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How long can you stand to eat "Anything Turkey" after Thanksgiving?
Me about 2 days max. Not a big Turkey eater, but love the trimmings.
I read something on the Butterball label from ours too that surprised me and that was keep (after cooking in fridge) and eat left overs no more than three days and that's too long for me.
Met a guy in the Army who refused to eat any at all when the Mess Hall had it on the menu. Said when he was young a 20 lb bird was all his family literally had to eat for over a week, they had to eat it all down to the bone and then some..................
I read something on the Butterball label from ours too that surprised me and that was keep (after cooking in fridge) and eat left overs no more than three days and that's too long for me.
Met a guy in the Army who refused to eat any at all when the Mess Hall had it on the menu. Said when he was young a 20 lb bird was all his family literally had to eat for over a week, they had to eat it all down to the bone and then some..................
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Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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Didn't make our own punkin pies this year, Mrs Smith's is good and couple stores had buy one get one free deals so a cherry and another punkin still left in the freezer. I think a brand called Edward's was the same sale and I almost bought some Key-Lime pies, but wow the carbs .....................I am looking forward to the next SE Shoot and hope that nice lady brings her homemade Key Lime pies again.............if I can keep Ned away long enough to grab a slice :tooth:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Just call me early two times.
By monday, I'll be wishing for more while knawing on the jerky youngest and I are making today in the deer schack.
Have another 20 pounder in the freezer which will get grilled and smoked this winter.
Matt
Jerry
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
I just love the hot turkey sandwiches after the first day.
Also, my mom use to make a jook(sp?). It a porridge made of boiling down the turkey carcass and other things and then cook rice in the broth. add some of the leftover turkey meat, shittake mushrooms and green onions and Its a good cold weather stick to your bones food.
- Don Burt
Turkey is only dry when the cook does a poor job, usually someone that does not like turkey much anyway.
I really liked left over turkey in my younger days, I learned to use a steamer to warm up the leftover turkey to not dry it out.
On careful consideration, I like turkey sandwiches enough to perhaps roast one occasionally and package it up & freeze it for future eating, I like turkey, I detest and hate the prepackaged stuff they pass off as turkey !
Those cheap turkey tv dinners almost taste something like turkey.
Probably have it in between. too.
I agree with this, because I never cared for turkey 'white meat' until my wife started brining them. Actually, I did like a perfectly fried turkey, and succeeded a few times with that - enough so that people brought me turkeys to fry and take home with them. I usually fried 4-5 every year, for a while, because the only hard part of frying a turkey is the clean-up, so why not do several, while you have 3-4 gallons of expensive heating oil ready to go. I even did baking hens or regular chickens, sometimes.
But, I tired of this after a few years, and when Mrs. Bisley wanted to get back to traditional baked turkey, I was all for it. The first one that she brined, injected with butter, and placed rosemary and other herbs under the skin was fantastic, even surpassing the fried turkeys, in my opinion. So, now we do them all that way, with the added twist of smoking them with mesquite for a couple of hours, before finishing in the oven. This method is very forgiving, if you happen not to check the internal temperature at exactly the right time. I've cooked them from 165 degrees to 185, with no noticeable difference in flavor. The 185 degree turkeys don't slice as pretty as those that are removed from heat at 165, but they still taste great. I bone everything out carefully, to get as much meat as possible. If you leave the dark meat on the bone, people will take a whole drumstick or wing, and waste half of it, so I bone it all, to make it go further.
I doubt that I'll ever fry another turkey, although I have no problem at all eating someone else's. :jester:
3 more days to go.
This; I like to heat the meat in the microwave or pan and add some chili slices.
We eat turkey for Xmass since there's no Thanksgiving down here. Wife only cooks when there's no other option (Basically for the girls) so we usually eat at my parents', and with a mother that's also a professional chef, a great meal is granted! Usually take both dark & white meat leftovers that will last for 3-5 days, while a Paella-style dish (With rice) mom makes using the bones (For the broth used as base), leftover meat and the innards (Geezers, liver & heart) is divided in portions and froze so it'll last for a few more servings.
This year holidays are in Chile with the in-laws and over there they don't usually go for turkey, but rather roast beef, pork or other dishes....will miss the tasty bird!
Winston Churchill
Man, I sure miss my mother's dressing. She's too old now to cook it. But she would bake several pans of homemade buttermilk corn bread for the stuffing. She had her old family recipe. She also had an old family recipe for oyster dressing that she made a few times. Her family landed here in this county in 1848 and hear tell that those old Germans formulated several family recipes that included Oysters. One other one was Oyster stew. Man I can eat my weight in that stuff too.
But back to the dressing. My ex, the mother of my blood kin kids, has that old corn bread dressing recipe and all three of my daughter's have it. My oldest did make it thanksgiving but I was too busy to eat there. My mother was in rehab in Warm Springs in Victoria and between hunting and visiting her I only ate a little of my own fried turkey, no dressing.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.