Member Since: 10 Jan 2010
Location: NW Highlands
Posts: 5107
Went over the 'Mam last weekend and a group of 8 of us plucked our turkeys that had got to a good size roaming a friends orchard.
Thankfully I had one of the bronzes, rather than the blacks that are a bit of a nightmare to pluck.
Only 4.5kg when dressed (loosing body parts, not gaining clothes!) but at least it'll come out the oven the same size it went in, unlike the commercial birds.
That'll be the bird for Xmas day, but unfortunately we'll have to resort to shop turkeys for the 28th as we'll possibly have 18 round the table...talking of Sally Army!
Most of the meat will be our own pork, although depends if any venison finds its way to our kitchen. Black 05 TDV6 HSE Auto
Grey 05 TDV6 HSE Auto (Gone)
54 TDV6 SE Man (killed by me )
21st Dec 2023 7:55 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73134
Re turkeys for the 28th, I’ll have a nose up at the local Co-op to see if they have stupidly discounted birds mid afternoon Christmas-eve. Daft thing is if they do then we’ll freeze the fresh birds (subject to freezer capacity) and scoff the then thawed frozen bird on Monday. Well Monday and the next week.
21st Dec 2023 8:02 pm
mechtrev
Member Since: 04 Mar 2017
Location: N Notts
Posts: 77
no turkey for me
I won't get any this year only in a sandwich
Flying to Tenerife on Chrimbo day for a week
venison can be a bit chewy especially if the game keeper is still in it D3 4.4 V8 2005 sadly now gone
Freelander 2 i6 HSE now gone was a very good 4x4
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22nd Dec 2023 9:08 am
Dexter
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 1394
Aberdeen Angus, 8 rib joint for us, we finally admitted that nobody really likes turkey here 🥳
22nd Dec 2023 10:43 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1626
Funny thing was I was looking at one of those yesterday and was half tempted.
22nd Dec 2023 12:33 pm
Brian Considine
Member Since: 05 Dec 2022
Location: Nr Margate
Posts: 280
FREE from any supermarket if you can run faster than their security.......
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