So the “Craft 2″ is the a new “pick two” combination from the fine minds at Qdoba. It’s regularly $5.99 for any two smaller-size entrees/soups/salads on the Qdoba menu but because both Qdoba and I love you we’re giving 10 away for free this week.
We’re giving them away this week so the winners will have the free food cards in their hands as a beacon of fresh Mexican food hope from the “I’m so sick of Thanksgiving leftovers” malaise that inevitably hits us all.
To be entered to win just leave a comment telling us your best (or worst, you be the judge) Thanksgiving leftover story. Whole family food poisoned by improperly refrigerated leftovers? Tell us. Absolutely best recipe you ever made using Thanksgiving leftovers? We want to hear about it. Use leftover mashed potatoes as spackle? Give us the scoop.
I’ll choose 10 random winners from all the entries I receive by 4PM Wednesday November 18, 2009.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:15 am
My favorite thing to make out of Thanksgiving left overs is Tacos! All you have to do is get some corn tortillas, add turkey, green beans, some mashed potatoes —if you feel like you didnt consume enough the day before—, and top those bad boys with either cranberry sauce or gravy!
November 16th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Thanksgiving leftovers are a hot commodity around here! They never last long enough for us to have nightmares/ issues over them. Ok, maybe a little tension over who had the last of the stuffing or sweet potato casserole.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Thanksgiving is actually a good time for me to loose weight- sure the initial binge is bad for the waist, but as the carcass of the bird lingers in the fridge for days and days on end, my desire to eat ANYTHING out of that fridge dwindles to nothingness. So my best Thanksgiving leftovers are the kind that reduce my pant size
November 16th, 2009 at 9:37 am
My best recent Thanksgiving leftover story involves my beloved pooch. It was Thanksgiving 2007 and the extended family had finally cleared out after the afternoon meal. My dad had put all the turkey leftovers from the various platters on one plate in the middle of the counter then went to another room and took a well deserved Thanksgiving nap. Left to his own devices as everyone was sleeping, my visiting canine smelled something tempting in the kitchen air. Eventually I woke up and went looking for the dog to take him on a walk. I found him frozen in place with a face full of guilt standing on the kitchen counter in front of a freshly cleaned plate. Jack Russells are known for their jumping skill, but jumping onto a 3′ counter without the assistance of a chair or stool is still quite impressive. Nowadays we make sure and put the turkey away before we take our evening naps. No one likes to be robbed of delicious leftover turkey sandwiches by a sneaky terrier.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:50 am
yeah we don’t have a thanksgiving meal at our house, we still jet around and mooch of the parents!!! Then all the kiddos fight over leftovers.
One awesome memory of Thanksgiving and my late Grandpa is succotash. I think that is the nastiest stuff on the planet and cannot fathom why anyone would eat that combination and ruin perfectly good corn with lima beans. But my grandpa LOVED it. When we ate at my grandparents house we were required to take three bites of everything that we put on our plate. Even though that rule no longer applies to me, I always take my three bites of succotash if it’s there. Even if it’s not during Thanksgiving.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:09 am
It would have to be the year our Turkey cooked a *little* too well. Everything was really tough, but being the frugal family we are we still ate it! Chew sandwiches for a week and a tender jaw resulted from the disaster!
The Best Recipe my family has is one for these AMAZING egg noodles! They are just so great tasting, and go well on the mashed and smashed potatoes!
November 16th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I used to love the potato pancakes my mom made from the leftover mashed potatoes – yum! I’ve never been able to duplicate them myself, though. I think the magic was in her perfectly seasoned cast iron skillet.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Gather round, one and all, and I’ll tell you of the magical sweet potato casserole.
In my family, this is the hot item for the day, the only food that every single family member wants a piece of, and who could blame them? Sweet potatoes, almonds, pretzels, marshmallows, and spices all baked into the perfect combination of salty, sweet, gooey goodness. So normally there are no leftovers to be had. However, one year, a particularly bad round of flu hit a bunch of the extended family, so miracle of miracles, there was leftover sweet potato casserole, with which I promptly absconded.
