We had decided that we did not want to cook a turkey this year... but... one jumped into our grocery cart at Winco on Tuesday before Thanksgiving, so we set Sunday as the day to cook...
It went pretty easily -- we did less than we've done in the past - just turkey, cranberry relish (already made and in the freezer, left over from last year), green bean casserole minus the onions (just french cut green beans and cream of mushroom soup), poultry gravy (we also had this in the freezer from previous meals), and boiled potatoes with herb seasoning. We are "watching" our carb intake, and, while some of this was not low carb (e.g. potatoes), it wasn't a huge cheat.
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| We had the turkey wrapped in foil in the baking pan, but a little turkey "juice" ended up in the pan and Miss Kitty cleaned it up for us. |
We enjoy having turkey leftovers, and making turkey soup. I made the soup on Wednesday, and cleared a lot of leftover stuff in the freezer, including a couple of kinds of kale, collard green "juice", liquid from some Southern-style green beans, and some chopped onion. I also had leftover zucchini/yellow squash in the refrigerator from a pot luck on Tuesday, and put some carrots and celery into the broth with the turkey. The soup is very green and has a distinct collard/kale taste, which we find to be okay, but which, I am sure, would not be to many people's taste!
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