Hey everybuddy! How was your Thanksgiving? I thoroughly enjoyed mine. I did almost NOTHING! lol! It was quiet. All I had to do was prepare the turkey, and the kids helped with everything else. It was wonderful having all of us together, sharing the blessings and the chores, and just relaxing for a whole day.
Ah, but now comes the aftermath! I’m a day late with the Four Foods For Friday, as usual.
Here’s this week’s questions.
1. What do you do with turkey leftovers?
2. How do you make split pea soup?
3. What do you like on top of your pie?
4. What kind of turkey do you usually buy?
1. I *sometimes* save the turkey carcass for soup when I have time, but that hasn’t been in a while. After the turkey cools, I pick off the meat and skin. I save the meat for us, and give skin and scraps to the animals. We eat Thanksgiving dinner a few times over. I rarely make a soup or casserole for leftovers because, well, I don’t like soups or casseroles!
2. I DO NOT make split pea soup. *shudder* That stuff looks and smells like the experiments you get in medical assistant training school. YUK!! However, I do make Black Bean Soup– I’ll have to post a recipe of it. It’s so good, even the children eat it.
3. A little bit of ice cream is very nice. But I usually end up buying whipped topping, because the family likes it, and it’s easy to spray on. I never had the stuff as a kid; I remember always being fascinated with the curly stuff that sprayed out!
4. Anything on sale. I do get a free one every year, but I always try to scarf up sales because we love turkey, and I have a big freezer. I love turkey. I’m glad it’s not our national bird, as Benjamin Franklin suggested, because then we’d all be eating eagle for Thanksgiving….
I hope your weekend is a blessed one! Thanks for reading! 
December 6, 2009 at 3:13 pm
You mentioned a big freezer. The stores around here used to let you get more than one free turkey. My Mom would have two or three birds in her huge freezer.
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!