Thursday, November 24, 2005
Mmmm… Turkey
The turkey came out amazingly tasty; good flavor combination. It was maybe a little overdone, but if so, not by much. I don’t think it was the best quality bird ever, or it was a very active one or something. It has about the darkest dark meat I have seen, and that meat is rather tough and stringy. Much of it is going into soup.
Everything else was good, too, and I managed to pull off having it all done at the same time, despite having four burners and five things to cook on said burners, one of them in two steps in two separate pans. Sometimes I don’t synchronize closely when there are only three hot food items.
The candied sweet potato is just about to die for. I experimented, using maple syrup as an ingredient, and adding a small dash of ginger and a pinch of nutmeg. So it’s three sweet potatoes, a decadant amount of butter, some water, some brown sugar, about 1/3 cup of real maple syrup, and the bit of spice that could have been left out as it was too little to notice. Looks like some people use syrup exclusively, some use no butter or no water (which I could have reduced or possibly even eliminated easily), some use ginger (the nutmeg was my idea), and some use liquor.
Poor Sadie was having tooth issues and ate almost nothing. Basically just all the cranberry sauce and a little of the sweet potato, maybe a bite of turkey. A little while ago she felt better and got hungry, so this time she ate some of most everything, especially the turkey and sweet potato, before falling asleep in her chair. Poor kid. We find sometimes she’s well off to take little catnaps like that, then wake up and keep eating if she wasn’t done.
I just put the carcass into the crockpot to boil down for soup. We may have to find someone to share it with though; maybe take some to my brother’s house.
Sadie calls…