Turkey, the morning after.

Thanksgiving. The holiday of two of my 3 favorite three deadly sins: Gluttony and sloth. I’ll leave the third unnamed.

Like most Canadians, we spent the last night feasting with family or friends and wake to find a fridge jam packed with leftovers. I am no exception. There was but two of us this holiday and a 20lb turkey that was prepared with all the trimmings. That’s 10lbs of turkey each to be consumed over the next few days, not to mention the trimmings. Some will be turkey sammiches, some will be turned to soup and/or pot pies and some will even become breakfast. This morning was day one of turkey for breakfast.

I started with leftover bacon (which was used to keep the turkey moist) and used the leftover mashed potatoes for tater pancakes.

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Then I threw some leftover roasted potatoes in a pan with some butter and got them warming.

I then chopped up some turkey meat and stuffing, yes stuffing, and added a few eggs and a small spalsh of milk. turkey breakfast 033

Once it hit the pan, I threw in some S&P, savoury, majoram, thyme, sage and parsley and cooked it like scrambled eggs. The smell eminating from the pan was savoury delicious and instantly made my tummy groan with hunger. (It was noon after all!)


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All that was left was to plate it all and enjoy our refurbished turkey dinner. A little dolup of cranberry sauce made my strange breakfast concoction perfect.

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I have to admit, the stuffing in the eggs added a bit of an unusal texture to the whole thing, but it was still a tasty addition to my eggs.


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All thats left is clean up, figuring out how to incorporate pie into breakfast tomorrow and a nap. Darn turkey and its tryptophan laden goodness!

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Burp!

3 Responses to “Turkey, the morning after.”

  1. KJ Says:

    WOW! Leftover mashed and roasted potatoes all in the same breakfast! Everything looks GREAT but I do not think I would ever have come up with putting stuffing in the eggs with the turkey. I made mashed potato salad out of my leftover mashed potatoes. Not a breakfast food, but really good.

  2. Peabody Says:

    That looks turkey-licious.

  3. Max Says:

    This looks delicious! I love breakfast, and this is a great, creative way to use dinner leftovers and turn them into breakfast.