So you can imagine Uly and I were quite proud of ourselves this year for really utilizing our Thanksgiving leftovers. First, we ate the turkey w/ all the fixings again for lunch the next day. Then we ate some leftover beef stew for dinner.
We took a break on Saturday, but on Sunday we got a bit more creative with our leftovers. For lunch, we made 2 kinds of turkey sandwiches! Mine is more of the "typical" post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich, with turkey breast meat, gravy, and cranberry sauce on baguette. Uly made a croissant sandwich "California style" with turkey breast meat, red onions, lettuce, and avocado. We even each had 2 more sandwiches for lunch on Monday!
Had some leftover bourbon-pumpkin cheesecake and a glass of sherry as an afternoon snack.
And for dinner, we had turkey pot pie! We had previously boiled the carcass to make turkey stock, and used this as a base for our turkey soup. Added some celery, carrots, herbs, and macaroni, then topped it with some puff pastry. Since we were too lazy to go get real butter puff pastry, we used the oil-based one made by Pepperidge Farms. It's not as good and buttery as the real stuff, but it did the trick for the pot pie and went really well with the soup. For our wine, we drank some Thomas Fogarty Pinot Noir that we got from passport day the week before.
I wonder what else we can do with our leftovers next year...
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