Recipes Using Thanksgiving Leftovers

The best recipes using Thanksgiving Leftovers for the day after Thanksgiving and beyond.

Happy Wednesday! I’ve been convalescing from the cold I picked up weeks ago, so we haven’t chatted since last Monday. How was your Halloween? How was your weekend? Did you enjoy your extra hour of sleep this Sunday? (My answers to those questions are: great, fabulous, and YES!)

Now that October is in the rear-view mirror, we start saying goodbye to pumpkin and pumpkin spice everything ( 🙁 ) and looking forward to Thanksgiving (yay!).

Today though, we’re looking one day past that to the day after Thanksgiving–maybe the day after the day after. Whenever it is that your refrigerator is still stuffed with turkey day leftovers, but fixing yourself another plate of turkey, mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole starts feeling like less of a feast and more of an obligation.

When you get to that point, this post will be here for you, full of ideas to take your boring old Thanksgiving leftovers and turn them into something tasty and new.

I asked a bunch of fellow food bloggers for their best recipes using Thanksgiving leftovers, and oh man, did they deliver. Here we go: