Leave the beer out of it.
Can we at least agree that this is a crime against nature?
Posted on 11/17/2018 9:33:38 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Small birds are having a big moment.
Tiny turkeys will increasingly grace Thanksgiving tables next week, thanks to the millennial generation’s ongoing campaign to remake American gastronomy.
The holiday depicted by Norman Rockwell—Grandma showing off a cooked bird so plump it weighs down a banquet plate—is still common. But smaller families, growing guilt over wasteful leftovers and a preference for free-range fowl have all played roles in the emergence of petite poultry as a holiday dinner centerpiece.
“People are starting to understand it’s not natural to grow turkeys up to 30 pounds,” said Ariane Daguin, co-founder and owner of D’Artagnan LLC, a wholesale and e-commerce food company in Union, New Jersey. “In general, that means they were penned up with no room to move around, and that’s why they’re fat like that.”
There are signs that wee birds are in greater demand. Inventories of whole hens, which are smaller than males, are down 8.3 percent from a year ago, the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Whole toms, the males, are up 6.9 percent.
Don’t call them capons. They’re not castrated chickens. Nor are they chicks. They’re not babies. They’re just turkeys that weigh in the neighborhood of six pounds. Bell & Evans is working with a breeder to make tiny turkeys that consumers will eat all year.
Owner Scott Sechler said the new breed, which isn’t yet sold publicly, “fills out nicely,” unlike other undersized birds, which can be bony.
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“and obsession with craft beer?”
Leave the beer out of it.
*ROFL* That’s good!!!!!!
My Millennial son was telling me that I do not need to buy that huge turkey this year. I am still buying whatever size I want. ( I am debating if he gets to take leftovers home this year or some of the soup.LOL)
So what does one do with leftover turkey? Turkey enchiladas, sliced turkey in the freezer for sandwiches and casseroles (turkey pot pie, turkey with gravy over rice) and then the famous turkey soup with homemade broth from the carcass. I know that this is so, so wasteful on my part, but it is a family tradition.
Sliced turkey breast on gummy white bread with mayo and salt and pepper. Best turkey sandwich ever.
I buy a 12 to 15 pound turkey these days.
You’re lucky. We have the drunks, the sluts, the know it alls, the name dropper who doesn’t know anyone, the holier than thou, the better than everyone else, etc. Put them all in the same room at the same, uh, no. A few years ago, I decided to stay out of their way so sat off to the side and observed. Eye opening.
Don’t mean to get in to personal details but you do realize he might be eating all those watermelons for you, right?
Socialism at work!
Sniff...this makes me so happy.
My widowed dad married a sweet little widower lady from Texas (originally from Tennessee) about 18 years ago. She invited the family in for Thanksgiving that next year and let me tell you it was fabulous. She invited us back for leftovers and all of us eagerly accepted. We all gathered around the table and started quietly wondering where all that food had gone.
She appeared with two large pyrex dishes that she placed on the table in front of us and proudly announced, “Turkey Sopa!” We all tried not to react but our faces fell like they were melting. She had taken all of that delicious turkey and shredded it, mixed it with Velveeta and enchilada sauce and baked it up. No cranberry sauce. No dressing. Not even leftover gravy or mashed potatoes. It was Turkey Sopa, or nothing. I think one of my little nieces actually started to cry a little.
One of the saddest Thanksgiving leftover experiences we’ve ever experienced.
Peach
6750. We breasted them
We lived across from a turkey farm. Yes, turkeys are dumb. They couldn’t sell the eggs that were double yolked so they’d give them to all the neighbors. Growing up, I barely knew what a chicken egg was. We had so many that I’d play with them by letting them dry out in the shell. The yolks would settle on one side and when you rolled them across the floor, they’d wobble.
The farmer’s wife had a milk cow so she’d give us a couple of gallons a week. Ooooh, soooo gooooood!
> I buy ham all year ‘round.
The holidays are a great time to pick up food on sale and put it in the fridge/freezer. For instance, St. Patricks day has corn beef far cheaper than at other times of the year. The stores are running good prices on turkeys and hams this week. Christmas (in my area at least) has a good selection of rib roasts on sale. etc.
Christmas tree miracles ... you, too? Hubs saw a cut pine tree by the side of the road one November day on his way to the hay auction. Figured if it was still there on his way back in was A Sign From God that that was our Christmas tree that year. We figured it had fallen out of a tree trimmer’s load or something. It was the top of a tree, not an actual tree. We put it in a stock tank until closer to time to decorate.
Another Thanksgiving we had home raised duck and rabbit stew because DS1 had good luck hunting. We were broke as a joke all those years so a road-kill Christmas tree and rabbit stew were great.
Being an equal opportunity meat enthusiast, I can also enjoy ham as the centerpiece of any meal. Until I ate Sunday lunch at my future mother-in-law’s house, I had never had a real, bone in home cooked ham. All the ham I had ever eaten had been canned. Suddenly, I was transported into an alternate reality of delicious, juicy ham and there were even crunchy brown bits of skin that she let me nibble. Ham has never been the same and that’s a beautiful thing.
Peach
Grandpa would go out to the pasture and chop down a cedar bush for our tree.
[The holidays are a great time to pick up food on sale]
I saw canned vegetables at a local WM for 25 cents a can last year, at Thanksgiving time.
I don’t know if they’ll do it this year or not. All the other WM stores were 50 cents a can.
This is a reasonably-new store so perhaps they were doing that to gin up business. It was good for prepping. A few cans of veggies make cheap dog food (carrots, peas and green beans). Can mix those in an extend your dog food with something Spot can safely eat.
100%
Good hunter, bad cook.
I’m not looking to lay in the provender derived for the winter. ;-)
1) carefully measure the size of your oven.
2) buy the biggest bird that will fit
Leave the beer out of it.
Can we at least agree that this is a crime against nature?
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