The Old Folks Home

[chickwhispers]

Deb I am positively now. Yummm!

 

[bamadude]

Sorry about your peppers bama. Did you get seeds this year? I forget.

yep all good on seeds.

 

[bamadude]

Hey Bama,  I've had no pc since august something and am just now reading some old entries and got a real hoot out of you comment about not daring to leave your your "sstuff" at home if you came to see me.  Was that because you know something about us old hippies in the famous city of "Keep Austin Weird"?  Or did I somehow let on about my past?  I was a flower child alright with hair almost to the floor.  Guess I'll read some more to see what ya'll have been up to.  : )

idk i have about a $32 buzz going.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks Deb, That is two home grown broad breasted turkey one was a white the 40+ pounds and the other was a bronze 35 pounds. And we are having them cooked for us as the 40 pounder will not fit in my oven or a pan I own. lol
My problem is I always cooked to much food and had 3 fridg's to put it in after dinner. Now I only have one fridg and two freezers. lol So I cannot afford to over do it to much. And someone gave us two more turkey's today. lol They can wait till next month. We will be cooking all the fixings to go with the turkey and ham dinner and deserts. We will be making dressing, gravy, potato salad, english pea salad, lima beans, sweet potato casserole, corn soufle', green bean casserole, ham, mac-n-cheese. I can't even think of what all the kids are bringing. Pies and cookies, cakes and other deserts. I know we will have several family members staying for a few days. So lots of left overs to eat.

Soooo much to be thankful for.... Glad to know its not one whole turkey.....

Hey do you share leftovers with shelters or anything like that? Probably not with the size of your family.

Ooo lima beans.... I love em... I will have to wait for those for New Years Day... they just go hand in hand with Ham.

Have you thought of Taking the turkey to the butcher and having them band-sawed in half? I was thinking of doing this twelve pounder this time like that.... But that's at the grocery store not something raised up at home.

I also want to try my hand at boning a turkey and stuffing it and roasting it that way .... takes the bulk out of the Turkey and I could make stock out of the carcass.... After roasting it with some veggies.... Just leaving the Wings and the drumsitcks for presentation... That way you can spread the white meat out and it is supposed to cook more evenly... Maybe when I move home I will give it a try.


deb
This was our first time raising broad breasted turkey. I did let them get to large they should have been processed at 5 months and I waited 2 months to long. I know last year a lady had to cut hers in half she said she could not get it in her oven. lol DH told his friend how bit this one was and his friend does go all over the state cooking for football teams and the coal miners and caters special events all over the state. He wanted to see this bird so he offered to cook it for us. I am happy about that.
So maybe I will leave the other one in the freezer since we are doing a ham also.
I know alot of ladies on the turkey thread have deboned and cooked their turkey. I have not been doing it that long. But I look forward to learning more ways of cooking and using them. One lady can's the meat and does not add any liquid just salt and pepper. She said as the meat cooks it makes it's own liquid.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Thanks Deb, That is two home grown broad breasted turkey one was a white the 40+ pounds and the other was a bronze 35 pounds. And we are having them cooked for us as the 40 pounder will not fit in my oven or a pan I own. lol
My problem is I always cooked to much food and had 3 fridg's to put it in after dinner. Now I only have one fridg and two freezers. lol So I cannot afford to over do it to much. And someone gave us two more turkey's today. lol They can wait till next month. We will be cooking all the fixings to go with the turkey and ham dinner and deserts. We will be making dressing, gravy, potato salad, english pea salad, lima beans, sweet potato casserole, corn soufle', green bean casserole, ham, mac-n-cheese. I can't even think of what all the kids are bringing. Pies and cookies, cakes and other deserts. I know we will have several family members staying for a few days. So lots of left overs to eat.

Soooo much to be thankful for.... Glad to know its not one whole turkey.....

Hey do you share leftovers with shelters or anything like that? Probably not with the size of your family.

Ooo lima beans.... I love em... I will have to wait for those for New Years Day... they just go hand in hand with Ham.

Have you thought of Taking the turkey to the butcher and having them band-sawed in half? I was thinking of doing this twelve pounder this time like that.... But that's at the grocery store not something raised up at home.

I also want to try my hand at boning a turkey and stuffing it and roasting it that way .... takes the bulk out of the Turkey and I could make stock out of the carcass.... After roasting it with some veggies.... Just leaving the Wings and the drumsitcks for presentation... That way you can spread the white meat out and it is supposed to cook more evenly... Maybe when I move home I will give it a try.


deb
This was our first time raising broad breasted turkey. I did let them get to large they should have been processed at 5 months and I waited 2 months to long. I know last year a lady had to cut hers in half she said she could not get it in her oven. lol DH told his friend how bit this one was and his friend does go all over the state cooking for football teams and the coal miners and caters special events all over the state. He wanted to see this bird so he offered to cook it for us. I am happy about that.
So maybe I will leave the other one in the freezer since we are doing a ham also.
I know alot of ladies on the turkey thread have deboned and cooked their turkey. I have not been doing it that long. But I look forward to learning more ways of cooking and using them. One lady can's the meat and does not add any liquid just salt and pepper. She said as the meat cooks it makes it's own liquid.

for cutting a bird in half thats too big you can use a cleaver and a rubber mallet.... It will go right through the back bone if you want same goes for the breast. I just saw a demo on it on youtube for dividing up a Muscovy carcass.