But, since this was an anomaly in the sea of Thanksgiving leftovers, I made the mistake of forgetting about it in the back of my fridge.
Fast forward two months to when I come home to find my boyfriend eating sweet potato casserole. “Wow, you cooked?” Haha, I should have known better. Whilst I dared not to try it, he said it was as delicious as the day it was made, mold and food poisoning free. I now fear/revere the family tradition.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
My worst Thanksgiving food story was the time my mother decided the only deserts we were going to have that year were fruitcake and cranberry sauce. I had to drive through a McDonalds to get a semblance of pumpkin pie!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Mostly, I love going to other people’s Thanksgiving feasts– just about anyone is a better cook than I am. But the real drawback to letting someone else do the cookin’ is that someone else gets to keep the leftovers. So in order to “create” leftovers, most years, Roommate and I do a second Thanksgiving shortly after Thanksgiving. We just do a turkey breast, but we swing most of the fixings. Man, it made me hungry just typing that.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
The worst leftover incident ever involved The Cranberry Sauce. No one in my family will eat this crap save for my grandmother… she likes the “design” (made from the indentations on the can, no less). The issue began when, of course, some of this slime was inevitably left over. My endless pit of a dog was later found to be devouring Grandma’s beloved c-berry sauce and staining his white fur that hideous “color”. Looked like a bad attempt at a horror movie… and so did the subsequent return of the cranberry sauce.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Long ago I used to run the Pizza station at a large buffet. Unfortunately I had to work every Thanksgiving. We were usually pretty slow, so every year we would make a Thanksgiving Pizza. It basically consisted of everything and anything Thanksgiving related on the buffet. Gravy for sauce, stuffing for cheese, cranberry sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes…you get the idea. Anyhow, the pizza would sit untouched for my entire shift, except for the piece I sampled but always spit out. It was horrible
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 16th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
The very first time I cooked Thanksgiving for my family (husband, parents, siblings, in-laws)I cooked all day and thankfully everything turned out great. However, when I went to pack up the leftovers for people to take home, we discovered my cat on the table, helping herself to the turkey carcass!
No leftovers that year
November 16th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Leftover turkey from Thanksgiving is one of my favorite things, besides non-leftover turkery from Thanksgiving!
I would make sandwiches with just a little salt and pepper and mayo. mmmmmm….
November 17th, 2009 at 11:37 am
My favorite leftovers are macaroni and cheese and my mom’s sweet potato casserole with brown sugar as the topping. All were my grandmother’s recipes….and quite delicious! Guess it’s time that I learn how to cook
November 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
My favorite leftover is the Cranberry Jello my mom makes. My cousins and I would always fight to see who got to take the rest of it home. Last Thanksgiving my mom made a triple recipe so we could all have some yummy leftovers.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
one year as a kid i helped my mom make cranberry sauce. ever since then its been known as “scott’s cranberry sauce” and every year everyone tells me how good it is. i mean… i stirred the sauce for like 10minutes and that was 15 years ago. i have nothing to do with this sauce yet i am famous for it
November 18th, 2009 at 1:20 am
This is my most boring leftovers story. This year my in-laws, who are hosting dinner, wanted a simple meal and almost weren’t going to have a turkey. But I insisted, because every year I dream about the day after when I can eat it straight from the refrigerator—so we’re getting it pre-made from Whole Foods.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:56 am
When I was younger, my mom and I came up with the best recipe for leftover turkey that I’ve ever ate. In fact, we look forward to the leftover meals as much as we look forward to the actual dinner. After Thanksgiving dinner (and the Tryptophan coma), we shred up the remaining meat and store it away in the fridge. The next few days we pull out a little bit of turkey, and fry it in butter on the stove for a few minutes. Slap the turkey on some white bread with a bit of ketchup and enjoy! It’s become a tradition in my family to enjoy a fried turkey sandwich for lunch the day after thanksgiving.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
No leftover story, but one year when I was younger, my grandmother let the turkey thaw on the counter before cooking. Everyone had horrible faces when we smelled the soured, cooked turkey on our plates as we started eating. To this day, I am absolutely picky when I eat turkey.