Well, maybe you can celebrate the leftovers with some pasta!
This cute, turkey-shaped pasta is available from The Pasta Shoppe (which also makes a really cute penguin pasta, too). It includes recipes for a day-after turkey soup, as well as macaroni and cheese.
It’s not necessarily cheap at $4.95 for 14 ounces, but it’d make a fun surprise for dinner and now and then. It’d also be a cute gift for a turkey fanatic!
[image: the pasta shoppe]

The Today Show offered up some fun Father’s Day gift ideas.  They had some great ideas for the outdoor cook, the dad with a sweet tooth and your Sports loving father.
You can get custom made cookies and gourmet ice cream, for the healthy conscious dad- a basket of gourmet health foods and even some Salt and Pepper Shakers for the baseball lover.  Here are some of their food inspired gifts for dad:

For the dad on-the-go
Is your dad a jet-setter or road warrior? Add a smile to his daily commute with clever coffee mugs that say “Don’t Make Me Stop This Car” …read more

 
If your kid is learning to cook, loves to spend time with you in the kitchen and loves Rachael Ray it is not too late to have Santa add a few things to their list.
Rachael Ray may concern me a little when I watch her in the kitchen cooking with kids, but I think that she has the right idea.  Cooking is great for kids.  It teaches them reading and math skills.  It also gives them a chance to be a little creative, maybe try some foods they normally wouldn’t and then there is the whole “teach a man to …read more

Here is another great idea for a gift for your foodie…or even for yourself this year.  My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals by Melanie Dunea.
Book Description

Annie Leibovitz meets Heat in this award-winning photographer’s stunning celebration of world-famous chefs and their final meals.
 
Chefs have been playing the “My Last Supper” game among themselves for decades, if not centuries, but it had always been kept within the profession until now. Melanie Dunea came up with the ingenious idea to ask fifty of the world’s famous chefs to let her in on this insider’s game and tell her what …read more

 I think it is funny that the fans of celebrity chefs want to own all the little gadgets, pots and service ware that they see on TV.  I guess it is only natural.  I could really care less about most of the things I see, but I do have to admit that I have always been fascinated by the plates, bowls and such that Rachael Ray uses.  It has more to do with taste than the person using it.  I love retro patterns and geometric shapes.
Rachael Ray recently announced two new products that she has added to her line.  The …read more

 Within the next few days, I need to make my final decision on what cookies I am making for gifts and family enjoyment this Christmas season. 
I started to see if there were any that caught my eye.  These Poinsettia Cookies look incredible.  The recipe isn’t hard, just takes a little more time and probably a little finesse, something that I am not sure if I have patience for this year.  If you are baking cookies with the kids, this may be a fun cookie to play around with.
I read through the reviews.  Here is the scoop:  just about everyone who made …read more

 
I was browsing for some unique gifts for the food lover in your life.  I then came across this article, Gifts for the Foodie Wannabe by Lauren Beckham Falcone of the Boston Herald:
He Tivos the Food Network but doesn’t know how to boil water.  She covets Calphalon but isn’t sure what a saucier is.  He wants to learn how to cook coq au vin-but first, he needs to learn how to pronounce it.
Hmmm….are they talking about me???  Anyway, some great ideas including this game that I have missed the boat on.  Eat It!  Snacks and Sweets Trivia Game:
Eat It is the …read more

 Chef Filip Verheyden has a must-have cookbook for all cooks.  From understanding how to julienne to making potato foam, there is something here for all levels.  The critics all love The Basics:  The Foundations of Modern Cooking making comparisons to a bible or the sexiest little black book you will ever own.
Gourmet Magazine:
“A small, elegant book [that] deftly and concisely explains basic techniques. . . . It’s a pocket road map of how to navigate a kitchen, and I can’t think of anyone, novice or old hand, who would not be glad to have it.”
 
New York Times Magazine:
“A stylish little cookbook . …read more

This week Martha Stewart gave us a 15 second peek to a new line of China that her company is developing with Wedgwood that will be available in the Spring at Macy’s.  She also promoted her line of kitchen tools.  Some are nice to have, some you can live without and some are clever ideas that Martha’s team has developed or made better.
There are 200 kitchen gadgets…oh, I mean “tool’s” to choose from.  These will make great gifts for the Holidays or maybe you know a couple that is getting married.
The gadgets are the basics like spoons and spatulas to nice …read more

Rocco DiSpirito is out with a new cookbook just in time for Holiday gift giving.
Rocco’s Real Life Recipes: Fast Flavor for Every Day, is his way of helping the home cook make fast and flavorful meals:
As “Best New Chef” (Food & Wine, 1999) and “America’s Most Exciting Young Chef” (Gourmet, 2000), as well as the star of NBC reality show, The Restaurant (2003), Rocco DiSpirito has developed a loyal following who love his flavorful recipes that can be prepared quickly and with easy to find ingredients. The cookbook is peppered with Rocco’s own thoughts about cooking and short cuts that …read more