Other thank making my turkey-stuffed stuffing, the other thing that got me thinking about blogging today was this article in the New York Times: Food Rules: You’re Dietary Dos and Don’ts, which I found thanks to my (still) favourite blog: Lifehacker. My favourite: “If you’re not hungry enough to eat an apple, you’re not hungry”.
Turkey-stuffed Stuffing
That’s right, who needs stuffing-stuffed turkey when you can have turkey-stuffed stuffing?
With a low-key Thanksgiving dinner for two, a stuffed turkey was really not an option, so, loving stuffing as I do, I went for the next best: stuffed turkey breast…except (again, loving stuffing as I do) I didn’t modify the quantity of stuffing. Instead, I flattened the turkey breast, piled it with as must stuffing as I could, rolled it and tied it with inordinate lengths of cooking twine, and put it in a backaeoffe pan squeezing the rest of the stuffing around the side.
I was quite happy with the result, although there was way more than enough for two (more like 4, with leftovers). Of course stuffing that cooks outside a turkey is very different than that cooked inside, but it gave me a great idea for leftovers: we’ll make turkey noodle soup, and grill the outside stuffing (already partly grilled anyway) into croutons, to be eaten with turkey noodle soup! (And I’ll eat all the inside stuffing because it’s just so tasty).
On the topic of food, ages ago I had a big plan to post recipes on my blog. After 3 the effort was all but forgotten, and I have since deleted the lonely posts, and shifted them elsewhere. I have actually been a “member” of Allrecipes since 2000 (apparently anyway: their memory on this is clearly better than mine). While I have often gone there first to look for recipes for this or that, I had completely forgotten about the membership, and recently rediscovered and actually discovered some of the benefits. Maybe it wasn’t possible before, or maybe I just didn’t notice, but I can keep “private” recipes (such as those that have been taken from elsewhere and therefore they won’t knowingly allow you to publish for copyright reasons), I can keep “web links” to other recipes and other useful sites (in my case I plan to link to sites for ingredient substitution ideas and conversions of various measurements, since I often don’t have or can’t get what some recipes require). The downside of these two functions are that they are not indexed making it impossible to search my private recipes by ingredient, much less the web links. I’ve sent them a suggestion to do the former, but the latter is probably pretty much out of the question (not that I’ve asked). And of course I can publish recipes (although they are reviewed before they are posted) and I can rate and comment on other people’s recipes, and even comment on other people’s comments by indicating whether I found them helpful or not.
So I’m thinking about attempting to document my turkey-stuffed stuffing recipe and trying to publish it on AllRecipes, but I haven’t gotten up the guts just yet…
Anyway, HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING! Especially to those of you (us) without the benefit of the long weekend to truly enjoy and/or recover from it.
