A few more pics as I finally finished making the turkey stock.
Here's the alert of meat I picked off the backs and necks after roasting but before boiling. I turned all this meat into tacos. It turned out like turkey carnitas, if that's a thing. It crisped a but in its own fast and O cooped up some turkey skin with it that crisped up as well. It was still moist and tender, but tastefully pan fried in its own fat.
Here's the stock when it was cooked down the first time. I refilled the pot all the way to an inch from the top and boiled it down again after taking this picture.
Here's the bags of finished stock. The second one has quite a bit of crushed herbs and seasoning that made it through the sieve. I could add cheese cloth to the sieve for cleaner results, but I see it as pre-seasoning soup, rice, gravy etc. Also, the fat is in the bags too. It's still warm enough to be liquid. In fact, they are too warm to too into the freezer yet.
And lastly, here's the biproduct. Bones, scraps of meat (mostly from the necks which are difficult to pick meat from) and vegetables. I wish I had a good use for this. I once blended it all into meal with my Ninja and then mixed it with cooked rice to produce dog food. That's when I had a real dog instead of a large barking squirrel. I thought today about taking the bones and turning them into meal with the Ninja top use as a garden soil amendment. DD is sleeping though so I decided to not bother this time. The meat is a waste. At this point there are too many tiny bits of bone mixed into the meat for me to bother separated it. The only other idea I came up with is to bag and freeze this and add it to a future pot of stock. I might try that next time too. Today it all ended up in the trash though.
Here's the alert of meat I picked off the backs and necks after roasting but before boiling. I turned all this meat into tacos. It turned out like turkey carnitas, if that's a thing. It crisped a but in its own fast and O cooped up some turkey skin with it that crisped up as well. It was still moist and tender, but tastefully pan fried in its own fat.
Here's the stock when it was cooked down the first time. I refilled the pot all the way to an inch from the top and boiled it down again after taking this picture.
Here's the bags of finished stock. The second one has quite a bit of crushed herbs and seasoning that made it through the sieve. I could add cheese cloth to the sieve for cleaner results, but I see it as pre-seasoning soup, rice, gravy etc. Also, the fat is in the bags too. It's still warm enough to be liquid. In fact, they are too warm to too into the freezer yet.
And lastly, here's the biproduct. Bones, scraps of meat (mostly from the necks which are difficult to pick meat from) and vegetables. I wish I had a good use for this. I once blended it all into meal with my Ninja and then mixed it with cooked rice to produce dog food. That's when I had a real dog instead of a large barking squirrel. I thought today about taking the bones and turning them into meal with the Ninja top use as a garden soil amendment. DD is sleeping though so I decided to not bother this time. The meat is a waste. At this point there are too many tiny bits of bone mixed into the meat for me to bother separated it. The only other idea I came up with is to bag and freeze this and add it to a future pot of stock. I might try that next time too. Today it all ended up in the trash though.
