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Leftover Christmas Turkey Porridge

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After many years, my husband and I have finally moved into a place that is solely our own, where I have carte blanche.... To think the first meal I'd cook in our new kitchen would be leftover Christmas turkey porridge. The leftover Christmas turkey porridge is an annual Boxing Day family tradition of my MIL's side of the family. After the annual Christmas family lunch, they'd make turkey porridge with the leftover turkey, using the turkey carcass to make the stock and then using the stock to make porridge with jasmine rice, leftover turkey meat and a little ginger. Leftover Christmas turkey porridge I didn't have the turkey carcass because my MIL had first dibs. But I managed to take home the drumsticks and wings. So I used those and liquid chicken stock to make the stock. In a slight deviation from my MIL's recipe, I added some corn. She'd scream blue murder and lecture me about not doing it the "right way" (which mostly just means her way). But ho...