It may be Spring, but today is Thanksgiving

I picked up a bone in turkey breast the other day, decided it was time once again for a turkey dinner.

Rather than cook it upright, I spatchcocked and split it into two halves, much easier to cook that way. Seasoned with Plowboy's Yardbird and ready to go out on the Goldens', running indirect -



Cooking away, took about 1 1/2 hours at a temp just upwards of 350F. Final temp, the usual 165F -



In the meantime, you can't have a turkey dinner without cranberry sauce -



With the backbone and some assorted trimmings I made a turkey stock for gravy -



Resting -







Sliced and ready to serve -





A Thanksgiving dinner with the fixin's! -







All in all, a great Fall dinner in the Spring!

Thanks for checking in on tonite's dinner.

Regards,
-lunchman

ronbrad62 said:

Everything looks perfect, Dom! Did you have the cranberries frozen? I tried to find some once for a test recipe and couldn't because they were out of season.

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Hi Ron,

Yes, the cranberries were frozen. My wife was doing a freezer dive a few days ago and reminded me there were three bags of cranberries. That was the inspiration to buy a turkey breast, plus it was on sale. :mrgreen:

-Dom

Turkey Pot Pie

Thanks everyone for the kind words, much appreciated.

As with most Thanksgiving turkeys, the big question afterwards is what to do with the leftovers? I had one additional turkey lunch yesterday, but the rest was destined to become Turkey Pot Pie!

I'll spare you all the dicing and slicing of the veggies, but I diced up potatoes, carrots and celery. The potatoes were pre-cooked to soften them a bit in the microwave, as were the carrots and celery. (A little splash of water, then covered with a damp paper towel.) I loosened up the gravy with a bit of milk, heated it on the stove and added a bit more seasoning. I diced up the second turkey breast having removed the skin.

After mixing it all together, here it is in my large pie pan, ready to be topped with store bought pie dough. I seasoned it with a bit more Plowboy's. Frozen peas were added as well -



It's a good thing I have this large pie pan as this sucker is filled to the brim! A quick egg wash and into a 400F oven for about 45 minutes.

It's ready -





Plated -





There's still quite a bit left and somehow I left a lot of filling behind on these first few servings. It won't go to waste, that's assured! -



As always, thanks for following along on these fun turkey dinners in what's supposed to be Spring. (Snowed here in Massachusetts overnite). :mmph:

Regards,
-lunchman