Recipes to make Thanksgiving leftovers even better the second time around

"You spent all day cooking the big feast. You spent hours cleaning up. And, now, the weekend after Thanksgiving, you have a refrigerator full of leftovers. But, aside from the requisite turkey sandwich with hot gravy and cranberry sauce, you don’t really feel like eating leftovers.

I have two words for you: Transform them. Take all that beautifully cooked food from your Thanksgiving feast and turn it into something brand new. Don’t think of it as “leftovers,” but as possibilities for a brand new dish.

You can (and should) make turkey broth with the leftover turkey carcass. You could make soup and pot pie. But you could also try three new ideas for transforming those leftover mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, vegetables, etc".