Some recipes say to puree it with seeds and water in down to lemonade consistency. YMMV
Posted on 11/17/2018 9:33:38 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Cute!
Thanks for the Tom Tip! :)
I have been smoking the Thanksgiving turkey for over twenty years. Usually smoke the breast and can the dark meat and broth.
There is a Seinfeld quote for EVERY occasion! :)
I did the thighs as I would a cheap cut of beef - low and slow! Tender and delicious. ;)
Some recipes say to puree it with seeds and water in down to lemonade consistency. YMMV
Yeah. I like a good Craft Beer once in a while. If I’m going to have the calories, may as well make it COUNT!
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Is that some sort of Old Wives enlarged prostate cure? LOL!
Ever been to a Watermelon Roast? You and your friends build a big bon fire on the edge of the woods. Put a watermelon in the fire, and when it explodes, everyone runs into the woods to ‘get a piece!’
Ba-Dump-Dump. *TISH* :)
Oh, you betcha! I don’t have to buy much meat because Beau is such an awesome hunter, but I am, ‘Queen of the Loss Leaders’ when it comes to stocking up on the cheap! :)
Awwww! :(
*SNORT* :)
“People are starting to understand it’s not natural to grow turkeys up to 30 pounds,”
Has not always been so.
In the 50s while I was growing up on the farm in Nebraska, I asked my parents if I could raise some turkeys. “Sure.” said Dad and for two years in the spring, 10 turkeys came along with the 400 or so chickens. They helped themselves to the bugs & weeds around the farm place. I guess they were “Free Range”. With the exception of maybe for a short time when they were small, we never did feed them. Near Thanksgiving & Christmas the largest ones were near 30 pounds and still growing. It was kind of like cooking a dinosaur and most people wanted a smaller bird. Butchering was also a pain. Fortunately Dad did that while I was gone at school.
“We were broke as a joke all those years so a road-kill Christmas tree and rabbit stew were great.”
Character Building Years! :) I’ll bet you’re one that wastes nothing and takes nothing for granted, too!
We always teased that Grandma could feed our HUGE family, and anyone else that needed a meal, pretty much on two boiled potatoes and whatever roadkill Grandpa brought home that day, LOL!
I have since done this with all our meat birds and they turn out with pasture raised taste and grain raised juiciness. They probably would be better yet if I ever had the nerve to turn them into capons.
One of these days.....
Twice in the mid sixties, we ate fried quail that my Dad & Uncle shot that morning.
Mom only now talks of how tight money was back then.
After decades, we now grill lamb chops, make a couple side dishes, and a nice salad. So much easier and family loves it.
And the kids have in-laws who are stuck with the hassle of making the full Thanksgiving Turkey meal.
The reason domestic birds tend to be dumb relative to their wild cousins is that with few exceptions, they don’t come fully equipped to survive from the egg, even if they are up on their feet right away in the case of poultry and get nearly all of their education from the hen.
Birds have to learn a lot from their mother; some species learn from both parents; even their characteristic song and sounds, even alarm calls, of most species are learned while INSIDE the egg from their parents. But domestic birds are mostly hatched in incubators so they learn absolutely nothing about communicating with their own species while in the egg. And being hatched in an incubator means that the first thing they see is NOT their mother so they imprint on the person who opens the incubator if on anything at all.
Even a chicken hatched by their mother gets a couple days nest time learning and then the mother takes them out into the world and shows them what to eat and how to catch it. By watching their mother’s reaction to the male’s alarm calls at a hawk they learn that sound’s meaning; likewise they observe the reaction to a ground predator, etc. All of this is denied them if they were incubated by a machine and later put in a brooder [like a public school, but warmer], and then they are packed in with other equally ingnorant birds of the same age because no farmer has time to waste dealing with bird squabbles and pecking orders. They have no adults to learn from.
Chickens hatch with more information than turkeys- the important thing for a turkey is that brains are initially secondary to first developing leg strength and size and also the development of the ability to fly up to the roost 40 feet up a tree with their mother. Their energy goes into producing a first set of baby wing feathers. When they can fly up to the roost is when their learning really begins and they start learning about other turkeys, but before that their mother’s already given them a healthy fear of snakes and other predators they encounter on the ground and taught them how to avoid them, and has taught them what to eat and not eat. Obviously no farmed turkey is taught any of this by parental example like a wild turkey- instead they are in a “safe” environment and can learn everything they need by randomly pecking at shiny objects... like quarters in their first feeder. So they can be lazy and still get nutrition, and there’s no need to be alert for hawk or snake or possum or bobcat or for one flock member to watch while the others eat; they also have no food choices so there’s nothing to learn there, either- the food is safe, dull, and designed to put fat on them as quick as their bones can take it but doesn’t require they hunt it, catch it, or pick out the best parts. Unlike a lizard, grasshopper or palmetto bug, a grain pellet doesn’t run, hide, kick or grab onto a nostril or require any particular approach to consume, and always tastes the same. So what can a turkey learn from it?
Domestic turkeys aren’t allowed to roost high so minimal effort is needed to learn what flying skills wild turkey have, and they never learn to judge what limb is strong enough to hold them or high enough to keep them out of smell range of a coon or close enough to another suitable tree in case there’s need to escape in the middle of the night. So domestic turkeys have no way to gain experience...and almost none of them ever reach maturity before they are killed for food- many are killed at an age they would still be following their moms around, before they have molted into adult feathers. So of course they are stupid; broadbreasted domestic turkeys can barely stand, much less fly, and they can’t even have sex except by masturbating. Come to think about it they are a lot like millennials.
It’s always something! :)
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