Have you sorted any Xmas leftovers?

Grande tante I had to think but then laughed out loud, those horrid Latin lessons!

Massive pot of turkey-carcass stock made the other day, so instead of anything fancy tonight we’ll be having a soup of that, crammed with goodness knows how many veg - including the last few sprouts off the ‘stick’.
Luckily dh is always up for anything similar.

All the remaining meat is in meal-sized packets in the freezer.

we chopped up turkey, ham, languishing leftover veg, sprouts, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips, stuffing balls, apple sauce, stray pigs in blankets, in a buttered pyrex dish, completely. blanketed in a cheese sauce made with medium cheddar, left over creams, end of bottle of jersey milk, into oven 20 mins, with crispy rolls from freezer, served with fresh broccolli, yum, so tasty, not a meal I would make deliberately, like bubble and squeak.
Then we made huge salads for our evening meal. The girls went home with odds and ends, lemons, limes, biscuits, wine,
etc.

I opened the door yesterday to a clean sparse fridge, like Old Mother Hubbard, raided freezer, start the diet on Monday.

I sometimes freeze left over veg and use them to make soup at a later date.

The rest of the roast has been divided into three parts (like Gaul) and eaten by us, eaten by the cats, sliced or chopped and put into the freezer with what remains of the gravy.

Dessert eaten up.

After 50 odd years of planning and keeping Christmas, I no longer cook more than I know we either can eat or freeze for later.

Turkey & ham pie tonight, 3 of the puddings have completely vanished but we're still working on the trifle. May have to freeze the choc brownies and mincepies today. My husband doesn't generally like leftovers - but won't grumble too much if it's turkey & ham.I did throwout some cooked veggies, I just craved some space in the larder & fridge after days of juggling! but we'd eaten 90% of them & I composted all the peelings.

Quite an interesting thread. We don't 'over-cook' for Christmas, all leftover bits are easily frozen for use in the next week.

All sorted! Turkey crown to finish with some ham slices and the remains of a game pie. I doubt we shall save much for the freezer except the makings of a curry or casserole.

Christmas has hardly started in this household. DD has been with us since the 23rd, but DS and family do not arrive until this afternoon for a week's stay, having spent Christmas with DDiL's family this year.

Tomorrow we have a second Christmas lunch, with Christmas pie (a pie filled with everything you have on Christmas day, turkey, ham , stuffing, sprouts, roast potatoes, gravy) followed by Christmas pudding etc. After that the appetite for 'refreshing' turkey sandwiches, salads, curries and fricassees mean that there will be little left to pack into the freezer to help us through the lean month of January.

Not yet, but I will today. I've no hope of starting a diet yet as there is so much to use up!

Ours has been demolished by the family. We are left with cheese, crackers and crisps. This means we may have to go to the supermarket today.

We had Christmas day on our own this year the first in 26 years so we didn’t buy too much food. I have some duck and pork left which will make a dinner tonight. We ate snacks yesterday as we had visitors. Our duck carcass is in the freezer ready to flavour a soup. The only thing we didn’t have was the nice choice of cheeses that’s being saved for New Year.

My problem is the Christmas goodies, cake, chocolates, mince pies etc. They tempt me everytime I go in the kitchen. Should I just be greedy and eat up quickly or spread out over several days. Some things not opened will go to food bank collection in the supermarket.

We've had a BD buffet which saw off some of the Christmas leftovers, but has created some of its own. If the children don't take it away when they leave tomorrow I will make Christmas pies (chicken, ham, veg and cranberry) and freeze them.

Can't stand leftover turkey- one reason we chose not to have one. Sheperd's pie tomorrow with left over veg and leg of lamb, with salad.

Beef curry tomorrow to use the last of the joint. Gammon never even got cooked so we'll have that for New Year. Cooked veg all fried up for bubble and squeak and poached eggs today. Leek and potato soup made and frozen. Rest of leeks will go in a leek pudding to have with some (frozen) steak and mushroom in a couple of days. Not much left in our kitchen to show it is Christmas.

We refrigerate or freeze food after meals.

Dealing with all leftovers is part of tidying in our home. Put up foods, run the dishwasher, and then place clean dry dishes back in cupboards.

Never have any problems disposing of the Christmas broken meats. I have so many recipes. Cooked turkey can be used in any recipe requiring chicken cooked or raw(shorten cooking time). I make stock from the carcass and giblets and then stock. I have lots of ham stock from boiling the gammon and the same with ham as with turkey, there are lots of recipes of all kinds using pasta - or google turkey/ham recipes and get hundreds.

You do not need training in food hygiene to know that as long as cold meat is reheated to a boiling temperature for several minutes all but a few rare pathogens will be killled. I have been doing it throughout my adult life and not only has everyone survived. They are positively thriving.

Anything leftover goes in the freezer and will be used sometime between now and Easter.

Witzend 😆 🥧 🥧 🥧

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Talking of turkey - there was absolutely no shortage despite the dire warnings.

I was stricken with the lurgy in the week running up to Xmas and did a last-minute shop on the 23rd - M&S was packed to the gills with free range turkey products and I hear that on Xmas Eve they were selling them 50% off!

A friend of mine with 4 huge Newfoundland dogs, used to go shopping late on Christmas Eve just to buy slashed-price turkeys for the freezer - which she’d later cook for the dogs!

They were lovely gentle dogs, who used to demonstrate at shows their instinct for saving people from drowning.
RIP all four now. 🐶 ❤️ - alas not a very long-lived breed.

Leftover veg mashed for bubble tonight with cold turkey, gammon and stuffing. Daughter will call in tomorrow to take some gammon and the grandchildren can share out the tree chocolates.
There’ll be turkey curry later in the week and a pie made, some or both will be frozen.

That isn’t just allowed on Boxing Day, Grannynannywanny, it’s positively normal!

Talking of turkey - there was absolutely no shortage despite the dire warnings.

I was stricken with the lurgy in the week running up to Xmas and did a last-minute shop on the 23rd - M&S was packed to the gills with free range turkey products and I hear that on Xmas Eve they were selling them 50% off!

I've just enjoyed a turkey sandwich with mint sauce

I’m embarrassed to say I had 2 mince pies and a dollop of left over whipped double cream for breakfast. I’ve just had a dose of gaviscon for lunch.