Farm fresh turkey goes traveling....

Last year's turkey was so tasty we decided to order another one from

Wights Family Farm in Ogden.  We cooked it about half way through

at our house and then took it on the road up to Kamas to finish cooking

there to spend Thanksgiving day with my grandparents, Aunt Kristy, 

and a few of my cousins.

Mabel and her 2nd cousin? Jack are only about a month apart

and they had so much fun playing together

Mabel likes to do "exercises" and she would ask us to name 

an exercise  (jumping, somersaults, etc) and then she 

and Jack would do it over and over again! 

It's crazy how much energy they have.

Somersaults...

This was the point where I was tired of thinking of 

exercises and told them they had to practice being still.

They did pretty good for a few minutes.

 I didn't even get ONE picture of our feast and my 

glorious turkey! Everyone contributed tasty sides

and I had waaaaay more than my share of my Aunt 

Kristy's creamed corn. So good.

This is what our food coma looked like:

Nate was so full he had to sit in 

Grandpa's wheelchair and be pushed

around the house. 

So this picture is kinda gross looking but I was 

so proud of myself for making turkey stock from  

the leftover bones/carcass. (kinda makes me gag saying carcass)

I had stuffed the turkey with onion, garlic, and lots of fresh

herbs (thyme, sage, rosemary, and parsley) and it made the 

stock so tasty. I added a few carrots and let it simmer all day.

So easy. Why haven't I done it before?

Nate picked the meat off the bones and we strained it

several times and it was done!

It made A LOT. The only bummer thing

about putting it into this container is every time 

I opened the fridge I would almost grab this thinking it 

was some kind of tasty juice.

I used the stock as my base to make turkey soup 

and we lived off of that for a few days with some 

artisan bread from Harmons.