Any recipe for Thanksgiving leftovers?

[ctadmin]

Share your favorite leftover recipes - cold turkey straight from the fridge? How about for soup or sandwiches?

 

[Ky hills]

My mother wasn’t much on eating turkey, but the leftover turkey she’d fix a couple different ways and would eat it. I called it the 12 days of turkey. (Not literally for 12 days of course, but we got good mileage out of it.
We’d have just sliced cold turkey with whatever other leftovers for supper. Maybe turkey sandwiches the next day for dinner. Then she’d either make turkey salad for sandwiches or one of my favorites turkey hash. For turkey hash she’d cut up the turkey in fairly small pieces and put in a gravy. We’d eat that over bread, mashed potatoes or leftover cornbread and biscuit dressing.
There’s another Kentucky traditional dish that we didn’t eat at home, just at restaurants, called hot browns. Hot brown is supposed to be leftover turkey and country ham slices over toast topped with a cream sauce, cheese bacon and tomato.

 

[Dave]

I learned years ago to take pie to family get togethers like Thanksgiving. Take a salad etc, if there are left overs you have to take them home. Take pie if there are left overs you get to take it home. You can take another of your favorite other than pie but I really like pie.

 

[4hfarms]

We wrap it in bacon, there are no leftovers.

 

[dave_shelby]

no recipes here, we just pull it out of fridge and eat. my mom used to make a ham and pineapple pudding the Friday after which also provided ham biscuits for leftovers the remainder of the weekend.

 

[jltrent]

Leftovers are not the problem it is getting everybody together. One family member can't make it this day another can't make it that day etc. From Wednesday all the way through Sunday at least one family member can't make one of those days. Got the Turkey thawed to fix on Thursday, and it may be ruined by the time it is cooked Sunday. There may be a whole Turkey that the dogs get uncooked for leftovers.

 

[WalkerRanch 3-2]

If you like chick&dumplings, turkey makes great bird & dumplings. Also freeze some chunks to make turkey soup like you would make chicken soup for when you are sick. Tame or wild, turkey makes good eats more than one meal.

 

[Mrcopier]

Leftovers are not the problem it is getting everybody together. One family member can't make it this day another can't make it that day etc. From Wednesday all the way through Sunday at least one family member can't make one of those days. Got the Turkey thawed to fix on Thursday, and it may be ruined by the time it is cooked Sunday. There may be a whole Turkey that the dogs get uncooked for leftovers.

We had that problem till we just set a date and they either came or not

 

[ctadmin]

My mother wasn’t much on eating turkey, but the leftover turkey she’d fix a couple different ways and would eat it. I called it the 12 days of turkey. (Not literally for 12 days of course, but we got good mileage out of it.
We’d have just sliced cold turkey with whatever other leftovers for supper. Maybe turkey sandwiches the next day for dinner. Then she’d either make turkey salad for sandwiches or one of my favorites turkey hash. For turkey hash she’d cut up the turkey in fairly small pieces and put in a gravy. We’d eat that over bread, mashed potatoes or leftover cornbread and biscuit dressing.
There’s another Kentucky traditional dish that we didn’t eat at home, just at restaurants, called hot browns. Hot brown is supposed to be leftover turkey and country ham slices over toast topped with a cream sauce, cheese bacon and tomato.

I gagged at the 12 days of turkey. lol

 

[ctadmin]

I learned years ago to take pie to family get togethers like Thanksgiving. Take a salad etc, if there are left overs you have to take them home. Take pie if there are left overs you get to take it home. You can take another of your favorite other than pie but I really like pie.

Right, everyone leaves with something.

 

[ctadmin]

no recipes here, we just pull it out of fridge and eat. my mom used to make a ham and pineapple pudding the Friday after which also provided ham biscuits for leftovers the remainder of the weekend.

Or just heat it the microwave.

 

[ctadmin]

Leftovers are not the problem it is getting everybody together. One family member can't make it this day another can't make it that day etc. From Wednesday all the way through Sunday at least one family member can't make one of those days. Got the Turkey thawed to fix on Thursday, and it may be ruined by the time it is cooked Sunday. There may be a whole Turkey that the dogs get uncooked for leftovers.

It does become difficult to have everyone especially with family members who work on holidays or are far away.

 

[ctadmin]

If you like chick&dumplings, turkey makes great bird & dumplings. Also freeze some chunks to make turkey soup like you would make chicken soup for when you are sick. Tame or wild, turkey makes good eats more than one meal.

Good idea. Have them cubed or shredded.

 

[ctadmin]

We had that problem till we just set a date and they either came or not

That's what we do now too. Most of the time, only one or two couldn't make it.

 

[Ouachita]

One year my wife bought a couple big bags of cranberries and made the sauce herself. There was enough left over I made wine.

 

[Ky hills]

I gagged at the 12 days of turkey. lol

It’s not that long, just the play on words of the 12 days of Christmas. I’ve got a cut off of about 4 days on anything, unless it’s frozen fairly soon after the first serving. About died from food poisoning several years ago so definitely don’t want to chance anything.