I love roasted turkey, but there may be something to getting smaller ones, if only a few people will be eating.
At a certain point, one has just had enough turkey for a good while. The meat has a distinctive flavor, so even were you to put it in salads or soups, that same flavor is going to dominate.
For the same reasons, I’ve been buying smaller watermelons while they’re in season. I don’t want to get stuck with a gargantuan melon taking up residence in my fridge and getting mushier by the hour. I’m taking a second look at those soccer ball sized melons. Sometimes bigger is not better.
I agree on the watermelons. Beau is OBSESSED with growing melons, and to his credit, he’s getting better at it.
But...guess who gets to cut them up? Yep. And I hate every minute of it. I can’t think of a less nutritious, space hogging, water hogging thing to grow. I don’t allow them in MY garden. He plants them in the lower garden with the winter squashes and sweet corn, potatoes and popcorn.
This has been an ongoing ‘conversation’ since the day we met, LOL! And don’t even get me started on the year he grew Spaghetti Squash! THAT was a ‘hill’ too far! ;)
Juice the large watermelons for drinks later on. Pickle the rind. Waste not, want not. Very little goes to waste around here.