These aren’t recipes so much as ideas for assembling new dishes from traditional Thanksgiving leftovers. If you don’t have the items in the recipes you can easily substitute another item. Use your imagination and you should be able to turn these twenty ideas into forty or fifty recipes.
1. Thanksgiving Casserole
2. Mac n Cheese Stuffing Casserole
3. Roasted Veggies & Cheese
Mix together in an oiled baking dish Alfredo sauce, cooked veggies such as green beans or mushrooms and your choice of shredded cheese. Bake at 350 degreese for 30 minutes until hot and bubbly.
4. Turkey Pasta
5. Southwest Sloppy Joes
6. Turkey Chili
7. Turkey Cheese Wrap
Sprinkle shredded white cheese such as jack, gouda, provolone, or mozzarella onto a whole wheat tortilla. Heat in skillet until cheese is melted. Top with turkey. Drizzle with cranberry sauce or pesto. Roll and eat.
7. Veggie Cheese Wrap
Sprinkle shredded white cheese such as jack, gouda, provolone, or mozzarella onto a whole wheat tortilla. Heat in skillet until cheese is melted. Top with roasted veggies. Drizzle with cranberry sauce or pesto. Roll and eat.
8. Stuffing Sticks
Cook stuffing in a waffle iron until both sides are crispy. Cut into sticks. Dip in gravy or cranberry sauce.
9. Mashed Potato Pancake
Mix mashed potatoes, egg, shredded cheese. Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop onto preheated oiled skillet over medium-high heat. When underside is browned, flip and cook until the other side is browned also.
10. Veggie Pancake
Mix mashed root veggies, egg, shredded cheese. Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop onto preheated oiled skillet over medium-high heat. When underside is browned, flip and cook until the other side is browned also.
11. Veggie Waffle
Add mashed root veggies to pancake or waffle batter. These can be savory or sweet. Top with maple syrup, cranberry sauce, or gravy.
12. Gravy Soup
Mix in a saucepan gravy, boxed or canned broth, chopped leftovers, everything from turkey to veggies. Heat until hot.
13. Stuffing Soup
14. Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
15. Cranberry Smoothie
16. Cranberry Apple Smoothie
Buzz in a blender cranberry sauce, apple pie (minus the crust), eggnog.
17. Eggnog Smoothie
Buzz in a blender eggnog, fresh or frozen fruit.