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  • 🐷 Holy Smokes, That Soup’s Got a Second Life!

    🐷 Holy Smokes, That Soup’s Got a Second Life!

    Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Hog-Wild Hamburger Vegetable Soup! 🍲❤️ Well, slap a lid on that soup pot and somebody find me a wooden spoon! It’s me again, Miss Sadie Mae Swine, and I’ve been investigatin’ a situation in my refrigerator. And honey, it wasn’t pretty. There sat half a container of cooked hamburger, a lonely…

  • Piggyback Potato Cakes

    Piggyback Potato Cakes

    Well, butter my biscuits and tickle my curly tail! Miss Sadie Mae’s been rootin’ around in the refrigerator again, and look what she found ~ a bowl of yesterday’s mashed taters just sittin’ there waitin’ for a second chance! Now, don’t you go tossin’ those taters out! With a little cheese, a couple of pantry…

  • 🥔 Tater~Trot Crispy Potato Cakes

    🥔 Tater~Trot Crispy Potato Cakes

    Sadie Mae opened the refrigerator, spotted a bowl of leftover mashed potatoes and nearly snorted. “Now hold on just one hoggone minute. Nobody’s throwin’ perfectly good taters to the chickens!” So she tossed in a little cheese, an egg and a few simple fixin’s, heated up the skillet and gave yesterday’s mashed potatoes a crispy…

  • 🍎🐷 Oink~a~Licious Apple Bread Puddin’

    🍎🐷 Oink~a~Licious Apple Bread Puddin’

    Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds Where leftovers get a second chance ~ and everybody wants seconds. Miss Sadie Mae opened the bread box this morning and found half a loaf sittin’ there lookin’ about as lively as a fence post. Too dry for a sandwich. Too good to throw away. Which, according to Sadie…

  • Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds ~ Hog-Wild Pizza Bread Pile-Up

    Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds ~ Hog-Wild Pizza Bread Pile-Up

    Where leftovers get a second chance ~ and everybody wants seconds. Well now, don’t go tossin’ those few lonely slices of bread just because they’re gettin’ a little stiff around the edges. Miss Sadie Mae says stale bread ain’t old. It’s just waitin’ on cheese. Today we’re rootin’ around for leftover bread, a little spaghetti…

  • 🌽🐷 Hog~Wild Cornbread Supper Pie

    🌽🐷 Hog~Wild Cornbread Supper Pie

    “Yesterday called wantin’ its leftovers back. I told ’em they were busy becoming supper.”  ~Miss Sadie Mae Swine Miss Sadie Mae has been rootin’ around the refrigerator again. And apparently she found half a bowl of leftover meat, some vegetables nobody was particularly excited about seeing for the second night in a row, and a…

  • Oink-a-Doodle Breakfast Biscuit Bake

    Oink-a-Doodle Breakfast Biscuit Bake

    Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds ~ Oink-a-Doodle Breakfast Biscuit Bake Where leftovers get a second chance~ and everybody wants seconds. Well, rise and shine, sleepyheads! Miss Sadie Mae has been rootin’ around the refrigerator again, and she found a few leftover biscuits, a little breakfast meat, some vegetables, and a handful of cheese just…

  • Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds~ Slop-It-Out Chicken Tater Toss

    Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds~ Slop-It-Out Chicken Tater Toss

    Miss Sadie Mae Swine’s Slop’in Seconds Slop-It-All-Out Chicken Tater Toss Where leftovers get a second chance ~ and everybody wants seconds. Well, pull open that refrigerator and take a good long look around! Miss Sadie Mae says there is no sense lettin’ perfectly good food sit there feelin’ forgotten. Today, we’re gatherin’ up leftover chicken,…

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