Leftover Turkey

By now, you turkeys know your star has dimmed. Last Thursday, the family and friends gathered around the heavy laden table with the turkey being the center of attention. When everyone had their fill, the bird was rushed back to the kitchen and refrigerated.

A couple hours later or maybe sooner, the second course was turkey sandwiches with plenty of mayonaise, salt and pepper on white bread. No cook wants to see the leftover turkey drying out. So here’s when the modern cook turns to the internet for help to DISCOVER new and yet untried recipes for leftover turkey.

Literally 15,400,000 websites appeared when “leftover turkey” was searched.

Tex-Mex turkey soup, turkey tetrazinni, turkey meatballs, turkey meatloaf, turgers (burgers made from turkey), turkey noodle soup, turkey enchiladas, turkey waldorf salad, turkey pot pie I, II, III, turkey manicotti, turkey chili, turkey hash and don’t forget “Aunt Wanda’s Turkey Carcass Soup.” That one sounds like a Donner Family recipe.

No matter how turkey is disguised, someone will say, “Oh, no, leftover turkey.”

One becomes so self-adsorbed with turkey and fixin’s that a couple of days before Thanksgiving there was an intriguing headline, “Turkey downs Russian jet.” It took a few seconds to comprehend that a large turkey had not suddenly learned how to fly and flown into the path of the Russian jet and was referring to the nation of Turkey shooting down the jet.

Don’t be surprised in the next few weeks, if Mama doesn’t try to sneak in a few obscure recipes to use the rest of the leftover turkey.

And if she is a thrifty cook, she bought another turkey when they were on sale to use for numerous holiday parties.

Benjamin Franklin had wanted the turkey instead of the eagle for our national bird, but in a funny way the turkey won anyway.

Absolutely no recipes are on the internet for eagles.

Look for the upcoming “Hello, Monticello” where we will delve into the age old question, “What came first the Pilgrims or the turkey?”