{"id":135,"date":"2008-11-20T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-11-21T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T13:44:10","slug":"thanksgiving-turkey-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/general\/thanksgiving-turkey-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Turkey Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the week before T-day – what? you haven’t pre-ordered your turkey!
\n Confused about what kind?
\n Heritage, Free-Range, Organic, Kosher, those band of wild turkeys roaming the hood, any ol’ cheap big bird at the super?<\/p>\n

In all my turkey eating days, I have tried cheapo supermarket branded birds, Butterball and Foster Farms…
\n Then I became a food snob and tried Willie Bird, Diestel, Trader Joe’s Kosher, Trader Joe’s natural and a Heritage.<\/p>\n

Hands down, I love my free range Diestel<\/a>. Moist and full of good rich turkey flavor.<\/p>\n

Willie Birds come in a very close 2nd.
\n Heritage – not as meaty, meat is dark and while tasty – quite pricey (boy did I hear it from Mom last year…and still).
\n TJ’s turkey’s are a great buy but it wasn’t as moist as the Diestel and flavor wise – I’d call it turkey lite.<\/p>\n

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Since I have to make about a gallon of gravy this year I bought a whole TJ turkey, boned out the breast and saved the thighs. The remaining carcass went into the oven until golden brown and made into a rich brown turkey stock.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On my list to try is Mary’s Free Range<\/a>(they sure raise some tasty chickens) – maybe after T-day or next year.
\n As for the merry band of turkey’s roaming the hood…no worries guys – you’re safe from me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the week before T-day – what? you haven’t pre-ordered your turkey! Confused about what kind? Heritage, Free-Range, Organic, Kosher, those band of wild turkeys roaming the hood, any ol’ cheap big bird at the super? In all my turkey eating days, I have tried cheapo supermarket branded birds, Butterball and Foster Farms… Then I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}