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salmon with thai chili sauce this year. sorry.
I did ignore all the charcoal gray Thursday sales, though, and the black Friday sales too. I’m low on cat litter so I may have to go spend a few dollars tomorrow. what color is that? 😈
The kind I use is corn-based and is yellow, but most of the clay-based is light grey. 😉
Our celebration had a smoked turkey, and it was delicious. Afterwards, I removed the meat from the carcass, then boiled the bones down for soup stock. The boiling allowed all the meat to drop from the bones. I felt through all the meat and skin left from the soup stock, to make sure no bones still within. The neighbor dogs had the skin and bits of meat from the neck and bones put over their dry food. They loved it. The bones will be burned.
No money spent Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun, so far.
You have to be careful about poultry bones and dogs. Most of my chicken stock comes from boiling rotisserie chicken carcasses after having a couple of meals and sandwiches. If I’m not doing doing soup, all of the meat shreds goes to cats and the stock is saved. If you have the time cooking for yourself saves a lot of money.
The problem isn’t poultry bones, the problem is *cooked* poultry bones. In their natural uncooked state they are sort of rubbery and many a coyote or fox has proven that poultry bones don’t inconvenience a canine one bit, to the dismay of chicken farmers everywhere. The cooked ones, however, are brittle and sharp and will perforate dog intestines.
I let someone else do the cooking for my Thanksgiving dinner, which was in the middle of the desert with several hundred other friends, acquaintances, and total strangers (and which did involve the deaths of dozens of turkeys to make it happen, happy?). I don’t have family out here in California so it made more sense than eating a turkey TV dinner at home.
I spent a lot of my life working on Thanksgiving or someplace where it isn’t celebrated, so I ignore it many years, except to get turkey for the cats. There are places I could go but I am used to the solitude.
There are friends that I physically meet only a few times a year because we live so far away from each other. Thanksgiving, for me, is another time to meet them in a place we all love to be (the desert).
That would be like heading to Fairbanks in the Fall for the last time before Winter sets in. A last visit to ‘civilization’ for 6 months. Yes, having a common central location is a good thing. My family is split between SoCal and upstate NY.
That’s true about raw vs cooked poultry bones. When I had a Red Healer, we used to give him a frozen chicken carcass for breakfast. LOL He loved it frozen, and it made it easy for us. We just filled up a chest freezer. 😀 Red’s have a very powerful locking jaw, so he made short work of the carcass.
The local supermarket has been having weekly half-price specials for several months now. I’ve been getting some prepackaged meals & fish, chicken etc. to be baked or roasted. One company does these Southern (US) spiced crumbed chicken fillets that are really good. Been getting good with the Convection oven I got a year ago. They had pre-packaged Turkey thighs @ 50% off so I got a pack. I haven’t had turkey in years. Took awhile to cook but turned out pretty good. 🙂
Turkey thighs are the best of the bird. They have the most flavor, and if you just rub on some oil and spices you are good to go. I usually boil chicken leg quarters to get the meat and stock for soup and casseroles. Warm white meat poultry makes an alright sandwich, but you need the right bread and mayo to add some flavor.
The big problem we had with feeding dogs is the habit of gulping down food without any effort to chew. Sled dogs and German Shepherds are bad about that.