Author: Rebecca

What to do with leftover turkey???

Usually we just eat it sliced along with the leftover stuffing and mashed potatoes, but once the stuffing and mashed potatoes are gone we start using the turkey in other ways.

We boil up the bones to make soup. Add onions, celery, frozen mixed vegetables and serve with rice or pasta. The kids usually like pasta better so we used alphabet pastas this time.

I also made turkey pot pies this time as well. I lined these baking cups and a jumbo muffin pan with pastry, then filled them with a creamy turkey sauce. Topped them with more pastry and baked them up. I think next time I’ll try making turkey pie pockets (that way I don’t have to mess with lining muffin cups again).

Now I’ve got a bit more turkey left and am wondering what else to do with it. Last year we tried a casserole with turkey and stuffing and maybe green beans, but I remember not liking that very much.

What do you do with turkey leftovers?

We put up our Christmas tree tonight! 🙂 Ok well really it’s our NEW Christmas tree. For years we have been talking about getting a bigger/taller Christmas tree for the main floor and using our old one in the basement (when it is finished someday) since we have vaulted ceilings on the main floor and the ceilings are lower in the basement. Well Kyle was out shopping on his way home from work one night and decided to check out the half price Christmas trees. And he decided to get a pre lit tree that is a bit taller and bigger than our current tree.

So we put it up so we could see it (and make sure it works). Then the kids were so upset when we told them that we needed to take it down to reclaim the living room, so we decided to take down our smaller tree. I think that was a better idea anyway since putting the smaller tree away meant putting away most of the ornaments too. 😀