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Thanksgiving Leftovers Turkey Club

Closeup of a crosssection of a sandwich.
Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne, Prop Styling by Gerri K. Williams

You don’t need to be told that the best and easiest thing you can do with Thanksgiving leftovers is to make a sandwich. But maybe it helps to be gently nudged toward making that sandwich a club? Three pieces of bread are mandatory here. First, because it’s not a club without that center layer, despite what our food director, Chris Morocco, might say. And second, because you’ll want the extra surface area for spreading this sweet-spicy cranberry-mustard sauce, and for supporting the layers of leftover turkey, bacon, and leafy lettuce. If you have some bitter chicories in your fridge that didn’t make it into a holiday salad—think Treviso radicchio or frisée—throw those on as well.

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