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By: Friends

Friends — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:05:48 +0000

[...] http://gezellig-girl.com/2007/12/05/using-the-whole-turkey/I try to keep a list of things I want to blog about. Sometimes they’re specific (”crazy chips from Big Lots”) and sometimes they’re more vague. Case in point, I’ve had “using the whole turkey” on my list since I came home from my mom’s house over Thanksgiving. [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:54:35 +0000

“Funnily enough, it was being pregnant that made me go back to eating meat.”

Same here: hardcore vegetarian, didn’t even eat Junior Mints because of the gelatin kind of vegetarian, but hot dogs and bacon were the only solid foods I could keep down. Now I buy whole chickens and cut them up myself and strip carcasses and make bone broths without compunction.

Also with you on the no-tripe decree…just thinking about it brings up odor memories of my Nana’s kitchen, that Sunday morning menudo reek.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:51:55 +0000

I’m right there with you. For me though, my reaction to needing to use everything is from a desire to stay away from pre-made soup bases etc that don’t have much in the way of natural stuff in them. Going back to basics is what our family has been doing lately. I have actually carted a turkey carcass on a 6 hour drive so I could go home and make stock. It takes me two days to make stock. :p For those of you who throw out the bones, consider taking them to your soup kitchen, they will use them gladly.

By: Leisureguy

Leisureguy — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:22:19 +0000

Tripe is great in menudo rojo, a traditional New Year's Day soup. Really great stuff. Recipe at the link.

By: tinymich

tinymich — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:51:12 +0000

Oh, and in case it wasn’t obvious from the comment — I’m on your side with this one, both wrt people getting over themselves, and with the respect issue. That’s exactly how I feel about it too.

I still remember being horrified when a girl from Florida said to me at camp one year that she could never eat whole fish or chicken because it “looked like an animal”. She only ate fish fingers and, I assume, chicken nuggets.

By: tinymich

tinymich — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:49:09 +0000

Asians know of whence you speak. We eat every part of the animal except the oink/moo/etc. One of my first meals when I went home this time was pig liver and kidney soup with noodles. My last family meal my mom cooked for me involved chicken, pig stomach, pig intestine and pepper soup. I love tripe (though not Chinese necessarily – the best tripe I’ve ever had was in Florence. *swoon* I still dream of it sometimes.)

About my only line is pig ear. I’m not squeamish about it, but I ate about 3 bites and concluded that I didn’t need to eat the rest. It was crunchy (not my favourite meat texture), and hairy. I can do without eating pig hair, I think.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:49:21 +0000

Funnily enough, it was being pregnant that made me go back to eating meat. After a couple months of being completely averse to anything with protein, I came home from grocery store with a half-pound of roast beef… and ate it all within an hour.

I did not rescue the carcass. My family thinks I’m bizarre enough as it is; I didn’t need to add to it by packing up turkey bones to drive home 5 hours.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:41:38 +0000

Normally I’d be right there with you, picking every last bit off the carcass, making stock with the bones, and ohhing and ahhing over how the beastie is put together.

This year I couldn’t even stand to watch the bird get carved. I think it may have something to do with being pregnant and my aversion to all poultry and nearly all meat. :)

Please tell me you didn’t let them throw out the bones though! You could have taken them home to make stock!