NH Homesteader- turkeys!

[NH homesteader]

I cooked a heritage turkey for dinner last night. We haven't actually eaten one yet, because we had such a hard time with hatching last year and we ended up raising BB Whites to make up for not having any "real" birds to butcher. It was delicious! And not tough, amazingly! So tonight is turkey pot pie!

Hoping to get the pig dealt with today. It'll be good to reduce the feed bill, in a few weeks we'll have new baby birds on the feed bill!

 

[lcertuche]

I'm jealous. I had to buy a frozen turkey. I plan to have it for Easter. The price was right though, .88/lb. I love a big turkey. It's the meat that keeps on giving, and giving...lol.

 

[NH homesteader]

I am not a huge turkey fan. I cook one maybe twice a year. We will likely part out some of our turkeys this fall, and grind some to make sausage (we can mix it with our pork). Cooking a turkey is just a big affair for me, I hardly ever bother with. Plus there are only 3 of us, so it lasts for way longer than I have interest in eating it, lol. But yes, having home raised turkey is lovely!

 

[NH homesteader]

Turkey pot pie was amazing! Pig will be butchered tomorrow. And I have a bunch of seeds to start. Spring is here!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yum!

 

[Mike CHS]

I like to brine a turkey over night, inject them for some even more flavor and then smoke them.

 

[NH homesteader]

This was good and I didn't even brine it. I didn't season it, nothing. I threw it in a pan with water, lol. That's how much of a slacker I was! But it was delicious!

 

[Mike CHS]

Delicious is all that matters then.

 

[Hens and Roos]

This was good and I didn't even brine it. I didn't season it, nothing. I threw it in a pan with water, lol. That's how much of a slacker I was! But it was delicious!

we cook ours on the grill in a pan of apple juice and it comes out yummy!

 

[NH homesteader]

It is a beautiful, sunny spring day! Bringing the seed starting stuff out to the picnic table in a minute here, and doing the pig this afternoon/evening when it cools down a bit. Doesn't take very long to get a pig in the cooler.

Multiple bucklings born this week for the breeder I am getting one from. Waiting for pictures, should be up today. One in particular I am interested in, he's 25/75 mini alpine (25 alpine, I think I put it in the right order!), which would give me 37.5/62.5 babies when bred to my mini does. As there are zero 50/50's not related to my girls anywhere near me, this will work for me!

Ok going outside and away from the screen. Happy weekend!