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[pensnest]

So far, we have had:

- roast turkey with roast potatoes and parsnips, spring cabbage and gravy (for three)
- turkey and mushrooms in creamy sauce with mixed grains and chickpeas (pretty good)
- re-heated roast turkey with cabbage and gravy (really awesome gravy)
- turkey doners: thinly sliced and microwaved turkey, shredded red cabbage, onion, lettuce, chopped tomato, and a slightly hot sauce made with mayo, mango chutney, tomato ketchup and hot sauce, stuffed into pita bread (very successful!)
- turkey curry (not my best curry, but no doubt I'll do this again)

And the cats get a spoonful of the chopped meat with their midday snacks, and possibly also with their supper.

We have so far used rather less than half of it.

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I spent part of this morning updating my "what to do when I die" file. It was, surprisingly, quite fun. Not that I plan on dying yetawhile, and I feel fine, but the file needs to exist and needs to be up to date.

So, how are you?

Comments

[frausorge]

Stay strong! stay the course! (Do you do cranberry sauce? I love turkey with cranberry sauce.)

And good for you for getting that info laid out. I have a will and a healthcare directive, but I don't actually have full instructions listed out. hmm.

[pensnest]

Last night's supper was warm turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce and the remainder of the stuffing. (I also approve of cranberry sauce!)

My document, for the moment, is mostly about non-financial matters, as my husband gets everything when I die and there is little in the way of legal steps to be done. But other stuff is definitely better written down.

[spikedluv]

I can't believe you've already had five meals and you're not even half done with the turkey!

[pensnest]

Yeah... it was 6.5kg of solid meat. Yesterday evening we had turkey sandwiches with stuffing and cranberry sauce, and today, a stir fry which was mostly veg but included, sigh, more turkey. We might have to have Quorn escalopes tomorrow just for variety!

[chalcopyrite]

The Joy of Cooking suggests "Leftover Turkey Soup," which is basically chicken soup in a bigger pot, and assumes you're working with a turkey carcass. The New York Times Cookbook suggests "Turkey Hash." Dear food gurus, I am not impressed.

Something involving a grill? Skewers of turkey and pepper and courgette, and maybe a sturdy sort of fruit (my tastebuds are saying pineapple, but they're pretty alcoholic right now, don't trust them) could be tasty with a soy-ginger marinade.

The internet confirms that turkey chili shakshuka is a thing. . . is it too spring-y for turkey pot pie? That has the problem of landing you with leftover pot pie.

. . . The vegetarian will stop having ideas now. :D

(Hi!)

[pensnest]

Ah, I made the turkey stock when the beast was fresh - I'd asked for the bones as well as the deboned bird. And it was very good.

Skewers sound nice, but the trouble is, it is already cooked, so my feeling is that it needs to be immersed in something at least semi-liquid to heat up. Today, we had it with a bunch of spices, mushrooms, dried apricot and kale, in coconut milk.

I'm going to have to look up turkey chili shakshuka, though!

ETA: I looked it up and it looks very nommy!

[turlough]

You're making me hungry, all of those sound SO tasty!