Ricky, I make corned venison regularly, I think you're going to like the corned beef and be surprised at how easy it actually is. The only issue for me is finding space in the refrigerator for curing the meat for several days. After a big turkey dinner, I think that would be just the thing to break up the menu!

I like cold turkey, so we'll have leftovers for a couple of days, but I send most of them home with my two daughters who will just serve the dinner again the next day, and maybe even a third day. I've been known to make "hot turkey" sandwiches with turkey and gravy, or turkey pot pie, but I'd really rather have just the turkey, cold with a sprinkle of salt.

Annie

I could eat turkey sandwiches until the cows came home, but we also reheat slices of turkey in the leftover gravy, the dark meat is usually diced finely and turned into turkey burritos, there’s turkey pot pie and then the frame and the last of the leftover turkey meat becomes turkey soup.

Normally we only have one round of turkey leftover sandwiches on Saturday. The rest that didn't get sent home with anybody gets divvied up into freezer packages, including the carcass. When the weather turns horrendous in January & February, we will have soups and pot pies. Traditionally, Friday night dinner after TG is as far from fowl as we can get, usually some kind of fish. Since we are out of town this year I may end up buying a couple of thighs to roast for sandwiches!

Because of the weather and other factors, I nixed the cornpone from Thanksgiving. It's dead easy, but has to be done that afternoon. So, Sunday's dinner will have the cornpone and something to go with it. Maybe a stew or chili.

plllog - what's cornpone?

I will be making turkey soup with all the bones, skin, drippings, and left over gravy. I think I am the only person who loves it, but that's all right by me.

sheilajoyce - that's what I do, too!

Cooking??.........as little as possible :-) But now that we finally have a really good Chinese place open in the area, Chinese take-out sounds very appealing!!

Turkey enchiladas the next day with my sister-in-law's homemade enchilada sauce. We always look forward to that.

Sandwiches? I prefer cold leftover turkey all by itself, slathered with cranberry orange sauce. After that it's turkey tetrazzini or divan and pot pie.

I make stock with the carcass and use it for other soups like lentil or bean. Not too crazy about turkey soup.

After a breakfast hash, and sliders for brunch made with biscuits, stock for soup on the back burner all morning...we are done with turkey by the afternoon. Someone might like a bowl of soup, but I freeze it. We love my soup with lots of leeks, garlic, wild rice and greens...but best as a quick snowy winter meal.

We switch quickly to seafood. Bouillabaisse, oyster pan roast, seafood salads,...probably steak on Sunday.

I generally make tamales, especially if I have saved fat from a bird that I can use in place of lard/shortening in the masa dough. I try to make enough to freeze some of them.

Another turkey soup (stew in this case) consumer here!

I usually make a turkey vegetable soup with barley. I don’t add the gravy as I prefer a thinner broth.

I cook the meal but never host,so I dont have to deal with leftovers. Something else to be thankful for. :)

I take one plate of leftovers,small portions. The rest goes to a sister and her big family,who polish it all off the next day. I guess there are advantages to having 6 kids, 5 of them hungry boys.

I'm all for turkey sandwiches for days! But we're having lasagna for TG! Last year daughter and her wife did the whole shebang for the first time.

We were supposed to do crab, but the season was pushed back cause the whales are still swimming right where the crabbers want to be!