My turkey adventures continue - yesterday in a cooking fit the gf and I used the last of it with:
- turkey salad with garlic chives
- a sort of creamed minced turkey sauce with cream, romano, herbs and wine. We served it over quinoa and fresh asparagus - it was super good.
- a mincemeat pie
The reason for the chopped/minced nature of the meat was that we were down to predominantly dark meat and a little over cooked white meat - both of which were a bit dry.
The mincemeat pie was my creation - we had marinated some thighs in cider and cider vinegar, thyme, coriander, cinnamon and honey. and the result was a meat that just tasted like it belonged in a mincemeat pie. Which neither of us had ever made, or even eaten. But we faked it well - added some dried apples, cherries and raisins soaked in orange juice, honey, a bit of balsamic vinegar, a little clove, more coriander and sugar. We minced up the turkey, stirred it all together and added it to a (I blush in shame) store made pie crust (I don't do pastry and the gf wasn't up for making her scrumptious homemade pie crust).
Right before serving we splashed some brandy over the top, which livened it up a bit. I wish we had had some citron or candied citrus to add, but alas, we did not. My mother was over for Mothers Day, and thought that a nice whipped cream would be good with it, but the gf said she wasn't sure she could handle the concept of turkey with whipped cream on top.
At anyrate - odd but good. Sort of a brunchy dish.
