Turkey Preparation Ideas

"So I've been toying with buying an Inkpot turkey on and off for the past year since Hannah started selling them. Firstly, the cost put me off - £40+ seemed like a lot to spend on one bird, until I asked around and realised I was very much out of touch with what intensively farmed shop/butchers turkeys cost. There's also only two of us eating meat on Christmas Day in this house, and I really didn’t want to have to think about making a thousand meals with cooked turkey.

However, after reading another person's review about how they cooked the whole bird and then portioned it up and re-freezing, I thought I would give it a go. So I bought a bird, defrosted it in the fridge for 48 hours (it defrosted enough for me to joint it) and now I have a re-frozen turkey crown for Christmas day, and enough portions for at least 10 meals (including soup and stock from the bones yet to come.) Result!

Be aware with re-freezing - as long as the defrosting is done in a fridge, for a maximum of 72 hours, you can re-freeze the meat. If you take off the drumsticks and wings first after 48 hours, it will then allow more air to the rest of the bird, and it will be easier to joint it. Below is a 9lb bird jointed."