How many ways can you fix Turkey Leftovers

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Well it has been almost a week since "Thanksgiving" or Turkey Holiday and we finally ground up the leftover turkey and made "Turkey Salad". Boy do we have a big bowl of sandwich spread made up. Just want to know what did you do with your leftovers?
 
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Put the carcus left over after carving into a soup pot
Add, carrots, celery, parsnip, onion, salt and pepper
Cover with water
Slow boil for 2 1/2 hours

Pour off a great turkey soup
 
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How many ways can you fix Turkey Leftovers
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I was going too and got busy .....so

Turkey ala King is always good or Turkey pot pie

but my favorite i making Club sandwiches turky on the botton and BLT on top any thing goes better with BACON :)
 
Turkey curry salad, dice up the turkey, mix in sliced almonds, golden raisins, mayo, and curry to taste. Add a little celery and you're good to go!
 
turkey risotto:

cook carcass and make broth.....
(brown/bake to darken, add veggies, boil)

strain broth and take meat off bones and reserve

make risotto with broth and add meat

(fry lightly the rice in oil for a few minutes,
then add fine chopped veggies....celery, onions
add broth a bit at at time, stirring very often
add meat at end, so as not to disintergrate....
add some paremesan, maybe some chopped
parseley or peas for color)

rice can be cooked al dente to soft, as you prefer

also holds well as left overs too
 
I went the opposite route and deep fried a smaller turkey this year.
 
Beats me. We had a turkey and two porkettas. Nobody touched the turkey except my wife, who had insisted on it. My kid and all of hers went for the porketta.

My son-in-law echoed my own sentiments when he announced at the table, "We didn't really need the turkey. The porketta is so much better, and there is plenty of it." But the look on my wife's face prompted me to intervene, in my deepest, most authoritative voice: "You know, the turkey is still important. It is the traditional Thanksgiving dish, and we are all about maintaining tradition." Truth be told, I could skip the mashed potatoes in favor of a nice linguini carbonara, too.

I was looking forward to leftover porketta, since we barely touched the second roast, but those darn kids took the whole thing home. I have to give those girls credit, though. While the meal was being readied for the table, they kept bringing me out choice bits of the crust and cracklin's. I knew then I had done my part to raise them up right.
 
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I Put all of the leftovers in a very large bowl and fill with enough water for a soup consistency. Let it stand at room temperature for a few days, and use the mix in my hog traps. They love it, and I always have pork in the freezer.
 
To start with we send left overs home with guests.

Saturday I put the carcass in a big pot and cooked it down and made a good soup from it. We had that a couple meals and put the rest in vacuum sealer bags in the freezer along with left over dressing.
Those will be nice later for those quick and easy meals when you have nothing else to eat.

We always get a few meals from a turkey.
 
There were just enough leftovers for some nice cold turkey sandwiches.....

The rest is gone.
:D
 
My wife recycled some of it into turkey enchiladas, plus some soup and a few other goodies.
 
No matter how many leftovers we have, it's not enough for me; they're gone altogether too soon. And the carcass makes wonderful turkey soup.
 
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