-fat shredded Swiss cheese and roasted red peppers into corn tortillas and bakes them until bubbly.

8 corn tortillas, stacked and wrapped in foil

2 3/4 cup(s) green salsa (salsa verde)

1/2 cup(s) sour cream

1/2 cup(s) fresh cilantro, chopped

8 ounce(s) cooked turkey or chicken breast, diced

1 jar(s) (7-oz) roasted red peppers, sliced

6 ounce(s) Swiss cheese, shredded (1 1/2 cups)

Diced tomato and sliced scallion, for serving

 

Place tortilla stack in the oven and heat oven to 425°F.

 

In a medium bowl, combine the salsa, sour cream and cilantro. Spread 1/2 cup of mixture on the bottom of 2- to 2 1/2-qt. baking dish.

In second bowl, combine the turkey, peppers and 1 cup cheese. Remove tortillas from oven. Divide the turkey mixture among the tortillas (a scant 1/2 cup each). Roll up and place seem-side down in the baking dish. Top with the remaining salsa mixture.

In second bowl, combine the turkey, peppers and 1 cup cheese. Remove tortillas from oven. Divide the turkey mixture among the tortillas (a scant 1/2 cup each). Roll up and place seem-side down in the baking dish. Top with the remaining salsa mixture.

Cover with nonstick foil and for 15 minutes. Uncover, sprinkle with the remaining ½ cup cheese and bake until the cheese melts, 8 to 10 minutes

serve with ... green salad.... or this wonderful soup


Black Bean Soup

1 tablespoon(s) olive oil

2 medium carrots, chopped

2 clove(s) garlic, finely chopped

1 large (10- to 12-ounce) onion, chopped

1 medium (4- to 6-ounce) red pepper, chopped

2 teaspoon(s) ground cumin

1/4 teaspoon(s) crushed red pepper

Salt

2 cup(s) water

2 can(s) (15- to 19-ounce) black beans, rinsed and drained

1 can(s) (14 to 14.5-ounce) reduced sodium chicken broth

1/4 cup(s) fresh cilantro leaves, chopped, plus sprigs for garnish

1 tablespoon(s) fresh lime juice

 

In 6-quart saucepot, heat oil on medium until hot. Add carrots, garlic, onion, and pepper; cook 12 to 15 minutes or until vegetables are lightly browned and tender, stirring occasionally. Add cumin, crushed red pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon salt; cook 1 minute.

 

Stir in water, beans, and broth; heat to boiling on medium-high. Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes to blend flavors.

 

Ladle 3 cups soup into blender; cover, with center part of cover removed to allow steam to escape, and blend until pureed. Stir puree into soup in saucepot; heat through on medium. Stir in cilantro and lime juice, and garnish with cilantro sprigs to serve. Makes about 6 1/2 cups. 

 

 

The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally called Black Friday. 

 

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early and offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many non-retail employers also observe this day as a holiday along with Thanksgiving, giving their employees the day off, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.

 

The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black".^[

 

For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6:00 a.m., but in the late 2000s many had crept to 5:00 or even 4:00. This was taken to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers (including Target, Kohls, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls) opened at midnight for the first time. In 2012, Walmart led several other retailers in announcing it would open its stores at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, prompting calls for a walkout among some workers.

 

Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists and many concerned citizens. Buy Nothing Day is held the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the last Saturday in November internationally, which in 2012 correspond to November 23 in North America and November 24 internationally. Buy Nothing Day was founded in Vancouver by artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by Adbusters magazine, based in Canada.

 

Buy Nothing Day has recently been modified by Adbusters and renamed Occupy Xmas, a reference to the Occupy Movement. Buy Nothing Day was first joined with Adbuster's Buy Nothing Christmas campaign. Shortly there after, Lauren Bercovitch, the production manager at Adbusters Media Foundation publicly embraced the principles of Occupy Xmas, advocating "something as simple as buying locally—going out and putting money into your local economy—or making your Christmas presents". Previously, the central message of Occupy X-mas and Occupy Christmas differed in that Occupy X-Mas called for a "buy nothing Christmas" and Occupy Christmas called for support of local economy, artists and craftspeople in holiday shopping. The union of these ideologies calls for a Buy Nothing Day to kick off a season of supporting local economy and family.

 

 

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