Family Of One

Remember on the Saturday before Thanksgiving? When I was at the food bank kind of expecting to get a turkey. I got one last year or even the year before. I was surprised at myself because I grown accustomed to the fact that it was Thanksgiving and I was just going to get a turkey. When I rolled up to the food bank all the other poor people are dragging out humongous turkeys, frozen butter balls tasty Tom's. They also had the bag of goodies that went along with it. The complete fixings for the Thanksgiving dinner. I suppose I'll exert a goofy when I rolled in their expecting my turkey. My buddies who work there again tried to load me up with cans of soup, dried beans, and all kinds of other carbohydrates. I smiled and tried to refuse as much of the food cargo as I could since our he had numerous bottles of peanut butter, dried beans for all sorts of flavors and rice, canned fruit and such. I try to let them down easy so don't think I'm such a jerk but you know I think I am anyway. Finally, we're getting to the end of the selections they were trying to foist on me and one of the women asked if they were going to give me my turkey and money other women, one who's been there for a while and knows the ropes told her that “no, he doesn't qualify is a family of one”. I don't know why but this really struck me like a good slap in the face. I flashed, for one second I wonder hurt this person who said that I was a family of one and therefore I didn't qualify for a frozen turkey. I said something like “that's okay, I just go across the street and buy what turkey at the market.” Clearly, I was trying to hurt their feelings and save my feelings is not face. For that period of time workers realized I was trying to do something and went back and came back with a package of frozen turkey burger patties and the pound frozen turkey ground. I almost laughed but accepted the frozen poultry and my big bag of fictions. The bag affixes is huge cans of evaporated milk, pumpkin, two kinds of dehydrated potatoes, turkey gravy package (just add water) cranberry sauce, stovetop turkey dressing, and on and on and on it was a good-sized bag of fixin's. I'm still embarrassed at my reaction about the turkey and family of one, for a second I certainly had become the worst version of myself.

That was a long lead-in but today I was thinking I wonder if a person was to take that turkey burger, add everything for dressing mix it all together and cook would it turn into turkey loaf? Since all the ingredients are there would it be just like Thanksgiving dinner at least the turkey and stuffing part. So in the excitement I went to work this afternoon. Early on I took the turkey burger out of the freezer and got I thawing. I found a stock of celery in the back of the refrigerator forgotten but still hanging on. It was pretty well dried out at least the outer stocks. I peeled the back and found three or four that was still viable. Chopped Em up, found the same with an onion that had stowed in refrigerator after the meatloaf I made last month. I was getting excited. I the ball of rubbed sage and all the ingredients to the top of the stove in the frying pan and sauté them. I added 2 cups of stovetop dressing in the mixing bowl added the sautéed vegetables and began mixing. I next added liquid for the dressing and mushed it altogether. I mixed a mixed and mixed and the mixture finally came together. I didn't really like the way that it looked but it certainly smelled like turkey and dressing. I found my glass pan and through the mixture in, Molded a loaf through everything in the oven.

I cut the hell out of the mixture. I think the first 30 minutes I was under cooking that I got worried reread the heating instructions and then conducted another 30 minutes at significantly higher level. Next I let the mixture set in the oven turned off the heat and waited for my concoction to cool. I did not want to risk dropping everything pulling a hot container from the oven. It worked. The loaf is golden brown. Whether that's appropriate that's the one look like. Reminded me of a meteor that had fallen the earth. I was somewhat related. I quickly cut the end off and another slice just to see how a cut. My turkey loaf does not taste bad. It kind of reminded me of a cooked version of the purée that I used to have to feed the kids in the clipboard at the state hospital. I did more than one Thanksgiving there and they would get this goop that smell just like Thanksgiving dinner. My turkey loaf smelled and fairly well tasted like Thanksgiving dinner. I ingested the end then cut another slice off just to see how will it cut it did okay. The whole thing would taste better with hot turkey gravy and I have gravy mix, that was part of my food bank box.

Have to admit I'm somewhat depressed of myself, again. I showed him I had a turkey dinner for family of one…