Turkey v3.0 and 4.0
It's been a few days since Thanksgiving and time to feed on more turkey. I considered the turkey sandwich the day after as version 2.0 so time now for the third release.
Take (another) handful of leftover turkey, chop into bite size pieces and set aside. Make a white sauce... a little flour, a little milk, flavour with sage and thyme, season with salt and pepper. In a separate pan, fry some onions until translucent, add some chopped carrots, some beans (mushrooms would have been nice, too, but I didn't have any), then add the chopped turkey. Fold the turkey and vegetables into the white sauce and spread evenly at the bottom of a nice oven-proof container. Top up with leftover mashed potatoes, dot with butter and bake until heated through. This version of a turkey pot pie was especially awesome because Tim made garlic mashed potatoes!
It is day 4 after Thanksgiving dinner. I think this is the last of the turkey except of course for this weekend when I boil down the bones into stock and make some soup.
About Turkey 1.0
We had a wonderful turkey dinner on Sunday night. Eight people for dinner including my nephew Tim, who endured a five-hour Greyhound ride from Ottawa to join us for Thanksgiving.
I love cooking a turkey dinner -- the ceremony around it: making the stuffing, prepping the bird, making the cranberry sauce, the smell of cooking turkey, the frenzied 20 minutes just before everything is ready. I love the yams, the cranberry sauce, the boiled vegetables, the stuffing and the heaping servings of turkey on top of a volcano of mashed potatoes, smothered with thick gravy. Hmmm. I even love the satisfying feeling of exhaustion after everything is all cooked up and ready to go. Everything turned out okay this year and I was thankful that I was surrounded by family, good friends and neighbours and eating a feast. It was a happy day overall.
The only sad thing was the memory of Syd and Tyson. They loved Thanksgiving, too, because they knew they got to eat some after everyone else has gone home. Maybe in doggie and kitty heaven they get to smell cooking turkey all the time.
Take (another) handful of leftover turkey, chop into bite size pieces and set aside. Make a white sauce... a little flour, a little milk, flavour with sage and thyme, season with salt and pepper. In a separate pan, fry some onions until translucent, add some chopped carrots, some beans (mushrooms would have been nice, too, but I didn't have any), then add the chopped turkey. Fold the turkey and vegetables into the white sauce and spread evenly at the bottom of a nice oven-proof container. Top up with leftover mashed potatoes, dot with butter and bake until heated through. This version of a turkey pot pie was especially awesome because Tim made garlic mashed potatoes!
It is day 4 after Thanksgiving dinner. I think this is the last of the turkey except of course for this weekend when I boil down the bones into stock and make some soup.
About Turkey 1.0
We had a wonderful turkey dinner on Sunday night. Eight people for dinner including my nephew Tim, who endured a five-hour Greyhound ride from Ottawa to join us for Thanksgiving.
I love cooking a turkey dinner -- the ceremony around it: making the stuffing, prepping the bird, making the cranberry sauce, the smell of cooking turkey, the frenzied 20 minutes just before everything is ready. I love the yams, the cranberry sauce, the boiled vegetables, the stuffing and the heaping servings of turkey on top of a volcano of mashed potatoes, smothered with thick gravy. Hmmm. I even love the satisfying feeling of exhaustion after everything is all cooked up and ready to go. Everything turned out okay this year and I was thankful that I was surrounded by family, good friends and neighbours and eating a feast. It was a happy day overall.
The only sad thing was the memory of Syd and Tyson. They loved Thanksgiving, too, because they knew they got to eat some after everyone else has gone home. Maybe in doggie and kitty heaven they get to smell cooking turkey all the time.
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