ALABAMA!!

[ThaSilverShadow]

best part about turkey is all the secondary meals you can make out of it.  i take the carcass (the body, wings) and boil that for a few hours.  taking the time to pull all the extra meat off after about an hour of cooking then letting all the bones and skin ooze out their awesomeness.  then we make a turkey barley soup the next day.  it's funny, when you pull that turkey stock out of the fridge the next day it has set up as thick as Jello.  anyways.... sauteed carrots, onions, mushrooms in a side pan, put that in with the turkey stock.  put all the extra meat back in.  put about 3/4 of a box of instant barley in there.  little parsley.  salt, pepper, garlic powder... whatever else you want.  boom, a HUGE pot of soup.

then you have all the leg and thigh meat (that no one wants to eat on thanksgiving).  i pull all that meat off and it goes into a killer turkey pot pie.  i LOVE me some turkey day (turkey WEEK when done properly)

side note: if you let your turkey cook until that thing pops out, you ruined your turkey.  pull it out when the breast meat hits 160-165 (i lean on the 165 side).  technically, the thighs won't be fully cooked, but those go in the pot pie for more cooking anyways!

We brined him over night. Cooked it breast side down until the thighs got close to done. Basting it every 30 min. Flipped it breast side up and uncovered to let brown. Pulled it out at around 158-162, then we covered it up. They will finish cooking off the rest of the degrees. Thats why alot of turkeys dry out. We made sure not to cut it for awhile(min 15min). If you carve it to early the juices won't stay in the bird. The end result is a bird that today is still crazy moist(wet).

I have a refrigerator full of turkey at the moment. I'm going to freeze the left overs tonight. We had already frozen half of them. Lol
I had to buy a second deep freezer for the remaining chicken and turkeys I have left to cull. Three females at around 25lbs+(guessing) and 10 chicken roosters. We have a avid hunter that is a friend. She wants to give us their extra deers this year for $0.50 per whole deer(cost of the bullet). I can't turn that down, but I don't know where I am going to put all this meat.

 

[bamadude]

I will store it for u.....in my belly

 

[Tomtommom]

We brined him over night. Cooked it breast side down until the thighs got close to done. Basting it every 30 min. Flipped it breast side up and uncovered to let brown. Pulled it out at around 158-162, then we covered it up. They will finish cooking off the rest of the degrees. Thats why alot of turkeys dry out. We made sure not to cut it for awhile(min 15min). If you carve it to early the juices won't stay in the bird. The end result is a bird that today is still crazy moist(wet).

I have a refrigerator full of turkey at the moment. I'm going to freeze the left overs tonight. We had already frozen half of them. Lol
I had to buy a second deep freezer for the remaining chicken and turkeys I have left to cull. Three females at around 25lbs+(guessing) and 10 chicken roosters. We have a avid hunter that is a friend. She wants to give us their extra deers this year for $0.50 per whole deer(cost of the bullet). I can't turn that down, but I don't know where I am going to put all this meat.

I need a friend like that. And a freezer

 

[BexB]

I will store it for u.....in my belly

LMAO, I can help with that

 

[Carter Critters]

I am in Rainbow City Alabama .. Roll Tide!!!

 

[ThaSilverShadow]

Lol That reminds me of austin powers, "Get in my belly". Lol

Welcome and war... Jk Roll Tide!

 

[bamadude]

Welcome carter

 

[Wisher1000]

I am in Rainbow City Alabama .. Roll Tide!!!

Welcome to BYC and the ALABAMA!! Thread. We are glad you are here and just a post away if you need anything. Tell us about your critters.

 

[Orps]

I've been trying to find a friend all year to hunt a deer for me. Unfortunately none my friends hunts. The closest thing they do outdoor is golf.

 

[Tomtommom]

I've been trying to find a friend all year to hunt a deer for me. Unfortunately none my friends hunts. The closest thing they do outdoor is golf.

None of mine do either. Justin said you can contact processing places and ask about orders that were never picked up (you can see about buying it). My issue with that is not knowing WHY they didn't pick it up.. did the deer sit too long and they think it's no good anymore? Dragged too far? Took too long to die? That makes a huge difference in meat quality. On the other hand, why take it for processing if you don't think it's good.. more likely to be money issues. Got plenty of folks in my neck of the woods that are barely making it.

There's a place on 25 in Calera that does processing.