CLOSED in big bold letters was printed on a piece of paper taped to the door. There must be another store that's open right? I bet the other super market, Stop N Shop, is open, or Trader Joes, or Whole Foods, or maybe the Greek grocery has turkeys??? Nope. I walked home chilled to the bone still turkey-less with tears welling up in my eyes. I felt defeated. How was I going to break the news to my roomies who were expecting a turkey for Thanksgiving?? Kavan, however, was still out in full force biking to any grocery or convenience store that showed up on the google map search. He was determined to be the victor of this Thanksgiving Day fiasco. As the day went on, the probability that he would even find an open grocery store was diminishing by the minute.
Who would have thought that the turkey-that-almost-wasn't was the best Thanksgiving turkey I have cooked to date. A little over 2 hours into the search, Kavan rang with good news. He had found a turkey, and better yet, the turkey had been killed under kosher rules the day before. (The owner of the Middle Eastern hole in the wall grocery had a few no shows for their turkey orders this year.) SUCCESS!!! Kavan saved the day, and in all of the excitement even remembered to get the ingredients for our Salty Chihuahuas and Cranberry Spritzers. That's my man <3
I don't know if it was the salty chichuahuas or the cranberry spritzers, but I didn't manage to get a picture of the crispy brown turkey when it was all said and done. Luckily at dinner Kavan mentioned how his Mom, Kate, makes broth out of the turkey carcass and creates unbelievable soup from it. I had just found my new project for the break! :) Kate was kind enough to send me her recipe on how to make broth, and now I have 5 frozen ziploc bags of yummy broth stored in my freezer, in addition to the broth used in the soup. For the soup recipe, I didn't really use one. I looked up some recipes online, and kind of did my own mash up of their ideas. I remembered my mom always fixing soup with wild rice when I was younger so I wanted to incorporate that into the soup, plus of course the usual carrots and beans and chunks of turkey. Add some seasoning and Voila! Turkey Soup :)
Luckily, I has not had any salty chihuahuas before cooking the soup, and happily captured some images of the after-turkey cuisine.
MMMmmmmmmmm :-9
