Any genius ideas for using up Christmas leftovers 🙏

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We have the usual mountain of turkey/ham/roast veg/cheese and I cannot face another proper meal. Bonus points for quick food, picky bits, or mini buffet ideas that look vaguely intentional rather than everyone fend for yourselves. Please tell me your inspired uses / crowd-pleasers / lazy wins.

cheese freezes or make a quiche or frittata with it

who are you feeding?

Christmas dinner (unserved) leftovers are immediately packaged up for B&S.
A small box for Boxing Day breakfast, the rest goes in the freezer for NY day & onwards.

@CurlewKate it's just me dh and ds tween. I was gifted a hamper and also a box of wine those bits will last or keep. My freezer is bursting full so is my fridge bought far too much this year.

@MiddleAgedDread oh I didn't know you can freeze cheese. All cheese?

@Nourishinghandcream good you have a plan. I need to use the bits up to feed us as no other food in.

Boxing Day pie is the best if you have any shortcrust pastry. Just chuck it all in

Fried rice with random veg and whatever meat you have? Pasta sauce - chuck meat and veg in a pan with tinned tomatoes and herbs, cook for a bit and serve.

Trimmings tart - there is a recipe on line if you want to make the walnut pastry, but basically it's chuck everything leftover in a pastry case.

Honestly nicer than the Christmas dinner.

Pie - turkey, ham, quite a lot of the veg can be added too.

Roast veg - turn into soup, with a base
of fried onions and stock cube. Or reheat, mix with couscous and serve with goats cheese/similar

Cheese - make into pasta sauce, with creme fraiche. Add some green veg for vague feeling of health. Or cheese toasties.

Ham - crisp up some bits in a pan and serve on top of the soup. Ham, cream and peas or spinach makes a good pasta sauce. Or risotto.

Turkey and ham would go well in a pie if you can be bothered, I never can. A turkey risotto could be nice. Turkey curry is classic.

Omelettes

Just fry everything in the pan. Bubble and squeak. Mashed potato holds it all together. Better than Christmas dinner.

I put meat/potatoes/pigs in blankets/stuffing/veg in a pie. All in one dish, with some gravy and then shove some puff pastry over the top. I freeze any hard cheeses and then soft cheese I make cheese twists using puff pastry too

Dammit.

I was going to smugly witter about my brussel sprout and carrot frittata.

(The execution was better than the taste TBH but i will not be defeated by brassicas. Brassica and sulphur -ahem - digestive processes though. Happy days)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/leftoverspie74988

I just made this for Boxing Day dinner and it was absolutely delicious. I added leeks and used leftover turkey, gravy and veg. I didn’t faff with making my own pastry, I used ready made puff

These all sound delicious especially the Christmas leftovers pie. I don't have any pastry but could still bung it in a pie tin with a white or cheese sauce and serve the veg on the side. So that's tomorrow nights dinner sorted. Think for tonight will just plate up turkey roast potatoes gravy cranberry sauce and veg. We love soup and have it pretty much every day thanks for the tip for soup will make a leftover Christmas lentil type soup tomorrow.

Bubble and squeak? Although not sure I ever had a roast potato survive that long - they all get scoffed.

I made turkey soup today - it was about 100 times nicer than my Christmas dinner.

I boiled up the leftover bacon, turkey bones and skin to make stock, fried off some of my 5p potatoes, carrots and onions with a couple of sticks of celery and the once I added the stock I chucked in the leftover gravy, parsnips, chopped up chestnuts and stuffing balls. Fabulous.

Bubble and squeek always looks amazing never made it though. Made 12 roast potatoes yesterday have 6 left over.

We’ve just had cold turkey and bubble and squeak. It’s our Boxing Day tradition and it was flipping lovely.

We’re off to the football tomorrow and have enough cold turkey and cold lamb to slice and have with oven chips when we get in. Quick and easy dinner. Any turkey left will get cut into chunks and frozen ready for a pie or curry in the New Year.

We always buy lots of bake at home baguettes and have turkey, ham, stuffing and pigs in blankets with shredded lettuce, mayo and cranberry sauce - lush! Leftover potatoes, sprouts and carrots make a yummy bubble and squeak, really good with a fried egg on top!

I always make Christmas pie from the leftovers for boxing day. Fried an onion and some sage then added remaining gravy and some stock, then remainder of double cream from yesterday. Then chucked turkey, stuffing, sprouts with pancetta, carrots and parsnips in a dish, covered in the sauce and added pre made puff pastry lid and egg washed it. In the over for 30 mins and air fried yesterday’s roast potatoes to crisp them up again. Was so delicious, might even have been better than Xmas dinner tbh!

Those baguettes sound lovely. Will make these tomorrow night for a snacky dinner.