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@Phaedra subliminally bc, the last 2 times I made turkey, the leftovers are feeding my critters.
I don’t have a garden yet, so I truly enjoy your posts and pictures. I have a lot to do before I can put in a garden. I need to get back on tearing down those old chicken coops. So far, I’ve been mining them for materials to build something else with. LOL
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For YEARS I would pull and cut every little bit of meat off of the turkey carcass.
WHAT AN UN-NECESSARY AND MESSY JOB!!!
Last time (and yesterday) I cooked a turkey in my big electric roaster. For serving I used big tongs, pulled off the drumsticks and the wings, plated Them, then pulled off the white meat, plated That, and left the rest.
I went back when I was cleaning up (bc we 4 will be eating the leftovers tonight,) used the tongs to pull off the bones, separated any big pieces of meat, bagged up the bones, some with meat on them to freeze for making broth (later), then poured off any leftover juices and pieces I missed into 2 quart jars. I also took a spoon and spooned off a lot of grease fat.
There were also a few pieces of meat left in the roaster. Those went to a plate and my cat Mynx got those.
I fed Eva the gizzards and heart and some meat for dinner. There are 2 more meals for Eva in a container in the fridge. She will also get the quart jars for future dinners poured on top of her kibble.
I let Eva and the cats clean up all of the roaster, small crock pot (for boiling the innards in turkey broth previously pressure canned), the cooled pot where I made potatoes first, then gravy, and dinner plates, on the kitchen floor.
It really Does making dishwashing them easier.
That bag of turkey bones with meat, now in the freezer, will make about 5 more quarts of broth, which we use for meals.
I Guess if meat and fowl become hard to come by we will be stretching turkey, but I have discovered that we more often never eat it and I end up throwing away leftover turkey hash.
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