Christmas Turkey Dinner left overs.

What to do with all that left over food? Well the first thing do with hindsight (we’re all good at that) was not to cook so much. That’s easier said than done. When you want to make sure everyone has enough to eat.

The easiest left over to use is all the vegetables.

Bubble and Squeak: Supposedly get its name from the bubbly sound the potatoes and the squeaky sound the cabbage makes when being fried. We learn something every day.

Just for interest I put Bubble and Squeak in Google search. I couldn’t believe the number of hits, over 74,000 hits. This many just for you mix together your left over potato and vegetables.

 Even the posh chefs, like Jamie Oliver has multiple entries. They’ll be putting it on the menus in there over priced restaurants next.

When I was young bubble and squeak was just potato and cabbage left over from Sunday. On Monday we would have the bubble and squeak and whatever meat was left, unless Dad had used it in his sandwiches for work. In those days there was not the selection of cheap vegetables you can get today.

Sunday dinner vegetables was always cabbage or in season greens and maybe carrots.

Never mind all the fancy recipes, Bubble and Squeak is basically what whatever you have left mixed with the potatoes. If you have a lot left over I would suggest saving it in meal size servings or fish cake size and freezing for later. It’s great with a fry up breakfast.

All I do never mind all the gourmet suggestions, is mix the potatoes and vegetables together and mould into a thick pancake shape. You can make smaller cake sizes. Fry in butter until it is heated through and there is a crisp brown coating, turnover and fry till it is crispy brown. Without burning.

The Turkey and Stuffing:

I would first take out all the stuffing and cut off most of the meat from the carcass.

I would leave some meat on the carcass. If you’re going to make soup from the carcass it will make a tastier soup. Or.

 I prefer picking the carcass clean with fingers. Have some of the cold stuffing, and some pickles of your choice with some bread and butter.

With a cold beer or glass or two of wine.

It depends how much turkey meat you have left what you decide to do with it. Sandwiches, turkey salad, turkey curry or stew.

The Turkey curry you cook to the curry recipe back in the blog, “A New life” on the 28 July 2010, my, doesn’t time fly.

The stew can be cooked very much like my “Lad’s lamb stew” back at “As time goes by” 27 June 2010.

You can add some of the stuffing to bulk it out and give a different flavour.

Anything I’ve missed give me nudge in the comments.