Fruits of my labor

[CanadianBlackBears]

We don't have wild turkeys here other than my hunting buddies but we have Canada geese which we boil and pluck. The skin on a goose is what gives the meat great flavor. Wouldn't it be the same for a turkey? I know when we buy domesticated turkeys at the grocery store the skin is on them and my wife cooks up a a turkey that no other person can. I can't imagine cooking a turkey without the skin, wouldn't it be dry tasting?

[deutze]

everything down here is batter dipped and deep fried, didn't you hear? lol, j.k. nobody I know goes to the trouble of plucking one, usually just skin it out and filet the breast, maybe make soup with the rest if ambitious.

[CanadianBlackBears]

everything down here is batter dipped and deep fried, didn't you hear? lol, j.k. nobody I know goes to the trouble of plucking one, usually just skin it out and filet the breast, maybe make soup with the rest if ambitious.

Hahahahaha....It wouldn't be dry if you deep fry and batter dip but what if you bake it. My wife bakes the turkey and man, let me tell ya, there is no finer, mouth watering taste than her oven baked turkey, well her baby back ribs in her sweet, hot sauce might be a close second.

Getting back to the skinning, once a goose, which is the same size or bigger than a turkey, is boiled the feathers pretty much fall off and it's ready for the oven.

[TerribleTed]

Well since most of meat on a turkey is bad i mean over 50 percent is nasty breast meat ,it need moisture added. After you discard the breast you have some succulent tasty dark meat that's juicy and tender.


Yea with out the skin you cook it different. I will seal in foil with butter onions and other seasoning and slow cook in the smoker. Or like i posted above make Turkey spread always good juicy then. Nothing better than an turkey sandwich with real cranberry sauce.

Really if i was going to make a turkey dinner with one i would pluck it.

[Iluv2hunt]

I am not a white meat poultry eater either. But fried turkey breast cut into strips is one of my favorites to come out of the woods. Turkey breast and gator tail are two meals I can cook and am guaranteed to get nookie

[CanadianBlackBears]

I gotta get me some gator tail and wild turkey if I can get me some nookie.

I kinda figured you must cook it different if you skin the turkey or it would be dry. I bet when you seal in foil with butter onions and other seasoning and slow cook in the smoker it would be some tasty. Now it's makes sense to skin it rather than pluck it.

Cheers and safe hunting
Rob

[treefarmer]

About out of venison sausage, needed a little for the kids to take home after Thanksgiving, made a little over 20 pounds Friday night and then smoked them today. 5 pictures of the project, grinding, stuffing, Beargrass used to hang meat in smokehouse and finished product.

Treefarmer

[treefarmer]

Sausage cont'd...

60% venison 40% pork

[davedirt]

Recipe please.................

[treefarmer]

davedirt, The recipe is simple for a 60% venison/40% pork sausage-
Leggs pork sausage seasoning (package instructions plus the below additives)
sage (0.13 tablespoons per pound of meat)
cayanne pepper (0.065 teaspoons per pound of meat)
prague powder (Number 1 pink curing salt) use package instructions

Season, mix, grind-twice (course then fine), stuff casings (also works as bulk) then smoke.

Smoked for 5 hours - internal sausage temp got to 115 degrees, then used gas burner to raise internal temperature to 160 degrees ( took about 15 or 20 minutes) shut of gas and let wood burn completely down. Removed sausage from smokehouse after about 5 hours of cooling - internal temp was down to 60 degrees.

(The odd amounts per pound of seasoning comes from trying to duplicate the same taste year after year. Not as critical as it might seem except for the cayanne, you can over do it!)

Treefarmer

[Iluv2hunt]

The Leggs seasonings are great

[Christian]

Good thread and info guys. Thanks.

[foreboding]

What a great thread! Learned some stuff. Thanks-

[nachogrande]

now I love a good wardrobe malfunction with a nip slip from someone like J-LO, but that was just nasty, lol.

[drgn4sr]

X2 u beat me to it.