I too have seen the canning videos on processing all sorts of meat.... just herbage and lightly salt and pepper stuff it in and Can it...

OH by the way... My girlfriend Denies is married to a Sea Captian... He used to run a sort fishing boat here in San Diego. Tuna and Skip Jack and Yellow fin.... he caught about a hundred pound Tuna one year about this time of year. He brought the whole thing home and they canned tuna..... OH MY GAWD....

It ruined me for regular canned tuna. They did it in straight sided jelly jars Lemon slices on the outside then pack the tuna in with whole cloves of garlic... some with hot peppers some with dill ... I forget the other flavors they added. The topped the whole thing off with a drizzle of Extra Virgin Olive oil.

Oh now I want some... But home canned fish in general is awesome

deb

 

[beverly evans]

Quote: Sprouts is a grocery store.... they are mostly organic and have a good bakery. I do not make pie... never have. I could learn but I have other stuff I need to learn other than baking.

Its good for you to have dessert and not feel deprived. even if you are on a "food program". But the deal with sweets or any "redlight" food is you only have it in the house to be consumed with a purpose in mind.... Not sitting infront of the TV with a spoon and the whole pie or tub of icecream. I dont buy big containers of ice cream for that very reason..... Or cookies..or what ever.... So if I want cookies.... I go ahead and buy reallly good ones but one or two at a time....

Like for instance we were talking about biscottis I forget where .... someone said they have big tubs of them at Costco. Well while that was tempting I knew that big tub would probably last two days here. But I did go to Starbucks and pay the whopping price of 1.75 a piece for two.... and sat and ate them with my coffee....

deb

Duh! Yeah, we have Sprouts here too but they are not close by so I seldom go. I do the same. I find the most fabulous cookies, (Belgium butter almond crisps) expensive, but I dole them out to myself 2-3 at a time and put the box away so I forget about it. If I'm going to eat sweets they better be worth the calories! And like you, never big bags or boxes. I do pies only when no one else will. Then I use premade pie crust shells and canned pie filling......easy peasy. Sometimes I'm clueless! For some reason I was thinking tomorrow wasThanksgiving so when I bought the turkey Sunday I let it defrost. Someone called me and put me straight, but now I have to cook the bloody thing or it will spoil. I'll have to buy another one for the one I'm taking to the dinner. I may get sick of turkey! Too many chickens in my freezer to put any turkey in there. Oh well, kinda had my heart set on a sprout pie. Thanks Debbie.

 

[drumstick diva]

"sprout pie?" - what kind of sprouts ?

Your chickens should love it.

 

[beverly evans]

Quote: Thanks Deb, That is two home grown broad breasted turkey one was a white the 40+ pounds and the other was a bronze 35 pounds. And we are having them cooked for us as the 40 pounder will not fit in my oven or a pan I own. lol
My problem is I always cooked to much food and had 3 fridg's to put it in after dinner. Now I only have one fridg and two freezers. lol So I cannot afford to over do it to much. And someone gave us two more turkey's today. lol They can wait till next month. We will be cooking all the fixings to go with the turkey and ham dinner and deserts. We will be making dressing, gravy, potato salad, english pea salad, lima beans, sweet potato casserole, corn soufle', green bean casserole, ham, mac-n-cheese. I can't even think of what all the kids are bringing. Pies and cookies, cakes and other deserts. I know we will have several family members staying for a few days. So lots of left overs to eat.

Hey Chicka, Last year on here, Rosemarie I think, used a "cuts all" (reciprocating saw) to cut her too big frozen turkey right down the middle. Worked great. Talking about 30 pound turkeys.....funny story. When I was young and stupid I lived in Mexico City where at that time (60's) they didn't celebrate the holiday so husband decides to invite all his friends to eat with us. I'd never cooked a turkey, (had barely cooked for that matter) and his brother gifted us with a 30 pound one. In Mexico lunch is around 3 PM and dinner is around 8PM. Well, it wasn't done for lunch and it wasn't done for dinner. I think we finally ate the d*** thing at about 9:30 after we'd eaten everything else! Due partly because I didn't know how long it would take and partly because the oven wasn't hot enough. (Thankfully, I didn't make anyone sick!)

 

[perchie.girl]

"sprout pie?" - what kind of sprouts ?

Your chickens should love it.

A pie from Sprouts grocery store.... LOL. You can even buy a half pie if you want.

PIE from SPROUTS

They also have berry pies and Pecan pies and peach pies and .... ahem...

deb

 

[drumstick diva]