Turkey Left-Overs Don't Have To Just Be Sandwiches

1. BBQ Turkey Mix sliced, diced or shredded cooked turkey with your favorite bar-b-que sauce.
    
2. Turkey Enchiladas Mix diced turkey with sour cream (or plain yogurt), cheese and salsa. Roll mixture into flour tortillas, set in a baking dish and cover with more salsa or enchilada sauce and cheese. Bake at 350 until cheese on top is melted and ingredients are hot — about 45 minutes. This is a family favorite.
    
3. Turkey Parmesan Take diced or sliced cooked turkey and generously mix with spaghetti sauce. Spread evenly in a baking dish and top with shredded mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.
    
4. Turkey Soup Once the turkey is carved and most of the meat removed from the carcass — don’t toss it out. We take all the bones, wrap them up in the tenting foil and save them in the freezer for later use. When ready, fill a large pot with eight quarts of water, add the turkey bones along with onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, salt and pepper. Boil on high for at least one hour. With a slotted spoon remove the bones and dispose of them. Add ingredients such as celery, carrot, mixed veggies and small pasta for a delicious soup. If you want to learn a quick method for cooking a turkey read this article.

TURKEY FACTS

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more that 45 million turkeys are cooked in the U.S. on Thanksgiving Day with over 525 million pounds of turkey meat being consumed. That’s 1.8 pounds of turkey for every — man, woman and child (there are no figures available for how much is consumed by begging pets — but we’re sure it is considerable). Ninety percent of American homes serve turkey on Thanksgiving and fifty percent serve it again on Christmas.

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Nov/Dec 05

Turkey Stuffin’ No Bluffin’   6 family favorite stuffing recipes passed down over several generations — plus one family’s holiday favorite, egg noodle recipe.

Turkey Roastin’ and Boastin’   A Fast and Easy way to cook a turkey plus four simple recipes for using up that delicious leftover turkey meat — and we're not just talkin’ turkey sandwiches.

January 04

The Great Turkey Hunt of ‘03   How did you fare this Thanksgiving? We bagged over 167.2 pounds of Turkey for a paltry sum . . .  without even firing a shot.

Nov / Dec 03

The Great Turkey Hunt 139.2 lbs. of turkey for only $41.35 - that was our take in 2002. We explain how we did it and if it was ethical.