The Christmas leftovers ideas thread

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What are your favourite recipes for using up Christmassy foods?

We like turkey curry and I do the Jamie Oliver turkey, leek and bacon pie. I make a mean meatloaf with sausagemeat, bacon, mince and onions.

My grandfather always ate cold Christmas pudding in a sandwich for Boxing Day lunch- I think I would have liked him a lot! I've stirred pudding into ice cream before, but we often throw the last bit away

What do you do with the rest of your turkey/ goose/ sausagemeat/ swan? How about all those extra vegetables?

monnagran

Ah! My family's favourite. Remnant Pie.

Simply gather together any leftover turkey, ham, s ausagemeat, stuffing, mix or layer it into a pastry case with layers of cranberry sauce, bread sauce, onion sauce....whatever seems to be littering up your fridge. Slap a pastry lid on and cook until the pastry is cooked. Serve hot with veg or cold with salad, coleslaw or pickles.

Everyone loves it.

x

freyasmum

Our main meal leftovers go very nicely into par-baked baguettes. Stuffing balls, pigs in blankets, even some carrots and a spoonful of gravy is all fair game - particularly with a pot of tea at silly o'clock on boxing day morning :rotfl:

The turkey bones and remaining meat and veg then go into a pot to make soup :j

Puddings are eaten as is... but we don't have Christmas pudding. We usually have trifle, cheesecake or gateaux.

PasturesNew

I've worked it out to the sprout how big dinner needs to be and I'll cook precisely how much I need

Except the turkey, which is a "serves 4". That'll probably be a few "nicked bits" eaten cold by me opening the fridge door and reaching in ... and maybe a curry.

I've got some ready rolled pastry so I can whip up a quick quiche on a whim.

And/or anything can be nuked and plonked on top of small Yorkshires, or inside a giant Yorkshire ... with lashings of gravy.

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We always have Bubble and Squeak with cold sliced meat and pickles for lunch on Boxing Day in fact I think we all enjoy this meal more than the actual Christmas Lunch! We don't often have Christmas Pudding but on those odd occasions that we have and there has been some left I've made a Christmas Pudding Souflee with a meringue base of whisked egg whites and icing sugar and the pudding crumbled and folded in along with a couple of tablespoons of brandy. Takes minutes to cook in the oven and is light and delicious to eat.

Prinzessilein

We don't have that many leftovers - but deliberately cook enough for a couple of leftover meals...

Any remaining stuffing goes into my Boxing Day lunch treat - stuffing sarnies.

Veggies get curry-spices mixed in and then get used as a filling for a toasted sandwich (we call them curry-puffs, a bit like a poor man's samosa) - terrific as a quick meal whilst watching a film.

Mince Pies get turned into a mincemeat crumble with loads of custard.

Franalamadingdong

I accidentally (online) ordered a HUGE brie last year. Cue the creation of the turkey, brie and cranberry relish toastie
So good!

MallyGirl

we prefer the leftovers. There were 5 adults and 1 teen last year - and I bought a 7kg turkey which should feed 12-14 Same size this year but we do have 7 adults and 1 teen this time round

suki1964

Omg left overs are the best bit about Christmas dinner

I too go for the Jamie Oliver pie, not to the latter, but with whatever I have

Bubble and squeak is also a must have in this house, served with the cold ham

Then there's ham egg and chips

Turkey and stuffing panini's

We also don't mind having Christmas dinner twice to use up what we have

This year I'm doing a goose as well. So turkey, goose and a ham, won't need to have the oven on again for at least a week

purpleybat

cold turkey, chips and (now homemade) pickles is traditional for boxing day lunch. I still have and use the old enamel chip pan mum used (getting choked)
more leftovers for salad and pick tea.
I love turkey, I'm happy with the chopped leftovers in my freezer to use up.
cos ive bought a small bird itd be rude not to use bones for stock, with goose crown bones

LameWolf

We don't have leftovers. There's only the two of us, and I just do the amount we need, same as always. As we're Pagan, our main celebration is on the Solstice (ie Wednesday) and I'll be doing Qu0rn fillets poshed up with HM white wine sauce and something inventive with Feta cheese (free with a T£sco coupon) and roast root veggies (neither of us likes sprouts, so we don't bother with them), followed by HM Xmas Pud.

In fact I've made four puds; we slice the amount we require (quarter of one pud does each of us a helping), microwave it and add hot custard. We are of the belief that Xmas pud doesn't have to be confined to one week of the year, so we use them throughout the cold months of January and February, and they've always all gone by the Spring Equinox.