Okay, step by step:
- Family time, outdoor chores: it’s quality time, and builds an appetite.
- Making bread. MMMmmmm!
- Season the turkey.
- Cook the turkey.
- Smash the turkey.
- Add cheese to the turkey.
- Eat turkey with bread.
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Okay!
Are you ready for the videos that cover each of those activities?
First, here is a nice short video, recorded by my brother-in-law, Terrell:
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Okay, apparently, with the YouTube Shorts, it gives you the link, not the video, when I try to copy and paste. I trust you will click on the link, and see a nice family, working on a nice outdoor chore.
Now for making bread, specifically scoring and baking a loaf of sourdough bread (recorded by Ratana):
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That bread looks so good!
Oh, yes, Ratana gave me a loaf of her bread, and the texture of the crust is tough, but the flavor is well worth the trouble of tearing off chunks, to pop in my stew, or in my mouth. Well worth it.
Now we get to the video of me seasoning my turkey:
That pot is a 16-quart pot, in case you want to buy such a pot, to cook your turkey the Uncle Mark way.
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Tramontina 16 Quart Stainless Steel Covered Stock Pot
$51.30
Next, we see the turkey all done cooking. Such a nice color, on the skin:
You see, the secret to getting a turkey out of the freezer and into the pot, is to make plans to record the process, and post the video on YouTube, and copy and paste to Daily Kos. That way, it actually got done.
Ha!
Okay, now we will see the turkey meat all cut up. It looks smashed. Smashed turkey!
Ha!
I bagged most of that up into slider freezer storage bags and put the bags in my chest type freezer.
The flavor was very good.
If any of you try this method of working with a turkey, and you like the results, think of this:
After Thanksgiving, just a few days after, maybe you can get turkeys at a clearance price.
If you have a chest type freezer, you can put one or two in that freezer.
Then, any time of the year, if you crave that turkey taste, you can thaw it and cook it and smash it, like Uncle Mark.
Last night, I was thinking about turkey and cheese sandwiches (made with the thin sliced turkey sold in small packets). I used to make a lot of those for Tonia, a few months before she died. I would make it with:
- Slice of bread.
- Slice of cheese.
- Three slices of turkey.
- Slice of cheese.
- Three slices of turkey.
- Slice of cheese.
- Slice of bread.
So, that made me think:
Remember all the Velveeta style cheese I got free?
I decided I should put some of that cheese in with some of that turkey.
So, I got a bag of turkey out of the freezer, and a brick of cheese out of the freezer.
Here is a video of what came next:
Okay, when that was done heating up for 6 minutes, I took it out and stirred and stirred.
Then I tasted it.
A little too salty!
Oh well.
I think I can water it down with milk, to water down and dilute the saltiness.
And then put it on bread.
As Tonia often said, it’s not that serious. Fix it and move on.
Okay, as a bonus, I will give you my list of ingredients I put in my Ninja blender, to mix up my latest batch of fruit and veggie smoothie:
- Blueberries (I got them as dried, but I put them in water and put them in the fridge to soak for a week).
- Frozen strawberries (for flavor).
- Frozen baby spinach (for iron, etc.).
- Turmeric, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- One apple, cut up, but not peeled.
- One beet, peeled and cut up (for zinc).
- Two scoops of Gatorade powder (for salt and potassium).
- One bottle of bottled water (one half liter).
After that was all smoothly blended, it was very thick.
So, I divided that into four equal parts, poured into four nice clean one-quart Mason jars.
Then I added one bottle of that bottled water (one half liter) into each of those jars, and stirred.
Very tasty.
One more thing:
We have all heard the phrase,
But first, coffee.
But after a nice meal, to avoid dozing off in my chair, I need,
More coffee.
So, I just made a nice video, of me making a nice pot of coffee:
Okay!
Well, take care of yourselves and each other. And drink coffee.
Hugs!