What do you do with Thanksgiving Leftovers?

Share your best recipes for the day after.

Dinner is done and the only thing more stuffed than the bird is you. Now the question becomes: What to do with all those leftovers? While many say simple reheating is all that’s necessary to have a “day after” feast, others have elaborate recipes for turning Thanksgiving leftovers into gourmet delights. From savory turkey soups to sinfully delicious pot pies and mile-high sandwiches, everyone has their own ideas on what to do with what’s leftover. The Food Network even has an entire recipe collection dedicated to the topic. We’d prefer to hear from you! What are your favorite Thanksgiving leftover recipes? Share them in the comments section or post them as announcements.

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Share Your Thanksgiving Dinner Photos

Let everyone see just how hard you worked!

Putting together a Thanksgiving feast is no simple feat. Between the shopping and the cooking, there’s barely time left to set the table and make everything just right. If you’ve gone above and beyond with your spread this year, Oconee Patch invites you to show off your hard work! Just upload your Thanksgiving dinner photos to the gallery. Be sure to share tell everyone about the special dishes you served up, too. And, if your dinner table setting and decorations rival something Martha Stewart might whip up, we invite you to show those off, too! To share your photos, just login to your user account and click on the white and green button at the top of this article. Happy holidays, Oconee County!

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Thanksgiving Recipes: Different Ways to Cook a Turkey

If you need a new recipe for your Thanksgiving turkey, give one of these non-traditional twists a try.

  There are many ways to cook everyone’s favorite holiday bird. Each family has its own special technique for cooking a turkey, whether it's using an old family recipe, adding a secret ingredient or shopping at a certain store in town that helps make the turkey taste all the better.  If you're hosting Thanksgiving this year, you can try any of the recipes below to add a new kick to your feast. If you're attending someone else’s dinner, hopefully their turkey will taste as good as one of these! Just the name of this recipe makes my mouth water. An Allrecipes.com user contributes this Greek take on turkey, which combines ground beef and pork with tangerine juice, rice and other ingredients for an in-bird stuffing. This one requires no pre-…

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Get Creative with Thanksgiving Leftovers

Are you one of those people who thinks the best thing about Thanksgiving is the leftovers? Check out this recipes for creative ideas for the day-after feast.

By now everyone has gotten their two cents in about the best way to cook and carve a turkey, whether the potatoes should be creamy or lumpy, the proper way to make a pie crust, and whether to call it stuffing or dressing. But now that Thanksgiving has passed, who knows the proper way to prepare the leftovers? There are tons of ideas floating around on the internet, and some of you probably have your own traditional leftover dishes. The following recipes will help you create meals that use every last bit of Thanksgiving goodness, right down to the cornbread crumbs and turkey bones.  Martha Stewart has an uncharacteristically simple recipe for Turkey and Rice Soup, which might serve as a light departure from the heaviness of the Thanksgiving…

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Athens Academy Students Serve A Thanksgiving Feast At Local Food Kitchen

Students and teachers took time out of their holiday break to provide a turkey dinner -- complete with all the trimmings-- at the Salvation Army Food Kitchen in Athens on Wednesday evening.

It's the season for giving. And Athens Academy Upper School students and teachers gave their time Wednesday serving a traditional Thanksgiving feast at the Salvation Army's food kitchen on Hawthorne Avenue in Athens. The school donated the food and parents helped prepare it. Dozens of patrons of all ages enjoyed turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and other sides along with delicious pumpkin, apple or pecan pie for dessert. Working in the food kitchen during the Thanksgiving holiday is an Athens Academy tradition, English teacher Tess Hardcastle said. "It's holiday break. It says a lot that the students come out during break to provide this service service," she said. The food kitchen is open every day of the year …

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Moms Talk

An Attitude of Gratitude

Family traditions can create a thankful home, I hope

My home buzzed with activity when I shouted for my family to join me at the dining room table, pulling each of them away from a fun weekend task of some sort to work on a little project with me. I had dreamed up a gratitude banner that I wanted to hang on our fireplace hearth in celebration of Thanksgiving. I heard loud sighs and quiet grumblings of protest as one by one, they each pulled out a chair and joined me at the table. I had spent part of the morning cutting out colored construction paper in the shape of leaves. Each person was to write something that they were thankful for on a few leaves that I would later string together on ribbon to make our banner. I felt strongly that it was important for our family to meditate on gratitude…

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Photo Gallery: First Friday in November

Event-goers enjoyed Native American song and dance and roasting marshmallows in downtown Watkinsville on Nov. 4.

The November First Friday on Main Street in Watkinsville featured Native American song, chant, and dance and Thanksgiving kids' activities. The monthly event is sponsored by the Watkinsville Trade and Tourism Association.

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