Since turkey is off menu for a bit...

[PatriotX]

Hi folks,

What is everyone making these days to distance themselves enough from turkey to possibly eat another one in 3 weeks?


After three days straight of red meat, a little tuna salad was in order.




Tuna, lemon, salt, pepper, celery, flat-leaf parsley, mayo, onion optional but recommended.


Served on toast points [great way to use up almost-stale bread] with cucumber and sliced grape tomatoes.





Decent-looking for a can, some stale bread, and the bottom of the crisper.

 

[Golddollar]

I started going through my pantry looking for cans that were past the "best used" date but not by much. I found two cans of grape leaves stuffed with rice that my brother may have left. I think this originated in Greece, but the cans were imported from Bulgaria and marked as being Kosher. So I opened one of the cans up and studied the list of ingredients, and decided I would jazz it up a little bit. So to expand the international connections I added some Parmesan cheese and Tony Chachere Creole Seasoning. It turned out pretty good.

 

[BigBill]

I really enjoyed the left over turkey sammiches this year on home made rolls with mayo. For Christmas it’s the spiral cut ham. With fresh pasta with meatballs, sausage.

 

[PatriotX]

I started going through my pantry looking for cans that were past the "best used" date but not by much. I found two cans of grape leaves stuffed with rice that my brother may have left. I think this originated in Greece, but the cans were imported from Bulgaria and marked as being Kosher. So I opened one of the cans up and studied the list of ingredients, and decided I would jazz it up a little bit. So to expand the international connections I added some Parmesan cheese and Tony Chachere Creole Seasoning. It turned out pretty good.

Wait - you took an expired can of Greek food that had a vacation of unknown duration in Bulgaria...and added stuff to it?

You, sir, win the Cast Iron Gut Award of the week. Well done.



[I love Tony C’s on everything]

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

The girls in my household voted against turkey for the next holiday.
So we are having smoked pork butt, (shoulder) and made into pulled pork. I always buy the bone in pork butt and do the regular spice rub and mop sauce while it slow smoke cooks in the old reliable back yard BBQ pit.
I ended up smoking two turkeys for Thanksgiving and we are still working on about 1/2 of the last one. And have been instructed to smoke two pork butts, so that will mean lots of BBQ since Thanksgiving.

 

[sureshotbob]

Yes we've had enough turkey for a bit.
Last night I wheeled out the grill and grilled a couple porterhouse steaks and did a couple twice baked potatoes with brussels sprouts.
It is a tradition for my Wife to make lasagna for Christmas Eve. but this year she is changing it a bit and making sea food lasagna with lobster , crab ,scallops and shrimp with a white sauce .

 

[ContinentalOp]

Cincinatti-style 4-way chili.

Fish and chips.

Sandwiches.

Way too many burgers and fries.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Cincinnati-style 4-way chili.

You just rang the bell and planned tonight's menu. Skyline is always a hit here.

 

[Golddollar]

It is a tradition for my Wife to make lasagna for Christmas Eve. but this year she is changing it a bit and making sea food lasagna with lobster , crab ,scallops and shrimp with a white sauce .

What time is dinner? I'll be right over.

 

[Golddollar]

Cincinatti-style 4-way chili.

My brother used to live around Cincinnati and I used to partake of this good stuff at the Empress, Gold Star and Skyline chili parlors. Why did he have to move?

 

[ContinentalOp]

You just rang the bell and planned tonight's menu. Skyline is always a hit here.

And that made up my mind about dinner tonight. It's not Skyline, but I like it.

 

[GypsmJim]

Turkey is my favorite food. If I go to a famous and expensive restaurant and they have turkey on the menu that's what I order.

As a kid I had health problems. My memories include being in bed and hearing the rest of the family in the living room on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Maybe that caused my palate to crave turkey so much.

Once my wife suggested something different for Christmas dinner. She learned in a hurry that wasn't a thing to say.

 

[Rpg]

Tonight I’m making wagon wheels, a Marcella Hazan recipe and my granddaughter’s favorite food.

Tomorrow, fried rice with the last of the turkey scraps.

Then PB&J until:
Christmas Eve will be cracked dungenees crab and deli cold cuts. Christmas Day, prime rib with Yorkshire pudding.

 

[Rustyt1953]

This is the traditional appetizer at all chili parlors around these parts.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Well, actually I sat down at the kitchen table and pulled the container of
"white meat" turkey out of the fridge today, to bone the meat and make my last sandwich, so we would have room in the fridge, for when I got back from shopping at 2 pm today.

I brought home Lobster, chicken breast, a Ham Butt and a London Broil, sliced 3/8" thick for jerky, for the smoker, plus a chuck roast for the dutch oven and three slabs of ribs that were $1.59 a pound, for after things settle down.

The meat will hold for three days and then I can put into a Brine for two more days, so nothing will spoil.
Oh, and a ten pond of Pinto beans................just in case.

Yes, I am tired of Turkey !!

 

[robvious]

just finished veggie pizza... have had gyros... chinese... steaks & pork chops... & popeyes spicy chicken... so many choices... & Christmas is going to be smoked prime rib.. same place that did our smoked turkey... looking forward to it

 

[Jessie]

This is the traditional appetizer at all chili parlors around these parts.

Oyster crackers..the best topping

 

[Old 44 Guy]

we are back on a venison diet, I hope. A few chicken dinners will be acceptable however.

 

[carpriver]

Our Thanksgiving Dinner was Alfredo sauce and Linguini and shrimp all fresh made right before my eyes, pumpkin cheese cake.

Christmas dinner is still un planned but I know I will be something wonderful. My Birthday is just before and I sake for a lemon blueberry pound cake with cream cheese frosting and a hearth transplant.

 

[wood714]

You just rang the bell and planned tonight's menu. Skyline is always a hit here.

You're killing me here Rusty!

I liked Gold Star better than Skyline thou.

The best was a little place in Elmwood called the Chili Kitchen. Ate there for lunch during my school years. They ran specials all the time 10 cheese coneys for a buck.