My Millennial son was telling me that I do not need to buy that huge turkey this year. I am still buying whatever size I want. ( I am debating if he gets to take leftovers home this year or some of the soup.LOL)
So what does one do with leftover turkey? Turkey enchiladas, sliced turkey in the freezer for sandwiches and casseroles (turkey pot pie, turkey with gravy over rice) and then the famous turkey soup with homemade broth from the carcass. I know that this is so, so wasteful on my part, but it is a family tradition.
I don’t understand this idea that turkey gets wasted...
We never had enough, not even when we butchered free range turkeys for my grandmother and she gave us the biggest one, which dressed at well over 50 lbs ... we had to remove the legs from it just to get it into the oven... and oh, was it juicy. So good every bit of him was devoured right down to the parson’s hat.