I like turkey leftovers so much that I cooked another turkey this weekend. I kept it simple: no stuffing, no fussing. I did put butter under the breast as some recipe assured me that it would make for wonderfully moist breast meat. However, there was no discernible difference in the finished product and I won't bother with that again. I salted the bird, put broth in the roasting pan, threw the neck and giblets in the broth, and put half a lemon and some garlic in the bird's cavity. It smelled wonderful, but again, no discernible difference in the finished product.
Even before dinner, I took all the meat off the bones, threw bones, drippings, skin, and giblets into a soup pot with water to cover, and started cooking the broth (with no additions this time). I even left it cooking overnight (on low), then brought it to a boil again in the AM before I strained and cooled it. I'll make soup with it today.
The next dinner was a "King Ranch casserole" to use up a bag of stale tortilla chips that had been in the pantry a looooonnng time. The recipe was pretty much straight from the Joy of Cooking and the same or similar recipes are on Allrecipes. It was pretty good.
Last night's dinner didn't quite work out, shall we say. I made pork chops with sauerkraut and apples, but instead of just making it the way I thought it should be made, I followed a recipe from Allrecipes that called for a huge amount of brown sugar. I would normally just add a little sprinkle. What the heck, I thought - maybe the kids will like it better if it's really sweet (not really thinking that one kid wouldn't eat it under any circumstances, and the other doesn't even like sweet foods). It was disgusting. I almost never throw food out, but this had to go. Note to self: you do better when you just cook. Forget all the recipes, already!
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