I bought a frozen turkey the Sunday morning before Thanksgiving. It should have had enough time to thaw, but on that Tuesday It was still rock hard. So I picked up a ham and that's what was for dinner on the Thanksgiving.
As to the Turkey I smoked it on a weeknight after work, but it finished around 10 pm so I had something else for dinner. I ended up stripping the meat and making stock with the carcass using Alton Browns recipe https://altonbrown.com/recipes/chicken-stock/
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A couple of days later I followed up making Emeril Lagasse's Mardfi Gras jambalaya with the smoked turkey and home made stock. https://www.emerils.com/123527/mardi-gras-jambalaya
I usually do this with roaster chickens but it tastes great with the turkey.