Behind the Line
Topic: Off the Clock
Holidays: How Food Figures in For You
The day-after-Thanksgiving-sandwich is as much a turkey tradition as the holiday feast itself, and everyone's got their own variation. What are your turkey sandwich traditions/compositions?
- Carrie Nahabedian
- Executive Chef/Owner
- NAHA and Brindille
- Chicago, IL
Whole Wheat Bread, mayo, a touch of honey mustard, some cold mashed
potatoes and stuffing, turkey meat, big chunk of lettuce, a slice of
cucumber, some cranberry sauce and seas salt. Smash top piec...
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- Gerard Craft
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Niche Restaurant and BRASSERIE by niche
- St. Louis, MO
Pepperidge Farm thin white bread, way too much Hellmans mayo, and good leftover turkey.
- Susan Goss
- Executive Chef/Owner
- West Town Tavern
- Chicago, IL
My favorite turkey sandwich of all time came from our first business: Something Different: carry Out cuisine which we opened in 1983 in Indianapolis. We made this awesome dark black pumpernickel br...
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- Jennifer Plank
- Toast
- Cleveland, Ohio
You have to get the whole meal in between leftover buttermilk biscuits..
Cranberry sauce as butter, then mashed potato stuffing and turkey the
middle. If your feeling adventurous, put gravy over th...
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- Stephanie Samuels
- Pastry Chef/Owner
- Angel Food Bakery
- Chicago, IL
wrote:
My favorite has to be turkey with the leftover fresh cranberry relish
and hot mustard, on rye of course.
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- Melissa Trimmer
- Pastry Chef
- Le Cordon Bleu Chicago, Pastry Chef Instructor
- Chicago, Illinois
I like mine with a grainy mustard aioli, cranberry sauce, mixed greens, and crusty bread. Yum!
- Jeremy Kittelson
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Denver, Colorado
White bread, mashed potaoes, turkey and cranberry relish. Warm with a side of stuffing. It is a standard.
- Josh Galliano
- The Libertine
- Clayton, MO
We rarely had leftover turkey for sandwiches because leftover turkey gumbo is a bigger tradition back home.
- Craig Harzewski
- Pastry Chef
- NAHA and Brindille
- Chicago, IL
Kaiser roll, hellmanns mayo, iceberg lettuce, tomatos and bacon.
- Mark Steuer
- Chef/Partner
- Carriage House and The Bedford
- Chicago, IL
Crusty baguette, dijon mustard i saute some leftover turkey with a little gravy, leftover cranberry and stuffing, touch of mayo. I want one now... Also, this past year i made a really nice soup o...
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- Jill Barron
- Executive Chef/Owner
- MANA food bar
- Chicago, IL
turkey mole burritos and turkey hash are my 2 favorites, but i do love a plain turkey and cranberry mayo sandwich on wheat bread too.
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- Patrick Fahy
- Pastry Chef
- Sixteen
- Chicago
Pretty simple, my mom always made our leftover turkey sandwich with mayonaise, lettuce, tomato, salt, and pepper. I still make it that way to this day!
- Nathan Sears
- Executive Chef/Owner
- The Radler and D.A.S.
- Chicago, IL
Crappy white bread, miracle whip a pinch of salt and cold turkey.
- Paul Fehribach
- Executive Chef/Owner
- Big Jones
- Chicago, IL
This is a very simple one for me - bread, mayonnaise, cracked pepper, turkey.
- Chrissy Camba
- Chef
- Bar Pastoral
- Chicago, IL
I don't make a sandwich out of the leftovers. I usually just eat what I did the night before - turkey with lots of gravy, mashed potatoes mixed with corn and topped with gravy, brown sugared sweet ...
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