Cast Iron Saturdays-Thanksgiving Leftovers

   Good Afternoon, I was heating up tamales and turkey soup for our main meal today, when I remembered just then I hadn't done my Cast Iron Saturdays post yet. For those of you that enjoy these posts-sorry for my tardiness.

   I almost didn't write one since I am so late in posting, but decided to check out ideas for Thanksgiving leftovers.

   My oven seems to hold the temperature well for one cookie sheet. My turkey came out pretty good but it ended up being overbaked a bit, this oven is not working the best but I am managing to work around it as the part is too expensive for this old stove, and I want to replace this electric with a gas stove-oven eventually.

    I always make a stock from whole chickens and turkeys for soups-so Thursday after we ate-all the bones, skins, juices from roasting all went into a large pot with cold water  I also added in the wings, and some of the white meat that was a bit dry. I let this large pot slow simmer for a couple hours.  Strained that off, let sit overnite in the frig, and discarded the fat that rose to the top of the pan.  I turned this big pot of stock into a very thick soup the next day, using up the rest of the fresh green beans I had bought for our dinner, more mixed frozen veggies, stirred in Bob's Red Mill's instant mashed potatoes to give it some body and all the turkey that was left over from dinner. I wanted a rich stock and later a very thick soup-turned out really good.  and I have two containers in the freezer for later after we ate the soup again today.

  Soup stock can be cooked down in a large Dutch oven, but I grabbed a large enamel stock pan-lighter in weight for me to handle now.

  The gluten free rolls that I had made were really delicious. They stayed fresh for one more day-after that gluten free breads go stale fast. I crumbled up the rolls and dried them in a very low oven. Perfect for our turkey soup-these soaked up the stock and tasted like little dumplings, and I had no wasted rolls.

  

Online I found this Leftover Turkey bake  Perfect for those of you that have left over dressing (stuffing), gravy and turkey plus sour cream

Leftover Turkey Pot Pie in Cast Iron

Thanksgiving Left Over Skillet   this one uses shredded turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes and adds cheese

Thanksgiving Skillet Pizza  this sounds really good

Thanksgiving Left Over Sandwich--thought this recipe looked good if you eat sandwiches-just grill it in your cast iron grill pan or skillet

Pumpkin/Squash Pancakes   this is a good looking recipe if you had served roasted plain pumpkin or squash for Thanksgiving-turn the left overs into pancakes The recipe shares sweet or savory

Hoping this gives you some ideas if you ended up allot of leftovers.

  Happy weekend