Join me for Zombie Turkey Day!
My mother is planning to sell her house next year (hopefully the market will have recovered a bit more by then.) and so we're starting to look at what has accumulated within the house over twenty years of occupancy.
For the last decade, until my father's health made it impossible for him to live in the house, he'd been generally in charge of both the shopping and cooking. For the most part this worked out very well.
There were a few decisions he'd made that see a little less than optimal, however. In part he'd never gotten the idea that there is a real opportunity cost with filling up the pantry with large numbers of only rarely used items. (A three years plus supply, now, of gallon-sized ziploc storage bags seems a bit much.) And since they had a full-size freezer in the basement he'd buy meats on special to use later.
I was checking out the freezer the other day, and found a frozen turkey. About a twelve pound bird. With a use or freeze by date from Christmas 2005.
This is now, officially, The Zombie Turkey. It is thawing, now.
If the turkey seems sound when I examine it once it's thawed, I shall cook it Monday, and then strip the meat from the carcass to have a nice pile of cooked turkey available for any recipe where I might have used cooked chicken.
Here's hoping that Zombie Turkey is edible!
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Originally posted by artifex
