To ask what have you done with your leftovers? I made something a bit different.

[Juniper68]

It was chicken ham and Brussels pie. Absolutely delicious. It had blue cheese in it too. All gone now. I'm definitely going to make another pie soon. I haven't made one in ages. This one only had pastry on top. I made my own but says to use ready rolled.

What have you done?

We only cooked a chicken as there was just the two of us - DH polished it off on Christmas day in sandwiches.

I had the stuffing and cold potatoes for lunch the next day.

Some turkey in the freezer the rest has gone in sandwiches, made gammon and cheese omelettes last night and the last of that going to turn into a gammon parsnip and potato chunky soup tonight

We have a bag in the freezer. Some time in the near future I will take it out and defrost the lamb, parsnips with and without parmesan, cranberries, carrots, chestnuts, cavolo Nero and God only knows what else, and I will make a plate pie out of it.

New years eve I will take some lamb, feta, squash, spices and filo pasty and will make finger food.

I'll also take the remnants of any cake or puddings and roll that, probably doused in alcohol, maybe with some apple, in filo, to be frozen back, eaten with custard or ice cream in the new year.

The muddled bits are often the best bits about Christmas 😃

What did I do with my leftovers?

Binned them.

Not gonna lie, ham, turkey, and brussel-sprouts pie sounds vile. 🤢 (It looks a bit grim in he photo too.)

@HoardingSamphireSaurus

We have a bag in the freezer. Some time in the near future I will take it out and defrost the lamb, parsnips with and without parmesan, cranberries, carrots, chestnuts, cavolo Nero and God only knows what else, and I will make a plate pie out of it.

New years eve I will take some lamb, feta, squash, spices and filo pasty and will make finger food.

I'll also take the remnants of any cake or puddings and roll that, probably doused in alcohol, maybe with some apple, in filo, to be frozen back, eaten with custard or ice cream in the new year.

The muddled bits are often the best bits about Christmas 😃

That dessert sounds epic.

Another vote for pie

We chop up all the leftovers, including veg, mix it with all the gravy / cranberry sauce / bread sauce, add mashed potato and then cook in the oven. Delicious

@Hospedia

I bought some of those frozen giant Yorkshire puddings and layered up the leftovers inside them with slices of turkey in-between each layer, then put mashed potato on top and scored with a fork to fluff the top of it up a bit. Roasted in the oven for around 15-20inutes for it to heat through and the potato top to crisp up a bit then served with gravy.

Great idea.

I made curry with the turkey and cooked the beef in red wine sauce (ready for a pastry lid) and put it all in the freezer for easy dinners in January.

@LittleRoundRobin

What did I do with my leftovers?

Binned them.

Not gonna lie, ham, turkey, and brussel-sprouts pie sounds vile. 🤢 (It looks a bit grim in he photo too.)

So make something different. Or buy less next year.

We just have lots of cold cuts and really nice salads and chutneys etc.

Mary Berry has a very good recipe for mincemeat cake. You basically stir any leftover mincemeat in to a basic cake mix with either apple compote or lemon rind - something like that can't remember - it turns out very well anyway! Haven't done it this year as still enjoying mince pies here!

I make this pie every year without leftovers. I don’t stick to the recipe, just use whatever we have and it’s always lovely.

Also have some leftover turkey in the freezer to pop into a pasta bake at some point.

This one says she eat them

I'm very basic, we have leftovers on Boxing day (basic second roast always better than Xmas Day) and then portion the rest of the meat out and freeze it in gravy. I do the same with the beef roast on New Years day so we end up with enough meals in the freezer to see us though to March. Very handy for a mid week meal.

Chucked them out for the birds. It was a horrible dinner

We made a filo spiral pie stuffed full of all the veg leftovers (parsnips, carrots, roasties, sprouts and chestnuts) chopped up smallish and mixed with a couple of tablespoons of harissa, it was delicious. Also fun to make as you have to start off with a 1.7m length of filo pastry which you then stuff and roll, then curl into a spiral. Had the leftover bread sauce, red cabbage and green veg on the side - mmmm mmmm.

Hotpot here - chicken, ham, carrots and Brussels in a casserole with the leftover gravy, roasties sliced on top then the cheesy leeks and cauliflower cheese spread on top of them, some grated cheese and bunged in the oven for 40 mins.

Tonight's is chicken and ham risotto made with the last of the meat and stock from the carcass

My dm used to make a bake which was leftover turkey and ham in a white sauce with peas and sweet corn topped with ready salted Pringles!

@LittleRoundRobin

What did I do with my leftovers?

Binned them.

Not gonna lie, ham, turkey, and brussel-sprouts pie sounds vile. 🤢 (It looks a bit grim in he photo too.)

I hope you're only talking about a few leftover cooked sprouts and some scraps of meat, bones, skin etc. I hate the idea of deliberately buying far more food than you can eat and throwing a lot of it away. Environmentally disastrous and incredibly wasteful.

@Sparklehead

We made a filo spiral pie stuffed full of all the veg leftovers (parsnips, carrots, roasties, sprouts and chestnuts) chopped up smallish and mixed with a couple of tablespoons of harissa, it was delicious. Also fun to make as you have to start off with a 1.7m length of filo pastry which you then stuff and roll, then curl into a spiral. Had the leftover bread sauce, red cabbage and green veg on the side - mmmm mmmm.

That sounds nice. We've got no leftovers now but I could adapt that for a pie of some kind for New Year.

I made pasties - worked really well - everything went in - even the yorkies!!!

Jamie Oliver leftover turkey and leek pie tonight, delicious.

I made a turkey leek and ham pie and made a crumble with the left over Christmas pudding It was all very good.

@freshcarnation

Chucked them out for the birds. It was a horrible dinner

Oh no what went wrong?

I get freaked out by Christmas leftovers. All year we are told not to reheat poultry Nd then we are all supposed to make pie and reheat, make stock which reheats and then is reheated whenever it’s used…I don’t get it. I’ve frozen the meat in slices to go in sandwiches and salads and binned the carcass.

We didn't cook more than we needed for veg.

The chicken turned into sandwiches with avocado and bacon, mayonnaise and redcurrant and then yesterday, a noodle soup - added rice sticks, edamame, peas, spring onion, quartered cherry tomatoes, the last bits of meat, sake, mirin, toasted sesame oil and black sesame seeds.