Thanksgiving Leftovers - New Meals from Old

Thanksgiving is over and now you have a ton of leftovers. Either you cooked the turkey or whoever did sent you home with a fridge full.You may have leftover stuffing and potatoes. Even cranberry sauce and gravy.

How do you make these leftovers into tasty new meals?

Well I can’t promise to give you ideas for all of your leftovers but here are some great ideas for using that leftover turkey fare.

Turkey

• Turkey Pot Pie.
• Turkey Noodle Soup
• Turkey sandwiches
• Turkey tacos. Use chopped turkey instead of beef in your family favorite taco recipe.
• Turkey tetrazini. Chopped turkey and cooked noodles covered with gracy
• Turkey stock. Set your bones in your crockpot and cover with water. Cook on low all the day long. I’ve done this overnight. Very flavorful.
• Turkey and wild rice soup

Potatoes

• Potato Pancakes. My mom made these all the time when we were growing up. Mix potatoes, an egg, a little flower and salt and pepper to taste (after cooking of course). Fry in a little oil. Don’t deep fat fry. Pan fry.
• Potato salad (for unmashed potatoes)
• Topping for shepherd’s pie
• Make mashed potato soup
• You may have sweet potatoes. Use them to make a sweet potato pie.

Gravy

• Use in shepherd’s pie or turkey pot pie
• Use in turkey tettrazini

Stuffing

• Meatloaf Leanne of Saving Dinner fame has a meatloaf with stuffing recipe in her book Frantic Family Dinners. She uses dried stuffing but I just substituted our leftover stuffing and cut back on the liquid. So just use your leftover stuffing instead of your usual bread or oatmeal in your favorite meatloaf recipe.

Veggies

• My sister absoulutely hates leftover vegetables. I like them... I don’t know why. Anyway puree them and use to make a thick healthy soup.

This should give you some great ideas to use up those Thanksgiving leftovers.

Happy Eating!