All things Turkey!

I have a lineup of delicious turkey recipes for you that we used for hosting our 2023 Thanksgiving dinner at our house.

These 3 recipes will help you use the entire turkey, so nothing goes to waste.

You’ve got the turkey recipe, the gravy recipe, along with the bone broth recipe.

If you’re used to dry turkey, the secret I found was to brine it. This was my first year doing so and wow… each bite was phenomenal. Juice and tender, even the breast meat.

Click here to follow this brining recipe and how to cook it in the oven from a fellow farmer. I didn’t change a thing here. I did cook mine for 15 minutes per pound which worked great because I didn’t have to add extra time on at the end to get it fully cooked.

Once cooked you’ll want to make gravy with the drippings. Click here for the recipe.

Here is your recipe on how to carve the turkey. This was the most helpful video I found and it make carving it very easy. Here is the recipe on how to carve.

Then once you’ve all enjoyed dinner, pull out your crockpot, and put all the bones in it. (Or you can use half and freeze the other half of bones for another batch.) You can throw in the onions that cooked in the middle of the turkey too. Fill the crockpot with water until the bones are completely covered. I cooked for 20 hours on low. After those 20 hours, remove the bones and particles by using a strainer or cheese cloth and store the liquid in jars or containers and freeze. I yielded 4 quarts of turkey broth that I’ll use in future recipes.

That’s it! You are now covered on start to finish on how to cook a juicy turkey for a holiday meal or take advantage of the turkey sales at the end of the year to make meals in the winter.

Brining the turkey for what turned out to be the juiciest turkey I’ve ever had!

The finished product!

The 4 quarts of turkey broth I yielded from the bones of the leftover turkey.