Sometimes after your big Thanksgiving dinner, there’s still a basket of bread and a turkey leg left. Your fridge is still full, but you can only make so many sandwiches. Fear not! Here are a few recipes to use up those holiday leftovers – from the bird to that extra bag of cranberries to a can of pumpkin puree.
For leftover turkey
1. Recipe: White Turkey Chili
2. Recipe: Curried Turkey Waldorf Salad
3. Recipe: Leftover Turkey Cuban
For leftover cranberries
4. Recipe: Cranberry Tart
6. Recipe: Cranberry-Fig Chutney
For leftover pumpkin
7. Recipe: Chocolate Chip-Pumpkin Bread
8. Recipe: Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip Cookies
9. Recipe: Pumpkin Mousse Shortbread Bars
For leftover odds and ends
10. Recipe: Fried Brussels Sprouts Salad
11. Recipe: Day-Old Bread Soup
12. Recipe: Croissant French Toast Casserole
Rachel Wilson is an editorial intern at Sauce Magazine.
This article appears in November 2017.