Kentucky Hot Browns

While I am a big fan of the turkey sandwich, turkey soup, and most all of the other left over stand-by's...the Kentucky Hot Brown is far and away the most brilliant use for left over turkey. It kind of has an unfair advantage however because anything with cheese sauce poured over it is going to get my vote. (I would probably eat a rubber tire if it were smothered in cheese sauce... or cream cheese icing.)

You toast a piece of bread or two (english muffins work really great too), lay your warmed sliced turkey over the bread, pour a simple cheese sauce over the turkey, and then lay a couple of slices of bacon and tomato over that. You can then throw the whole thing under the broiler for a minute to get the tomato warmed through and the sauce super bubbly or you can just dig right in.

Any cheese sauce would do but here's a good one:

2 T butter

2 T flour

2 1/2 cups milk (whole if you've got it)

2 cups sharp cheddar (I like white)

1/4 cup Parmesan

Pinch of cayenne

Melt butter over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in the milk, bring to a boil and cook, whisking constantly, until thickened and the flour has cooked out, about 4 to 5 minutes. Whisk in cheese and cook until the cheese has melted. Season with cayenne and salt and pepper.

We ALWAYS serve steamed broccoli with hot browns because the cheese sauce is perfect over that too...

There's nothing like them!

Here's my Mom cooking up the cheese sauce!