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Cooking & Baking

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Marthe48

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Sun Nov 26, 2023, 04:17 PM Nov 2023

I think my turkey was hacked [View all]

I got a Butterball. I have made several Butterballs over the last 20 years, always a treat and turned out good. This one, no. I prepared and roasted it the same way I always do, and as soon as I took a bite of the drumstick, I knew it was dry. Dry, dry, dry. You know a turkey is dry if you can't down the dark meat without mass quantities of liquid. Really disappointing.
I roasted it Wed. I ate at my daughter's Th. so I didn't have to deal with it till Fri, when I made soup with some of it. Even the soup turned out dry, more like stew. I made some curried turkey salad with some of it too. Good trick is pouring cream or milk over the chopped meat. It soaks in and makes a moist salad. Today, knowing I was on the outer limit of safe leftovers, I just took the rest of the turkey off the bones and making broth. I used my Ninja and ground the rest of the meat. You know it's bad when after 3 pulses there are still chunks of meat on the blades screaming "AGAIN!"

Anyway, it is all ground. I'll make more curried turkey salad. It's good in a wrap with some celery and radishes on the side. Also going to make some turkey croquets. I hate to say it, but this turkey IS a turkey.

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