Mopping up the aftermath: turkey, leek, and mushroom soup.

Boil and pick the carcass. Discard the bones, or gift a stranger with your creative holiday jewelry. If you are in luck and enjoyed a smoked turkey, so much the better for you. Gather up any other fiddlybits of turkey unaccounted for by human or pt..

Three leeks and a pound of mushrooms, baby bellas or button whites, or more exotics if you have or wish.

Saute the veg in a flavorful fat. If you place a basin of water beneath your pork butt when you smoke it off and decant what it collects, you get a deep amber gold substance, smoked pork fat, which will keep in your fridge for years and which your frenemies will attempt to steal behind the ruse of just fetching another beer. Bacon grease will, of course, also do, and there is no real shame in using a commercial Unitarian bottled oil wearing a short-sleeved white shirt and a clip-on tie.

Throw in your turkey pickings, your homemade broth, and two quarts more of turkey, chicken, or vegetable broth, in descending order of desirability.

Seasoning is tarragon, one to two tablespoons if dried, more if fresh, and freshly cracked black pepper, salt to your tolerance.

This is a light winter vegetable soup, not meant to be a mainstay like a chili or a robust tomato soup, an excellent accompaniment for that turkey sandwich.