Turkey disaster

[Titan]

Acquired a lovely boned turkey roll from the organic butchers.
Basic failure to research cooking times meant the bird was quite raw when we served it. Al back into oven for another hour and half.
Finally sat to eat, pissed and hungry, to torched outer and raw stuffing with assorted carbon accompaniments. Filling the gap with a couple of bottles of bubbly didn't turn out to be the answer.
Last year we had goose but that was left in the oven for too long and had vanished leaving only bone and crispy skin with fibrous matter.
I expect we will do something similar next year.

[Biggsy]

Is that American pissed or British pissed? 

No need to serve undercooked turkey or chicken even when you don't know the cooking time.  Insert skewer and examine the emerging juce.  Cook it some more if the juice is bloody - until the juice runs clear.

[benborp]

Doesn't sound too bad. Two doors down had the fire brigade out. Breathing apparatus and everything.

[Jaded]

That's sprouts for you.

[hellymedic]

That's sprouts for you.

 

We had a perfectly nice Christmas Dinner without sprouts.

[Canardly]

hoot...

[Torslanda]

That's sprouts for you.

 

We had a perfectly nice Christmas Dinner without sprouts.

Heretic! Burn her! You can't have Xmas dinner without sprouts . . .

er . . . oh! Hang on. Kosher sprouts?

[Canardly]

£40 Turkeys were discounted to £6 today in Tesco. Plenty of opportunity for practicing thinks.   

[hellymedic]

That's sprouts for you.

 

We had a perfectly nice Christmas Dinner without sprouts.

Heretic! Burn her! You can't have Xmas dinner without sprouts . . .

er . . . oh! Hang on. Kosher sprouts?

Do you know how difficult it is for the ultra-orthodox to eat 'truly kosher' sprouts?
All possible insect life must be excluded. This usually entails cutting and soaking in salted water, followed by rigorous inspection. Unless you loved sprouts, would you bother?
Actually, I don't do kosher...
 

[Edit] I thought I'd find out about how to check sprouts for wildlife to cause problems with kosher sprouts; my first Google hit suggests fresh sprouts should not be eaten...
http://star-k.org/cons-vegdetail.php?ID=13

[Titan]

We have taken the remains of the awful bird and are trying to make an edible hash from nigella law sons book. I am dubious as I can't make turkey, red peppers , olives and stuff sound appetising and though there is a picture it does not look like actual food that someone would eat.
I have not mentioned my misgivings though as the titanete thinks nigella is a goddes. Plus she has a thing about parsley which she thinks is lovely and this seems to have parlsey all over it. Personally I have never got the point of parsley, I think it tastes like weeds.
Thank heavens for a supply of leffe beer which seems to fix most things. And a ham sandwich.

[Biggsy]

We have taken the remains of the awful bird

That's no way to talk about your lady.

and are trying to make an edible hash

Well, it's less unhealthy than smoking it.

from nigella lawsons book.

I'd imagine she's less sexy, but also less annoying, in book form.

More cheese, vicar? 

[Peter]

Relevance fail.  I thought there's been another earthquake - or they'd found Deano's socks.