The Day After (Leftover Turkey Recipes)

[Zenster]

So, what do you do with all that surplus tryptophan enriched goodness? Me;
White bread slathered with Best Food's Mayonnaise

Dill pickle slices

Smear of good mustard

Layer of white meat turkey
This is one of the principal reasons for buying a turkey in the first place. I call it Honky Soul Food™.
There is also the Southwestern Omelette:

White meat turkey

Roasted green chiles

Monterey Jack cheese

Avocado
And finally the killer sandwich:

Dark rye bread

Rare roast beef

White meat turkey

Lettuce

Light onion

Tomato

Cheddar cheese

Horseradish

Dill pickle

Heavy mustard

Heavy Best Food's Mayonnaise

Your suggestions please.

[PhiloVance]

Sound good, scrumptious even, however, the problem is no more white meat left. ;)

[Zenster]

Originally posted by PhiloVance
Sound good, scrumptious even, however, the problem is no more white meat left. ;) Next year, buy a bigger turkey!!!

[clayton_e]

dog food.

[TVeblen]

Quesadillas:

shave barest slivers of turkey

Plop flour tortilla into nonstick skillet
(even with wraps, raw tortillas are just wrong)
Barely brown; flop onto plate and set aside*.
Plop 2nd tortilla into skillet.
Immediately top with:
shaved turkey
grated white provolone, brick, Monterey Jack mild white cheese (or hell, cheddar'll do it)
**capers
spicy sprouts
minced, canned jalepenos
leftover minced olives
dash with good chili powder, dash of garlic salt
something tasty; turkey has the appeal of drywall

Top with tortilla lid; watch for browing and flip as needed for browning, melting.

* country mustard works; mayo doesn't cook well; use what complements what's you've thrown in there.

Plop on plate; slice into 6 wedges; serve warm. (avacodo slices and tomatilla salsa rock if you're puttin' on the dog.)


I have a not-bad recipe for turkey curry but it'll take time to dig it out. I dined on Spaghetti Carbonara with deep nod of thanks to Calvin Trillin.

[techchick68]

While I don't like turkey, especially white meat, you can make a turkey tetrazzini, the recipe calls for chicken but you could easily use turkey in it too considering the ingredients:

This is one of those recipes in my recipe box. I don't recall size of casserole dish or how many it serves, sorry about that.

Chicken Tetrazzini (use Turkey instead!)

1 pound chicken breast, cooked and chopped
1/2 - 1 cup celery, chopped
1/2 cup milk
1 can cream of mushroom soup or cream of celery soup
dollop of sour cream
1/2 onion, finely chopped
8 ounces cooked spaghetti
1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs

Preheat oven to 425ºF. Mix all ingredients and add a little salt and pepper together in a casserole dish. Sprinkle extra cheese and bread crumbs on top to form a crunchy layer -- not too much. About 30-40 minutes.

[betenoir]

Originally posted by clayton_e
dog food.


No,no no. Cat food. My cats are in heaven.

But for what they don't get:

Whole grain bread (although I'm thinking of just using the french bread we've got).

lettuce

honey and mustard

slice of apple

turkey.

[Annie-Xmas]

Put leftover turkey and stuffing in casserole dish. Moiston with leftover gravy, jar gravy, canned gravy, cream of whatever soup. Put in oven till hot.

[Fenris]

Take leftover rolls/bread

Take leftover cranberry stuff (relish, jelly, sauce)
Spread on bread
Cut up leftover turkey
Put on bread
Take leftover dressing/stuffing
Put on turkey
Put another slice of bread on top.

Meanwhile
Take leftover gravy
Heat
Dunk sammich in leftover gravy and eat

Yum!

And may I point everyone to SDMB Iron Chef, Big Battle Leftovers (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75472&pagenumber=2) for some wonderful ideas of what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers by Javamaven1 and Chef Troy?

Fenris

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Turkey a la King is one of my favourites, but I tend to make all kinds of turkey pies and freeze them for later, plus turkey soup.

Now I can't wait until Christmas - I didn't do a turkey on Thanksgiving this year (October 8 in Canada) so I missed out on all of that good stuff!

[Lute Skywatcher]

Spaghetti in tetrazzini? You've got to be kidding, techchick! Macaroni is the way to go.

My varient of a family recipe, handed down from my dad:

Three turkey legs. You'll have to guess at what the equivalent of this is for lefovers.
two cans of Campbell's cream of mushroom and roasted garlic soup.
16oz. macaroni.
8oz. cooked peas.
8oz. slivered almonds.
4 cups grated cheddar cheese

Combine the first five ingredients and half the cheese and pour into a 13x9x2" pan. Cover with other half of cheese. Cook at 425ºF for 30-45 minutes. Serves about 8.

If you'd like to try this without any leftovers around, get a package of three turkey legs. Place the legs in a large pot of boiling water. When the legs are done, the meat should peel away from the bone. Take the legs out and cook the macaroni in the remaining liquid.

[Lute Skywatcher]

While I was editing, I lost the "cooked" that was supposed to preceed "macaroni." :)

[techchick68]

Spaghetti in tetrazzini? You've got to be kidding, techchick! Macaroni is the way to go.

