Deep Fried Turkey

[JediJaida]

Okay, back to the turkey!

YOWZA! That thing looks great!

[Hector]

I actually get to fry the turkey leftovers by making Mexican turkey flautas...mmm...super awesome...

[Hector]

That looks so moist and delicious!

[warlock664]

This topic has strayed a bit (scrapple? ) ; let's get it back on track:

[JediJaida]

Remind me to avoid it.

[Rallygirl]

What in the heck is scrapple?

Have you every heard of using every part of the pig except for the squeal? To make scrapple one takes all the trimmings, leftover organs, and even boils everything off the head and bones, chops it all up, and in our recipe, mixes it with cornmeal and seasonings to make a meatloaf of sorts. You then slice it off and fry it like a sausage patty and eat it with syrup. I am more country than I care to admit, but scrapple, balkenbrij, and headcheese are just too much for me.

[JediJaida]

What in the heck is scrapple?

[Rallygirl]

You haven't lived until you have tasted it. Cut off a hunk of that grey goodness, fry it in a pan....it is good eats. My dad loved it along with SPAM (never understood why he liked SPAM until I realized that this was handed out as military rations...he was in the Korean War and always had a can of SPAM around). Earlier this evening; I was at a friend's home (my daughter and her daughter along with other friends were all going to Homecoming). She had some finger foods and wine. I tasted some awesome Salami and she immediately told me it was Venison and didn't want to weird me out or anything. Didn't bother me at all but noticed that most of the females there would not touch it. It didn't have a gamey taste and was just downright "awesome". I told the ladies who scrunched their noses that I don't understand why they can eat pork or crustaceans who eat some really nasty stuff but scrunch their nose at deer.

Oh, I have tasted it, all right. And that taste was enough for me. LOL

I can eat vension if someone else has cooked it. But if I have to do the cooking, I cannot eat it. To me, venison has a VERY gamey smell while it is cooking; just a little too gamey. Of course, it also depends on where the deer lived. Corn fed venison is much better than dark ol' swamp bucks.

[Adam West]

You haven't lived until you have tasted it. Cut off a hunk of that grey goodness, fry it in a pan....it is good eats. My dad loved it along with SPAM (never understood why he liked SPAM until I realized that this was handed out as military rations...he was in the Korean War and always had a can of SPAM around). Earlier this evening; I was at a friend's home (my daughter and her daughter along with other friends were all going to Homecoming). She had some finger foods and wine. I tasted some awesome Salami and she immediately told me it was Venison and didn't want to weird me out or anything. Didn't bother me at all but noticed that most of the females there would not touch it. It didn't have a gamey taste and was just downright "awesome". I told the ladies who scrunched their noses that I don't understand why they can eat pork or crustaceans who eat some really nasty stuff but scrunch their nose at deer.

[Rallygirl]

One thing I love about Thanksgiving is that there really is no right food to serve. The food has never mattered to me. It is the one holiday which our family really tries to make a real effort to spend time together which is the most important part to me. I could eat Scrapple for all I care.

You had me up until the scrapple part. No amount of syrup can make me eat scrapple.

[Adam West]

Great picture...the two I have seen had full feather flocking so maybe I passed by more and just never noticed. One thing I love about Thanksgiving is that there really is no right food to serve. The food has never mattered to me. It is the one holiday which our family really tries to make a real effort to spend time together which is the most important part to me. I could eat Scrapple for all I care.

[Rallygirl]

Turkeys are not scarce around here.

[HardyGirl]

Since I have spent the last couple of Thanksgivings alone, I like to make my own version of fried turkey. I buy turkey cutlets, cut them into strips and make them like fried chicken, (egg wash, and coating made from flour, Italian style bread crumbs, poultry seasoning, broiled chicken seasoning.) It's really good w/ all the Thanksgiving side dishes.

[Rallygirl]

I live in Western Maryland and have a vacation home in West Virginia. I have seen just about every wild animal indigenous on the East Coast. Ironically, I have only seen two turkeys in the wild ever. Maybe they are more prevalent in New England, but odd that I don't see them much. Deer on the otherhand....wow, in some areas in West Virginia, I think you could just shoot a gun in a field not aiming at anything in particular and hit one.

Around here, there are a lot of turkeys. They walk around in flocks of 20-40 birds. They tear up yards, run in front of cars and wreck shingles on roofs. I'll have to find a few pix.

[Adam West]

,...or shoot your own turkey. Oops sorry, the redneck in me escaped again.

I live in Western Maryland and have a vacation home in West Virginia. I have seen just about every wild animal indigenous on the East Coast. Ironically, I have only seen two turkeys in the wild ever. Maybe they are more prevalent in New England, but odd that I don't see them much. Deer on the otherhand....wow, in some areas in West Virginia, I think you could just shoot a gun in a field not aiming at anything in particular and hit one.