The Thanksgiving Leftover Thread....

[MossRoad]

The party's over. The fat lady sang. You made 28 pounds of meat for 8 people. What to do with the leftovers?

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Here's one... Turkey Pot Pie

Get some of those frozen pie crusts. Lay one in a pie pan. Dump in some chunked up turkey, a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, a can of cream of chicken soup and put the other pie crust on top. Pinch the edges, cut a couple vent slits. Bake. Enjoy!

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[Bird]

Sounds like a good recipe. I do like chicken or turkey pot pies but haven't tried making them. But we only had 10 pounds each of turkey and ham for 8 people and made sure when they left that they took enough home with them for a couple of days.:laughing:

 

[mjarrels]

Wife fixed a very large meatloaf for thanksgiving evening meal. Cold meatloaf sandwiches for the next couple days. We went to a local buffet for thanksgiving noon meal, so no leftover turkey/trimings.

mark

 

[MossRoad]

Turkey soup!

As soon as I finished piecing out the bird, I snapped the carcass in half, put all the bones, skins, bits and pieces, etc... into a large pot and poured all the juice, carrots, celery, onions, etc... in as well. Added a couple cups of water and let it simmer down for a couple hours. Put it in the fridge overnight. Next day, take it out, scrape the layer of congealed fat off the top and discard. Put it back on the stove just long enough to liquefy. Pour through a strainer into another pot. Retrieve the carrots and meat chunks from the strainer and add to the strained stock. Put back on the stove, add 1/2 a carton of chicken stock and season with onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, salt and pepper. Add a half a bag of skinny noodles and cook until tender. Serve.

 

[mapper]

Add some curry powder or paste to the pot pie and you have one of my family's favorites.
And for that leftover stuffing, cook it in a waffle iron until crispy. Serve with leftover gravy, not the healthiest treat but it's only once a year.

 

[dragoneggs]

Turkey soup!

As soon as I finished piecing out the bird, I snapped the carcass in half, put all the bones, skins, bits and pieces, etc... into a large pot and poured all the juice, carrots, celery, onions, etc... in as well. Added a couple cups of water and let it simmer down for a couple hours. Put it in the fridge overnight. Next day, take it out, scrape the layer of congealed fat off the top and discard. Put it back on the stove just long enough to liquefy. Pour through a strainer into another pot. Retrieve the carrots and meat chunks from the strainer and add to the strained stock. Put back on the stove, add 1/2 a carton of chicken stock and season with onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, salt and pepper. Add a half a bag of skinny noodles and cook until tender. Serve.

We have two pots of turkey soup on the range as I speak. BIL and SIL coming over in a few... one batch of soup is getting jazzed up with allspice and curry! Lots of good stock came from the turkey carcass and vegetables. I like leek a lot and we are using some of the trailings to add to the stock as well.

 

[4570Man]

We eat them for lunch for the next several days. When whatever is left gets too old to eat we feed it to the dog.

 

[/pine]

Turkey tetrazzini and turkey chop suey are our favorites (after the sandwich meat is gone...)
Leftover ham is for sandwiches, omelets and with eggs (replaces bacon or sausage until it's gone)...even better with home fries and onions...!

 

[MossRoad]

Turkey a la king!

Just find your favorite chicken ala king recipe and substitute turkey! :licking:

 

[MossRoad]

Ham and cheese sliders!

Get some small hamburger buns. Take some soft butter or margarine and mix in some yellow mustard (or honey mustard) to make a smooth spread. Finely chop a sweet onion and mix it into the spread. Spread it on the top of a hamburger bun. Sprinkle some caraway seeds onto the spread. Lay a slice of swiss cheee on that. Add some ham and put the bottom of the bun on. Turn it right-side up and wrap in foil. Place it in a 350 oven for about 15 minutes. Take out, unwrap and serve. :licking:

 

[MossRoad]

Turkey a la king!

Just find your favorite chicken ala king recipe and substitute turkey! :licking:

My wife informs me the ala king recipe is also the filling for the pot-pie! So its a two-for recipe! :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Turkey a la king!

Just find your favorite chicken ala king recipe and substitute turkey! :licking:

My wife informs me the ala king recipe is also the filling for the pot-pie! So its a two-for recipe! :laughing:

 

[Terry1040]

Well the 2 turkeys that we took to my daughters house were left there along with the pan. Pan was returned clean ! No left overs ! But, I was given a bag of very good turkey meat from my daughter-in-law. So have been enjoying that, along with other leftovers. I can live on leftovers, so I never mind !

 

[om21braz]

Here we were fortunate to have a great deep-fried turkey and ham along with plenty of trimmings. After my fourth meal (fifth if you include a sandwich meal) it pretty much got cleaned out today after we invited friends over for lunch. Did freeze turkey legs and a little extra meat for a later dish of turkey dumplings.

 

[SDiver40]

Made up 9 pies last night myself. Left overs from a trash can turkey.

 

[dragoneggs]

Made up 9 pies last night myself. Left overs from a trash can turkey. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/rural-living/448884-thanksgiving-leftover-thread-20151128_195635-jpg"/>

Nice!!!

 

[Bird]

Yesterday evening, I had a big thick turkey sandwich which finished the turkey, we each had a piece of pumpkin pie which finished the desserts, then my wife chopped up the last of the ham, and I just now put that, a package of chopped onion, salt & pepper in the crock pot with a pound of cranberry beans that had been soaking overnight. Of course, I'll make cornbread to go with it later today.

So that's the end of the Thanksgiving food.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yesterday evening, I had a big thick turkey sandwich which finished the turkey, we each had a piece of pumpkin pie which finished the desserts, then my wife chopped up the last of the ham, and I just now put that, a package of chopped onion, salt & pepper in the crock pot with a pound of cranberry beans that had been soaking overnight. Of course, I'll make cornbread to go with it later today.

So that's the end of the Thanksgiving food.

Never heard of Cranberry beans before, but then there's a lot of things I'm not familiar with. If you like beans, you might try the Anasazi beans. We've never used any other kind since we discovered them. Not available everywhere, but becoming more popular. We used to have to buy them at these snobby specialty foods places, but local grocery store has them and they are available on line.

Why are they so good? They result in practically no gas production (worth the money just for this reason), they cook up twice as fast and they don't hurt my stomach. No, I don't have an interest in the company, but I do like the beans.

 

[Bird]

Never heard of Cranberry beans before

I can sure understand that. Shortly after I married a West Virginia gal over 50 years ago, she told me she and her family preferred "October beans" over pinto beans, and I'd never heard of "October beans" and never saw any in our grocery stores. It's only been in the last 10 or 15 years that I learned "October beans" are better known as "Cranberry beans". Where they came up with that name, I'll probably never know, since they have nothing to do with cranberries. But in recent years, the Kroger's grocery stores have the one pound packages of Cranberry beans; only place I know of to get them.

The Cranberry beans are very much like Pinto beans; and only slightly more expensive. They are also supposedly slightly sweeter than Pintos. Personally, I wouldn't bet that most folks would know the difference.