Yep,,

Turkey Sammiches,,,

woo hoo !

wheel,

Just had some.....

Breakfast of champions...

bread/turkey/mustard/cranberry sauce/bread.... yummm

I have always wanted to make a turkey frame soup. Thats when you basically take everything left over in the roasting pan, the carcass of the bird, all the little bits of meat that are on it, ect, put it into a big pot with some chicken and vegetable stock, seasoning and veggies then just let it simmer for few hours. Then you pull the turkey frame out, add in some good meat and you have a really tasty soup. Just never gotten around to it.

^always did that with my ham bones...navy bean soup.

try it this year. what could go wrong?

That sounds yummy! Too bad my mother in law was the one who made the bird. I made the ham, which I must say was kick a$$! My first attempt was a success!

Yep.

Have one slice of pizza left.

I have some deep fried turkey.......which I tried to politely refuse.

I don't like the way it taste the next day especially with those nasty injected marinates and forget about eating it cold with all that oil in it.

I'll throw it away later.

Next year I might insist on cooking the turkey myself.....and NOT frying the poor ****.

how was the deep fried turkey when it was fresh and hot...never had it.

I have never thought left over deepfried bird was too bad. I inject with white wine, usually a pinot, then I take a bottle of italian dressing, strain out all the little bits in it, just leaving the liquid. I mix that with the wine. add in some salt and pepper, couple other powdered spices and thats it.

4 - Turkey frame soup is the BEST. That's Saturday dinner every Thanksgiving...

Cook the frame till the meat falls off in chicken or turkey broth, onion, GARLIC, sage, thyme, salt pepper, teensie pinch of rosemary and teensie sprinkle of allspice. When it's through cooking, clean up the frame, add more meat if you need, add mushrooms, celery, carrots..whatever you think it should have. When the veggies are aaaaaaallmost done, adjust the seasoning and toss in some nice, thick, homemade egg noodles or plop some dumpling dough on top.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!

My favorite part is the way the leftover stuffing in the frame cavity seasons and thickens the soup a little......

Burgey

I love deep fried turkey.Always moist and tender....and great as leftovers.The only ones I've had that were oily,as Andy mentions above, were cooked by someone who probably shouldn't be using a turkey fryer in the first place.They insert the bird with the oil temp way to low.I usually bring my peanut oil up to 450(thats right on the edge of burning your oil...ya gotta be careful)before even thinking about inserting the bird.If you don't sear it right off the bat at such a high temp they absorb oil and taste like $hit IMO.BTW the cajun and the butter-n-garlic injection sauces are our favorite.

Ron

We fried 3 Turkeys and Roasted one.

Left over fried Turkey is great.

Sometimes if I have a lot left I make Turkey Gumbo.

wheel,

ron--thanks for the intel...think i will go to wheel's 1 year. 3 fried turkeys--maybe different tastes. sounds interesting.

i figure with all the deliciousness crammed into 1 bird, you really have to try to screw it up.

All my breast meat was eaten by us and our guests...dammit I am not inviting anyone next year, I love me some turkey sammiches. Think I can probably scrape up enough to get one sandwich.

We baked one and fried one, the fried beat the baked again this year for flavor. I found a great recipe last year online which does not even call for injection. I was VERY skeptical, as were all of the people who provided reviews after they tried it.

1 cup creole seasoning

1/2 cup cayenne pepper

1/2 cup black pepper

2 tbls garlic salt

1 16 oz bottle of italian dressing

mix all the spices with 3/4 of the bottle of dressing into a paste. coat the entire out side of the turkey and pour the remaining dressing inside the cavity, let sit in fridge overnight.

It is the most disgusting looking black turkey you will ever see, but amazingly juicy and flovorful throuhgout. Second year I have made it and my guests are alwasy like "eeeew, that looks disgusting...mmmm that tastes awesome"

i would never say it looked disgusting...but i would not take the first bite, either.......ok, i probably would.

Trust me, it looked AWFUL...wished I had taken a picture. Looks burnt, just all of the black pepper cooked on.

but tasty! i am a taste kinda guy...some awesome things look awful!

I suppose I just don't like fried turkey very much.

My dad cooks them that way.......and BELIEVE me........he a stickler for doing things the proper way (engineer with a zillion bucks worth of temp control stuff, etc).

Everyone loves it at the table. I'll have a small piece then look for the ham.

I think maybe I just don't like the seasonings. I like the flavor of a roasted or smoked turkey......lightly brined. The other stuff is a distraction to me.

The next day I can't even eat it...especially cold.

While I can't deny that MOST people really love fried turkey, I think that it is also true that MOST people have never eaten a PROPERLY roasted/smoked turkey. And frying a marinated turkey is an easier way to get good results than roasting/smoking a natural bird.

Anyway.......the fried vs roasted argument has already been done here; so no use started up THAT sit again.

Eat what you like.

I just made a HUGE pot of Tukey Tortilla Soup....

Mmm Mmm Mmmm...

wheel,