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On Sunday I roasted a 15 pound turkey. It'd been in my freezer for a year, ever since the great Thanksgiving sales of last year. So, when the sales started this year and I wanted to buy another two turkeys---I had to make room for them by tossing the old one in the 'fridge. I couldn't eat Mr Turkey right away since I was going to Kim's that weekend, and then I was going to my parents in SC for a few days before we all went to Georgia to spend Thanksgiving with my brother's family. And, come to think of it, I had turkey at all 3 places... And as soon as I got home from my parent's place early on Sunday I had to take out that turkey and start roasting it. It'd been in the refrigerator for over a week and since it was a year old to start with... but another turkey???!! As you can see in the pic above, I cooked the bird until it's tender thighs were nearly 185f. Yum-yum. And I've had dinner every night this week, Sunday through Thursday, using the breast...

Getting in some practice for Thursday. You gotta love some of these Thanksgiving week sales. I bought a pair of turkeys at 40 cents a pound. One is 15 pounds and the other 16, and each cost about the same as a big sandwich would have in a store. I didn't flip over the turkey when I was roasting it. Turns out that's really a good step to follow. The meat still tasted great but it could have been a wee bit moister. Next time I'll flip it over! The potatoes, on the other hand, were absolutely perfect and the gravy was pretty good.

What a dark day it was... ...when bondage most fowl visited this household. That all sounds so deliciously sinister. But in reality while delicious was an apt description, there was little sinister about the bondage--unless you're either a turkey or a PETA type person. Turkey in bondage = good eats! This was the ultimate destiny of that turkey I bought last week before traveling to SC. Since my parents arrived back home a day early, I never got a chance to make it for them. Then there was a ham for Xmas dinner so this has been the first chance that the poor turkey has had to shine. The fellow weighed in at 16 pounds so even allowing for giving the dog a lot of meat, we still have a long, long ways to go on this bird. And lest I forget, Dell sucks.

I bought a small turkey on my way home from work tonight. The "generic" frozen ones were on sale this week for 49 cents a pound. It's a good price, a decent sale but I got so spoiled 3 years ago. They had turkeys on sale that year for 19 cents a pound. You could get a 20 pound bird for less than the cost of a sandwich! This time around I bought a 14 pounder. I'll pick up another one after T-day if they go on sale. Usually they just put the prices back up to normal tho--in this case $1.19 a pound. Turkey's so easy to fix that it's fun to make but that's a lot of turkey for just me to eat so I tend to only buy it on a really good sale. That way if I end up feeding a lot of turkey to neighborhood critters I don't feel bad. On sale, the turkey costs less than pet food. I wonder if the birds would consider eating their distant cousin? I won't be eating that turkey for a while, it's in the bottom niche in my freezer, but a bottom round I picked up on...