Turkey broth....

 

 

Lunch today :)

 

The turkey broth I made, with onion, garlic, carrots, peas, orzo pasta, half the shredded turkey and topped with a handful of spinach. Served with bread straight from the breadmaker :)

 

 

All the stock is gone but I still have this much shredded turkey left and frozen. Should be enough for a risotto for the 4 of us. 



turkey carcass broth and leftovers......

 

 

Woke up to gorgeous smelling turkey broth this morning! :D

Drained off the broth, look at the colour! This is the half the carcass that hasn't been roasted, just chucked in raw and left overnight.

 

Spent about 10mins picking off all the shreds of useable turkey meat:

 

 

Full bowl full left of turkey meat to go into the soup! :D

No space in the fridge so since its snowing the broth is outside with Clingfilm cooling down, then ill scrape the layer of fat off the top. Meat shreds are in the fridge for now.

 

This is the other half the carcass that I roasted. This one has already been picked clean last night once roasted and I got the same amount, 1 full bowl full of shreds for this soup too :)

The roasting is meant to produce an even darker and richer broth. So into the slow cooker it went with another onion, carrot, bit of garlic (which I forgot last night!) salt, pepper and bay leaf:

 

This will stay on all day on high then ill drain it off and discard the carcass, then sort out wether I will freeze them separately or make up the soup and freeze.



Butchered a bargain turkey.....

 

My mum picked me up a bargain turkey today! 6.6kilos. £5 down from £33.

I debated roasting the bird and shredding it, but decided instead to joint it up, with help from a very long suffering husband!

Wish I'd took pictures of this.

 

So what we were left with were:

 

2 turkey drumstick & thigh joints - I left these as whole joints with the bone in and skin on. Possibly will de-bone and use the meat, use the bone for stock or might marinate and roast them as they are.

 

2 turkey wings - Hubby had a 'giant hot wings' vision and marinated them ready for roasting.

 

2 giant breasts, boneless and skinless - I got 3 bags of cubed breasts from these, each to make a meal for a family of 4. Curries/sweet and sour etc.

 

That left the carcass with still quite a bit of meat on it. Split the carcass in half to fit in my slow cooker. First half went in with an onion, carrot, bay-leaf, salt and pepper and a pinch of herbs, covered with water. I should get plenty of rich stock and a good amount of meat once I strip the carcass in the morning to make a lovely turkey soup.

 

The other half the carcass would've gone in another slow cooker the same, except my other one broke! And the turkey was use by today. So I roasted it off in the oven. It'll give a richer flavour and it will keep another 3 days now its been cooked. When the first lot has finished ill start off the next lot.

 

Potentially 8 family meals from the turkey :)

Choc chip banana loaf...

 

 

Dead easy recipe for a loaf of chocolate chip banana bread:

 

3 x old bananas (mashed)

2 cups plain flour

1/4 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

Pinch salt

100g choc bar (bashed with a rolling pin)

1/2 cup melted butter

1/4 cup milk

2 eggs

 

 

After mashing the bananas I chucked everything into the bowl and mixed it up. Pour into a large loaf tin lined with baking paper. Bake at 190 for about 50mins. This is also lovely with walnuts instead of the choc chips :)