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Leftover Mashed Potato Pizza

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Leftover Stuffing Waffles

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Leftover Turkey and Stuffing Reubens

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Leftover Cheese Dip

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Turkey and Stuffing Quiche

A Bolognese sauce can sometimes take hours to prepare, but by using shredded cooked turkey, Giada whips up this classic Italian meal quickly.

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Turkey Bolognese

Toss leftovers vegetables plus shredded turkey into a cassreole dish and top with a prepared pie crust for dinner tonight.

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Turkey Pot Pie

This creamy stew uses both turkey bones and meat to give it some depth.

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Bird to the Last Drop

Every Thanksgiving, Sunny looks forward to making this dish. Leftover stuffing is formed into two-bite snacks that are deep-fried and then served with a cranberry pesto.

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Second Day Fried Stuffing Bites with Cranberry Sauce Pesto

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Thanksgiving Leftovers Hand Pies

There’s probably no better way to empty that overstuffed post-Thanksgiving refrigerator than a hearty soup. Using the turkey bones to make a broth for the soup is the best way to get every penny’s worth from your bird. If your leftover stuffing is chunky and rustic, finely chop it to make these delicate dumplings.

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Turkey Vegetable Soup with Stuffing Dumplings

The ultimate next-day comfort food: turkey, brie, arugula and apple butter are sandwiched between two pieces of rye bread to create a grilled cheese sandwich you’ll crave year-round.

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Grilled Turkey, Brie, and Apple Butter Sandwich with Arugula

Leftover turkey breasts are fried to a golden crisp and topped with leftover turkey gravy and mushrooms. Make it a complete meal by serving a side salad of arugula and blue cheese along side.

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Turkey Milanese

Perfect for next-day brunch, the star of this combo are the potato pancakes made from mashed potatoes, livened up with marinara sauce and Parmesan.

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Eggs in Purgatory

Leftover green bean casserole is transformed into a main dish with the help of puff pastry and leftover turkey meat. You can find puff pastry in the frozen aisles of supermarkets.

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Second Day Turkey and String Bean Pot Pies

Rachael energizes the traditional open faced turkey sandwich by adding maple sausage to whole-grain bread stuffing and apple sauce to plain cranberry sauce.

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What a Face! Open Faced Hot Turkey Sammys with Sausage Stuffing and Gravy, Smashed Potatoes with Bacon, Warm Apple Cranberry Sauce

Sweet, tart, crunchy and creamy: This turkey salad gets its wealth of flavor and texture from a deliciously satisfying mix featuring apples, celery and toasted pecans.

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Turkey Waldorf Salad

With its use of classic fall herbs like thyme and parsley, this dumpling soup is the perfect warming stew for a chilly night.

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Turkey Dumpling Stew

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Dressing Griddle Cakes with Turkey and Cranberry Barbecue Sauce

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Potato Cakes with Fried Eggs and Turkey-Red Pepper Hash

Enjoy this cheesy filled egg skillet using leftover turkey for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Add plenty of vegetables and top with cheddar, Monterary jack or Mozzerella cheese. 

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Turkey Frittata

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Waffled Leftover Thanksgiving Brunch

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Turkey and Mashed Potato Croquettes

Put leftover stuffing in portabella mushroom caps and top them with freshly grated parmesan cheese to create an easy post-Thanksgiving meal.

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Stuffing-Stuffed Mushrooms

Baking this dish in onion gravy and then topping it with melted cheese makes for an extra juicy sandwich.

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Hot Brown Turkey Sandwiches

Rachael’s shepherd’s pie is a great way to use all of your Thanksgiving leftovers at once and create a complete meal.

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Turkey Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie and Cran-applesauce Sundaes

Sandra serves her artful turkey hash with poached eggs and leftover country graving. For an extra amount of semi-thick graving just add chicken broth into the gravy bowl. 

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Turkey Hash with Country Gravy

Put leftover roast turkey to good use in this simple, flavor-packed chili. Using fire-roasted tomatoes gives it an extra layer of toasty flavor, but regular diced tomatoes work fine, too. For a change-up from the traditional cornbread side, try it ladled over leftover mashed potatoes.

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Leftover Turkey Chili

Put a California twist on your leftover turkey by adding avocado and bacon and serving it on crusty bread.

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Turkey Crostini

Giada uses leftover stuffing to make cake patties with Italian style breadcrumbs. Put crispy panchetta in between the stuffing cakes and eggs for maximized flavor and coat the bread with eggs so that it all holds together. 

