So, what do YOU do with your giblets?

[Deb in IA]

Well, I guess technically, not YOUR giblets, but the giblets from your Thanksgiving turkey.

We've always cooked them up and eaten them, along with the bird. And I've heard of some folks chopping them up and mixing them in with the dressing - at least the organ meats (it might be hard to do that with the neck). But I was surprised to learn that some people throw them away . . .

So, what do you do?

 

[tlgoblue]

It depends if DH is in the room or not! If he's not, they get put in the dressing. If he is in the room, they go in the trash. Whichever the case, they do get boiled up and we use the broth for the dressing.

 

[1stNoel]

Cook them up for dog treats.

 

[Mermaid02]

Originally posted by 1stNoel
Cook them up for dog treats.

yep those are the Dog's Thanksgiving treat!!

 

[Micca]

My parents used to make giblet gravy. We just throw them away.
DW won't even reach inside the bird to get the little packet out

 

[becka]

My Mom makes giblet gravy...yummy!

This year our turkey is coming to us pre-cooked and I don't know what the store does with the giblets...maybe they come on the side?

 

[helenabear]

We usually cook them and give them to the pets

 

[oogieboogie]

giblet broth for gravy. Then I take the giblets and sautee them for the cat. Tiki is very thankful during Thanksgiving.

 

[Disney_1derland]

Boy, it gets personal around here on the holidays, huh?

My first thanksgiving being the cook and being 2500 miles away from Mom I forgot about the neck and giblets and cooked them in their little paper bag inside the turkey

Since then I have learned to boil them for the broth and use that broth in the stuffing and gravy. The actual parts go to the dogs once I've boiled them for broth.

 

[Mary Ellen]

Any giblets I find in our birds go in the trash as quick as possible.

 

[missypie]

If you must know, I put them in the fridge, intending to do something with them later, and then I forget about them until they start to smell, then I throw them out. Happens every year.

 

[Christine]

Dog treats! They LOVE them.

 

[phorsenuf]

Originally posted by Christine
Dog treats! They LOVE them.

My dog won't eat them and neither will my cats! LOL

I certainly don't! <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008_ZNxmk047YYUS' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_2.gif' alt='Blah' border=0></a>

 

[binny]

toss em YUCK

 

[meeshi]

Ick, they go right in the trash.

 

[Pam]

They get tossed.

Although, usually the turkeys I cook are wild ones my husband and son shoot, so I don't have to deal with that very often!

 

[LadyBears]

I have always tossed them. I didn't think they were edible.

I guess since I now know they are - I will cook them & give them to the dogs. If they don't eat them - then I know my first instincts were right.

 

[danacara]

I hold the giblet baggie with my thumb and forefinger and deposit it in the trash ASAP. It's odd, I like the surgical TV shows, but giblets are just a little too close to the heart and soul (literally) of my dinner.

 

[Annette_VA]

Since any attempts I've ever made at making gravy have been disastrous, they go in the trash. You'd think after all those years of helping my grandma make giblet gravy, I'd have learned something, but nope...

 

[Mermaid02]

Originally posted by LadyBears
I have always tossed them. I didn't think they were edible.

I guess since I now know they are - I will cook them & give them to the dogs. If they don't eat them - then I know my first instincts were right.

BELIEVE me, your dogs will eat them!! Be sure not to burn them when you boil them- takes forever for the you to get the smell out of your kitchen!