leftover turkey

redmel1621

Hi

I got a small Turkey this year, 3.5, it said it serves 3-4 people... I made.....

Xmas dinner - family of 4
Boxing day - lunch sarnies x 3
Sat - Turkey dinner family of 4
Sun - Curry for me and dh, turkey and chips for the boys......

I can't believe the amount of meals I got out of it and never once felt like I was scrimping on any of them.

Mel x

beautiful_ravens

LOL - All these answers should go into a song -

Six Turkey sandwiches,
- Five Christmas dinners,
Four turkey curries,
Three turkey tikka's,
Two tubs of stock
and a small bag of frozen breast meat"

fedupfreda

Ummm, not very far - as our oven gave up the ghost on Xmas day..... :mad:

However I never even got as far as putting the turkey in the oven before I realised the oven was shot (well it is 15 years old...) so to rescue the situation I cut off the breasts and drumsticks, stuck the carcass, both drumsticks and 1 breast in the freezer, ended up cooking Xmas dinner on the hob, saute potatoes & parsnips instead of roast, veggies in the steamer, bacon rolls, chipolatas and stuffing balls under the grill - end result, Xmas dinner complete in record time :j and a sane cook on Xmas day - which is definitely a first for me but that might have been down to copious quantities of bucks fizz...;) mind you I only had 2 adults and 2 kids to cook for - god knows what I would have done if I had been expecting a houseful :eek:

Upshot is I have most of the turkey still left for another day - which is a good job as I am now looking around for a new oven so need to scrape together as much money as I can, so I think I won't need to buy any more meat for the rest of the month.

PS anyone know where I can find a good cheap oven????:o

*Maya*

God I really hope this is the last turkey thread until next year. :rolleyes:

Pink.

Hi pretani,

I've added your thread to the current one on using up leftover turkey to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Churchmouse

*Maya* wrote: »

God I really hope this is the last turkey thread until next year. :rolleyes:

So is it just me, really sad that I've used all my turkey?:o Wish I'd not been so sensible and bought a reasonable size, next year it's back to overcatering;)

thriftlady_2

*Maya* wrote: »

God I really hope this is the last turkey thread until next year. :rolleyes:

You don't have to read them

Great ideas here, especially if you aren't used to making food stretch and are trying to stop wasting food.

kunekune

We had a 4kg bronze turkey - yum. It supposedly would feed six. So far, we had xmas day and boxing day dinners for 4 (and I don't do 'all the trimmings' so there was a good sized meat portion - dh had a whole leg on xmas day)plus pickings for sandwiches. There are still 3 freezer containers of meat waiting for a day when we fancy turkey. I'll not do anything fiddly with them, just warmed up in gravy - packs of cooked roast meat are my version of the ready meal. I am embarrassed to say I forgot to use the carcass, chucked it in the bin and then thought - oops, what about stock!

Pretani

beautiful_ravens wrote: »

LOL - All these answers should go into a song -

Six Turkey sandwiches,
- Five Christmas dinners,
Four turkey curries,
Three turkey tikka's,
Two tubs of stock
and a small bag of frozen breast meat"

:rotfl: superb ♪♪♪♫♫♫

freebiequennie

fedupfreda wrote: »

Ummm, not very far - as our oven gave up the ghost on Xmas day..... :mad:

However I never even got as far as putting the turkey in the oven before I realised the oven was shot (well it is 15 years old...) so to rescue the situation I cut off the breasts and drumsticks, stuck the carcass, both drumsticks and 1 breast in the freezer, ended up cooking Xmas dinner on the hob, saute potatoes & parsnips instead of roast, veggies in the steamer, bacon rolls, chipolatas and stuffing balls under the grill - end result, Xmas dinner complete in record time :j and a sane cook on Xmas day - which is definitely a first for me but that might have been down to copious quantities of bucks fizz...;) mind you I only had 2 adults and 2 kids to cook for - god knows what I would have done if I had been expecting a houseful :eek:

Upshot is I have most of the turkey still left for another day - which is a good job as I am now looking around for a new oven so need to scrape together as much money as I can, so I think I won't need to buy any more meat for the rest of the month.

PS anyone know where I can find a good cheap oven????:o

freda where in country are you i am in leicester and someone at work is giving their cooker away its couple of years old and gas, it needs a good clean though apparently