Cheesy Chicken (or Turkey) Noodle Casserole

Recipes for your Thanksgiving Leftovers!

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I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Today’s Black Friday here in the US, a day when stores heavily discount prices in their attempt to kick off the shopping season for the Christmas holiday. Of course, many of us work, many of us shop, but many of us skip it all and enjoy time with their family!

Best chicken or turkey stock http://frugalhausfrau.com/2011/11/14/best-turkey-broth/

Best chicken or turkey stock

I’m in the latter group – we hang out, sleep in, eat pie, watch movies, take a walk and make something marvelous with the turkey or ham we’ve had the day before!

Over the years I’ve posted many recipes that take advantage of those leftovers and “ganged up” those recipes in two different posts, one post addresses Turkey and the other, Ham. After you go to the posts, scroll down to the bottom for photos, descriptions and links to our favorite recipes for using those leftovers. Most of these recipes will put a meal on the table very, very inexpensively – and many recipes are in my Bargain Meal of the Week postings, too.

12 Days of Turkey

Click above for a marvelous assortment (over 40!) of our family’s favorite recipes: everything from casseroles, soups, sandwiches, pizza and even our favorite appetizer. Seriously, many of these recipes are better than the original Thanksgiving turkey.

Wild Rice & Smoked Turkey Chowder

Wild Rice & Smoked Turkey Chowder

Soup is always a big thing for us after Thanksgiving, made from the turkey carcass – and it’s a tough decision whether to make our very healthy Wild Rice Chowder, Traditional Turkey Noodle or a newer favorite, Chicken Chipotle Chowder – made with Turkey! Luckily, a big pot of Turkey Stock lets us make more than one!

Cheesy Chicken (or Turkey) Casserole http://frugalhausfrau.com/2011/11/14/cheesy-chicken-or-turkey-noodle-casserole/

Cheesy Chicken (or Turkey) Casserole

12 Days of Ham

Our favorite recipes on my 12 Days of Ham include the 1950’s Classic Betty Crocker recipe for the BEST scalloped potatoes on the planet, my Grandmother’s Ham Loaf, an assortment of soups & sandwiches, and breakfast strata perfect for those extended weekend guests! And Deviled Ham – an indulgence, but so delish!

If we'd have had a ham, this Cuban Black Bean Soup would be on the menu today!

If we’d have had a ham, this Cuban Black Bean Soup would be on the menu today!

So, no matter how you spend your Friday, I hope you’ll find a few moments to make something marvelous and make some wonderful food to enjoy with your family! Make some memories and traditions, while you’re at it!

 

So how about you and your family? Do you have a “go to” family tradition for your after-holiday meal? Something marvelous you’d like to share with us?

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18 thoughts on “Recipes for your Thanksgiving Leftovers!”

    • Frugal Hausfrau

      Thanks! I made the Turkey Noodle soup with the last bit of mine! I’m debating on whether or not to take some over to my son’s house…I’m still a little miffed that when I woke up in the morning the other day, I found out he’d eaten all the rest of my Cheesy Turkey Casserole – and it’s a huge casserole!! And worse, I found out because the empty casserole dish was in th sink half filled with water…Jheez…

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  3. thehungrymum

    In Australia the news sometimes shows footage of the direhard shoppers who go to any length during those Black Fridays sales. It looks like hell! I’d be #teamHangingoutAtHomeAndEatingLeftovers 🙂

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  4. Guidance Fitness Personal Training

    Chipotle in adobo marinara…. Yum!!! Frau, would you send me your mailing address to my e-mail? I also want to publicly thank you for the idea to blog 10 minute exercise. I had an overwhelming response to that and picked up a number of new followers. My most gracious thanks to you. Bob

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  5. Johanne Lamarche

    OMG I haven’t seen ham spread since I lived with me parents but we had it all the time and we were French Canadian! Brought back memories. Turkey carcass soup upis the best! I have been known to take other people’s carcasses home when they were going to throw it out!!! I like some of the soup variations you shared!

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    • Frugal Hausfrau

      Hi Johanne! Glad to bring back those memories! And I’m the same way about Turkey carcasses and Ham Bones! Such a waste to toss, right – especially when what can be made from them is SOOOO good!

      Some of my family came to the states through Canada, although no real food traditions were passed down that I know about, in my family, here in the Twin Cities we have Booya (which is a concoction based on Buillion) and French Meat Pies as church fundraisers! And of course, Bean Pots are a meal often served, based on Cassoulet, no doubt! 🙂

      You might like the Split Pea, too, I’m guessing!!

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  6. A_Boleyn

    I’ll be checking out your turkey soup ideas as I want to do something with the meat removed from the turkey carcass after I made stock (14 cups of gellied goodness). I’m thinking rice stick vermicelli as I have a whole package in my pantry.

    When you live alone and cook a 12 pound turkey at least once a year, turkey leftovers are a fact of life. I went through a bit of a turkey binge a while back (2012) and posted a “Me and My Turkey” series of which the “Egg Fu Yung” with turkey gravy was probably my favourite. I served them with Singagore Style noodles, though I could have added diced turkey to the noodles and eaten them on their own.

    I need to work on my “Hot Brown” sandwich sandwich though as the mornay sauce was VERY rich. And then there’s my take on the the classic Monte Cristo sandwich using french toast rather than dipping the sandwich in egg batter which they do/did at the Magic Pan restaurant chain where I first had this sandwich.

    For recipes and pictures of the finished dishes, you have to scroll back through the current ‘turkey’ tagged posts to get to them.

    http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/tag/turkey

    This year’s chipotle in adobo marinara sauce turkey legs (I split my turkey into white and dark meat and roasted the breast separately) were delicious. All gone now. 🙁

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    • Frugal Hausfrau

      I think you should do a post with all the links! What wonderful recipes these sound like! I’ve thought about cooking each on it’s own – which would make another great post! I was never sure how to do it. Once when I had a super large turkey, when I checked it, there were obvious issues! I hacked off both sides of the breast and put the rest back in the oven!!!

      I had a close call on my turkey this year – I wanted to get away from the craziness and took Gibson to the dog park here, a forested area with meadows where we enjoyed absolute solitude – came back, took a peek and turkey was done! I went into a mild panic and flurry of activity as I hadn’t gotten the stuffing in the oven yet, the potatoes weren’t on the stove, etc!

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      • A_Boleyn

        Thank you for the suggestion, but there aren’t enough visitors to my LJ to make a summary post worth it. The tags will just have to do it for now. 🙂

        Having to throw everything together at the last minute sounds pretty traumatic. Luckily the turkey will wait if covered well with foil. I’m leery of leaving the oven on while go somewhere as keep imagining something happening to prevent me from returning home on time and returning to disaster.

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