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Thanks Benedict on Stuffing Cakes with Sage Hollandaise

Leftover turkey, caramelized mushrooms and egg noodles drizzled with Veloute (a classic French sauce) makes a filling post-Thanksgiving casserole dish. Garnish with tasty topping like toasted almonds. 

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Turkey Tetrazzini

Ree piles leftover turkey on top of fresh sourdough, along with leftover cranberry sauce, gravy and Swiss cheese, to make a crusty grilled panini.

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Leftover Thanksgiving Panini

Rachael begins building her make-ahead casserole by creating a base mixture of mushrooms, corn and chunks of roast turkey. Spicy poblano sauce, charred tortillas and shredded cheese go on top to create dense, flavorful layers.

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Turkey, Mushroom and Corn Mexican Casserole

Made with leftover roasted turkey, this straightforward, easy-to-assemble big ol’ pan of lasagna is exactly what we want to eat the day after Turkey Day. It’s a comforting crowd pleaser that is just different enough from yesterday’s feast.

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Roasted Turkey Lasagna

Reinvent your Thanksgiving turkey into a bowl of intensely flavorful Vietnamese pho. Fortify store-bought chicken broth with turkey bones, charred vegetables and toasted spices to create a rich broth that goes from stovetop to table in less than two hours.

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Leftover Roast Turkey Pho

This four-ingredient dip get its fluffy texture from sweet potatoes and mashed white beans. Top it with crushed, toasted nuts for added crunch!

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Day-After Dip

The cornmeal-buttermilk batter gives these deep-fried green beans a flavorful crunch, and a touch of cayenne adds just the right amount of heat.

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Deep-Fried Green Beans

Curry powder and scallions give this pita sandwich a spicy bite, while the cranberry sauce provides juiciness.

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Sweet-and-Spicy Turkey Pitas

Avocado and pepper lettuce freshen up this craveworthy leftover turkey sandwich.

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Roast Turkey, Avocado and Bacon Sandwich

Use almost every category of leftovers – mashed potatoes, stuffing, turkey, corn and cranberry sauce – to make dinner tonight.

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Bubble and Squeak with Corn Puree

Giblets and the neck of leftover turkey help give depth of flavor to this tomato-based sauce.

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Rigatoni With Braised Giblet Sauce

Assemble these sandwiches as soon as Thanksgiving dinner is done and all you’ll need to do the next day is heat up a skillet for a warm, satisfying winter supper in minutes.

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Turkey, Cranberry and Fontina Panini

Using leftover cranberry relish adds both tart sweetness and extra moisture to these muffins.

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Cranberry-Carrot Muffins

Give your leftover mashed potatoes a southwestern flair by mixing in some spicy chipotle peppers.

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Sweet Potato Soup with Blue Corn Tortillas

Gnocchi simmered in a creamy turkey and tomato sauce makes for the ultimate comforting fall meal.

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Turkey and Mushroom Creamy Tomato “Gravy” With Gnocchi

Use up your Thanksgiving leftovers in a surprising way by making these hearty nachos.

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Leftover Thanksgiving Nachos

If your family gobbled up all the turkey meat, you can still get a smart second-day dish out of the carcass. Use it to make broth, which you can save for soups later.

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Turkey Broth

Giada takes her ciabatta stuffing with chestnuts and pancetta and pairs it with with ground meat and sauce for a hearty second dinner.

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Stuffed Meatloaf

You can literally throw the whole leftover turkey carcass into the pot to make the broth for this next-day soup, which includes Thanksgiving staples like sweet potato, green beans and thyme. 

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Day-After Turkey Soup

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Cinnamon Sugar Scrap Cookies

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Potato Puppies

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Antipasti Skewers

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Roasted Potato Peels

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Leftover Thanksgiving Pull-Apart Sliders

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Stir-Fried Broccoli Stems

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Cranberry-Rosemary Julep

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Italian Hot Brown Crostini

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Cheese and Chipotle Scrap Crackers

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Mashed Potato Zeppole

What tastier way to enjoy a veggie surplus? A few key ingredients (eggs, bread cubes, cheddar cheese) and a few minutes of skillet time is all you need.

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Extra-Veggie Frittata

Mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce get an Indian kick with this creative samosa recipe, which incorporates turmeric, ginger and curry powder.

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Vegetable Curry Puffs