In my entire life I have never known a "tetrazzini" dish made with macaroni, ever. Even Stouffers (ya know those frozen food people) make their tetrazzini with spaghetti. Shoot even Gourmet magazine has a recipe for Turkey Tetrazzini and a Chicken Tetrazzini recipe, both of which use spaghetti.

http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=13377

http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=11053

Jeff, your family is just nuts! ;)

[Lute Skywatcher]

All I know is if I ever tried to pass off a spaghetti dish as "tetrazzini" to my gourmand neighbor, I'd hear no end of it! :) What does she base her opinions on? The cooking of her grandmother, a French immigrant. She even complained when I forgot the peas once!

[Lynn Bodoni]

Eh, turkey pot pies and turkey soup, after all the turkey sandwiches. IF the cat will allow us to eat any more of HER turkey, that is. She's getting pretty fed up with us eating it. It's HERS, she says. HERS!

Seriously, I think that my daughter would eat at least one homemade turkey pot pie a week, if I wanted to make them that often. The female cat, Sapphire, would be happy to live off of turkey and tuna for the rest of her life. The male cat likes his Friskies kibble, though.

[MovieMogul]

Who needs a freaking recipe? Just EAT EAT EAT!!!

[Zenster]

[moderator @ss kissing]

Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni
Eh, turkey pot pies...[/B]

Brilliant idea, why didn't I think of that!

[/moderator @ss kissing]

::scurries off to buy pie crusts::

[Soul Brother Number Two]

*buy* pie crusts?!?!

[Rayne Man]

To hi-jack the slogan of an animal rescue charity about not buying dogs as Christmas presents " Remember a turkey is for life and not just for Christmas "

[Athena]

The turkey carcass is in the stock pot right now, simmering away. Tonight's dinner will be turkey pot pie - turkey meat, peas, carrots, taters and pearl onions, covered with gravy made from the aforementioned turkey stock thickened with a little flour, and a crust made of biscuits. Yummmmm!

[WEW]

Turkey and Dumplings. Simmer the carcass for a couple of hours, and make home made sheets of pasta with the turkey stock. Cook until tender and delcious. Yum.

[bouv]

I watced Emeril last night (or was it the night before?) and he had a leftover show. All the recipies were made from Thanksgiving leftovers. Of course, some of his leftovers are things I don't normally have at Thanksgiving, or for that matter have even heard of! :confused:

[Zenster]

Originally posted by essvee
*buy* pie crusts?!?! Yes, buy pie crusts. My kitchen is being remodeled right now and making pie crust from scratch is just not at the top of my to do list.

[Jester]

Jester's Unnecessarily Large Leftover Sandwich

1 Slice of toasted white bread

1 Pile of reheated leftover turkey

Cranberry Sauce, served chilled and applied liberally

1 slice of toasted white bread

Another pile of reheated leftover turkey

Reheated mashed potatos, applied liberally as an adhesive for all that turkey

Gravy, reheated and applied liberally

1 slice of toasted white bread

Mmmmmmmmm.....Note that this is probably the first and last time I will ever post to a recipe thread.

[Max Torque]

As a big fan of Alton Brown, I feel I must post this link to the recipes from his Thanksgiving leftovers show, The Remains of the Bird (http://www.foodtv.com/foodtv/episode/0,6283,EA1C14,00.html).

[Athena]

Not quite turkey, but close: I had a huge pile of leftover sweet potatos. Very yummy taters, but I knew we weren't gonna eat them all in the next few days. Took a look at the freezer - completely full. OK, what to do with taters? I had a vague memory of seeing some sort of recipe for Sweet Potato Quick Bread somewhere, but a search of the web came up with nothing. I do, however, have my mother's deee-licious banana bread recipe. Bananas? Sweet Potatos? Same thing. I made the recipe and put the sweet taters in instead of the mushy bananas, and it's incredibly good. Very moist & sweet. If anyone wants the recipe, email me or post here, I don't have the recipe with me at work, but I can post it from home later.

[Lynn Bodoni]

I should probably mention that my husband and daughter are very fond of ANY sort of homemade pot pie, and when I make a roast, I try to get a big enough chunk of meat in the first place to make a couple of pot pies later. Beef, turkey, chicken, tuna...all make excellent pot pies, though usually I will only make them in cooler weather. I don't turn on the oven in the summertime if I can help it.

I have to admit that I use frozen pie crusts. I have NEVER been able to make a decent pie crust, and Pet-Ritz is better than mine. There, I said it. Still, my pot pies are quite edible, even yummy, no matter what the base.

[Zenster]

Dear Lynn,

I am baking off a turkey pot pie (made with dark meat and home made gravy) even as I type this post.

Yours Truly,

Zenster


PS: Thanks for reminding me of this most savory comfort food. I almost went Shepherd's Pie on them and did the top crust with mashed potatoes.

[AbbySthrnAccent]

After several sandwiches, I used the last of our turkey in "Chicken" Enchilada's tonight.

In the past we've also done turkey pot pie, turkey and dumplings, and turkey leftover casserole (where you mix the leftover stuffing, meat, and gravy and top with left over mashed potatoes and French's fried onions and heat in the oven til bubbly).