I don't like prefacing recipes with 2,000-word essays. So, you've got Thanksgiving leftovers, right? The stuffing and the turkey and all that type of thing. What you do is, you take a casserole dish or a pyrex pie plate and you line the bottom with leftover stuffing, right? Then, you put any of the vegetables you had leftover; like Brussels sprouts, carrots, and green beans; on top of that. Then, you chop up the poultry and put it onto the veg. Then, you cover that lot with gravy, then you cover the gravy with mashed potatoes. Finally, the day after Thanksgiving, you bake that lot for 45 minutes at 400 F in the casserole dish, or 35 minutes at 375 F in the pie plate. Hey, presto, you've got Thanksgiving Pie.
It's not a boring old sandwich, and it'll clear up the leftovers in a single dish. Depending on the particular use-case, you might also have crescent rolls, dinner rolls, or mixed biscuits. Don't put those in, because they'll just burn. Maybe you're the type who eats ham on Thanksgiving. Dice that up and put it in along with the poultry. Basically, anything that isn't bread or dessert that you had leftover after Thanksgiving dinner, you just chuck it all in the casserole and that'll do for you.
Also, it's easier to do all this as you're putting leftovers away, so remember that for next year. And, as always, be sure to include the farmers and labourers who harvested everything that you used in the meal in your Thankful-Fors, and start the meal by naming the Native American nation whose land you are occupying and identify where the US government shunted them off to after killing most of them back in the 1600s-1800s. In my particular case, it was the Pawnee, and they got thrown out to the Indian Territory along with a lot of other tribes, which is now known as Oklahoma. You might have to involve Wikipedia for that kind of information, but you're eating a meal of celebration on someone else's land. The least you can do is acknowledge whose land the government stole to let you stuff your face and watch football all day. Well, I'm about this far from another political diatribe. Gonna hang up!
--24 November 2023--