Bavarian cream pie. Photo: spyder239, Flickr.

Turkey chili. Photo: Elana's Pantry, Flickr.

You feasted on turkey yesterday -- and might be doing so for the next week if your leftovers are particularly abundant. While the flavors of the Thanksgiving spread are delightful, after a few days you may find your taste buds tiring of turkey sandwiches and reheated leftovers of the same dishes. Why not reimagine your leftovers by adding different flavors altogether?

That's exactly what Elana's Pantry did. Her Turkey Chili recipe is a simple, fuss-free concoction, combining typical Thanksgiving leftovers (turkey, carrots, onion and broth) with roasted poblano peppers, cumin and oregano with some zingy fresh cilantro. An added bonus for post-Thanksgiving bloated bellies: the flavorful, brothy serving will satisfy without stuffing.

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Herb-Roasted Pastured Thanksgiving Turkey.
Photo: Coconut Recipes, Flickr.

Vanilla Bean Lemon Verbena Parfait. Photo: Dessert First, Flickr.

Happy National Parfait Day!

Although I'm not proud to admit my initial exposure to any food was at a fast-food chain, my first memory of the parfait involves those creamy -- though perhaps closer to pasty than luscious -- plastic-cupped "Little Bucket Parfaits" at the Colonel's KFC. My childhood self was delighted by the layered varieties, gleeful with the prospect of crumbled cookies awaiting at the bottom. (It runs in the family: My father is so notorious for his love for the British trifle -- which is differentiated by its inclusion of ladyfingers -- that, at my sister's wedding in the British countryside, her husband's mother presented my father with a bowl of it as an edible good-natured gesture.)

And, given my affinity for the elegant pudding, I was tantalized by Flickr user Dessert First's elegant Vanilla Bean and Lemon Verbena Parfait with Summer Raspberries. Check out their recipe or peruse our selection for a treat to celebrate today!

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Southern Comfort Barn Burner. Photo: Ezra Pound Cake, Flickr.

Fresh sardines. Photo: stu_spivak, Flickr.

Photo: beurremanie, Flickr.

Banana cake with caramel espresso frosting.
Photo: Fresh from the Oven 606, Flickr.

Photo: WhitneyinChicago, Flickr.

Red-lentil soup inspired my love of the brothy dish, both for its natural flavor and for its unparalleled comforting qualities -- in fact, so much so that my house has become known among friends as the "Soup Kitchen," and friends will randomly text while in the neighborhood to ask what's cooking.

I discovered red-lentil soup rather late in life, during my college years, at Sultan's Market, a small but fiercely beloved Mediterranean spot in Chicago's Wicker Park. Braving the bristly winter weather with a bowl of the soup to-go made my walk home doable, whatever obstacles the weather was throwing my way (and these usually included numbingly harsh winds).

And coming home to a spicy bowl of this stuff warmed was inevitably a body- and soul-warming experience. Although I'm fond of preserving the natural flavor of the red lentil by cooking it up in a soup with sparing ingredients (namely broth, garlic, onion and a touch of cumin), you can't go wrong with hardly any variety of the ultimate soothing concoction. Blogger Whitney in Chicago makes hers with red pepper flakes and chipotle, ups the heartiness factor with the addition of rice, and artfully tops it all off with slivered almond and zesty Feta. You should try her recipe -- I wholeheartedly back her in dubbing it a surefire "cure for darkness."

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Chervil vichyssoise. Photo: Gato-Azul, Flickr.

Challah bread. Photo: Alejandra of Always Order Dessert, Flickr.