No more turkey!

[jackoroe]

I just now finished the last bit of turkey from Thanksgiving. It was a nice heaping plate with Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing (carb overloading, I know), red cabbage, cranberry dressing and green beans. I really like turkey, but a week is about as much as I can stand of it.

Anybody else still eating leftovers? What'd you do to keep it interesting? I'm having steak tomorrow! No more leftovers!

 

[CGHJ]

Oh lord, I still got full thanksgiving dinners with all the fixin's for at least a week or more, and then turkey saniches for maybe 2 weeks after that. Good thing I love me some turkey.

 

[StationToStation]

I just now finished the last bit of turkey from Thanksgiving. It was a nice heaping plate with Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing (carb overloading, I know), red cabbage, cranberry dressing and green beans. I really like turkey, but a week is about as much as I can stand of it.

Anybody else still eating leftovers? What'd you do to keep it interesting? I'm having steak tomorrow! No more leftovers!

i like turkey too!

but that steak sounds great, organic local grass fed beef is so yummy. like butter . . .

luckily i always eat out on thanksgiving so no leftovers here

 

[boxerdudeuk]

Oh lord, I still got full thanksgiving dinners with all the fixin's for at least a week or more, and then turkey saniches for maybe 2 weeks after that. Good thing I love me some turkey.

wow. you made massive dishes considering how many guests you had, hey? was that on purpose or by accident?

 

[just_mills]

The last time I had turkey was on Christmas Day 2009. I have a pretty good feeling that the next time I eat it will be on Christmas Day 2010, lol.

 

[boxerdudeuk]

The last time I had turkey was on Christmas Day 2009. I have a pretty good feeling that the next time I eat it will be on Christmas Day 2010, lol.

i'm fine with eating it once a year as well. not my favourite thing in the world.

 

[frankfrank]

I cook a full turkey 2 or 3 times a year, not necessarily late in the year. Of course the "standard" meal applies, but also:

The leftover gravy or juices, and some "pulled turkey," go into noodle soup, often with a couple veggies, a liberal amount of pepper, along with some garlic and ground-up seaweed and oregano for seasoning.

OR: The same ingredients, thickened into a gravy with meat pieces in it, eaten with mashed potatoes or over slices of toast.

OR: Thickened into gravy, the same ingredients mixed into a boiled-up box of spaetzle. (Not all that different from noodles, actually.)

OR: The same ingredients, not thickened into gravy, mixed with couscous.

I usually have much more turkey left over than the amount of juices/gravy I have to "go around," so in those cases I freeze some to be used as a simple ingredient in something:

Some of the Thai stir-fry that I make out of a box sometimes - pad thai, etc.

I might add turkey to one of the vegetarian Indian dishes (which also come out of a box) - such as Madras lentils, spinach dal, etc.

Add to a salad

INCOMPLETE LIST, turkey is very versatile stuff...

 

[Joshua_me]

Alton loses me with the box of frozen mixed veggies, (the horror) - I'd use a couple of fresh zucchini and squash, thinly julienned-

But, this is the blueprint - the starting point - for *perfect* turkey soup.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9QvNtEftc[/ame]

 

[winterknight]

Turkey is evil and must be avoided at all costs.

Including at christmas.

 

[Beachguyj]

I threw my remaining leftovers on Sunday. I figured any more than 4 days might make me sick.

 

[star-warrior]

I had turkey last year at crimbo too. I was looking at the pattern the meat had and thought Giant's Causeway...

 

[alley]

I made our left over turkey into turkey and dumplings...had a bit of it for lunch today and then THREW out the last bit...free at last free at last!!!

 

[operafan]

Home-made turkey pot pies. Still have 4 left for the freezer.

 

[Swellegant]

We don't usually have a lot of leftovers, after all these years of having the exact same menu every frigging time, we know how to plan the portions... it's all gone within the next two days.

However, several years ago my sister got a half-dozen turkeys and a mountain of yams from the food bank, and we ate roast turkey and yams for months. Fortunately, I really like turkey.

One of our favorite things to do with the leftover turkey, stuffing, and yams was to put it in the food-processor with some hard-boiled eggs and cooked string-beans and puree it, then eat the mush like pate, on toast.

 

[just_mills]

i'm fine with eating it once a year as well. not my favourite thing in the world.

Oh no mate, don't get me wrong.. I love turkey; we just only seem to have it at Christmas.. Kind of makes it more special/enjoyable!

 

[boxerdudeuk]

Turkey is evil and must be avoided at all costs.

Including at christmas.

if i had my way, i'd do individual roasted guinea hens or something. i personally don't care for the flavour of a 25lb turkey. no matter what you do with it, the bird is so large that the farther away from the bone that the meat gets (i.e. breast meat) it's almost flavourless.

half my family would love to experiment on something a bit different for christmas but i think if we told my dad we were doing anything different from what is "tradition" in our family for christmas - he'd probably have a stroke.

 

[winterknight]

if i had my way, i'd do individual roasted guinea hens or something. i personally don't care for the flavour of a 25lb turkey. no matter what you do with it, the bird is so large that the farther away from the bone that the meat gets (i.e. breast meat) it's almost flavourless.

half my family would love to experiment on something a bit different for christmas but i think if we told my dad we were doing anything different from what is "tradition" in our family for christmas - he'd probably have a stroke.

Turkey is flavourless no matter *what* you do with it.

We generally have some sort of game. Mmm, venison.

If you want to stick with tradition, go with goose - what they had before turkeys were discovered.

 

[CGHJ]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through now. I have a stash in the freezer, and a pull enough out for a few days worth of saniches and dinner at a time. Believe it or not I love it so much I'm kinda freakin out that I'll be out soon.

Luckily I bought a whole nother frozen turkey when it was on sale for .57 a pound, so in a little bit I'll just make some more. Why only have turkey, stuffing, potatoes, green bean casserole and sweet potatoes only on holidays?! That's gonna be my new meal for 2011, I'm gonna have thanksgiving and leftovers every fucking month