So, what do YOU do with your giblets?

[mum4jenn]

WOW!!! I have never heard of people throwing them away!!!!! This is a FIRST!!!!!!

My mom and now I have ALWAYS used them in GIBLET Gravy. I am curious...if you have gravy with your turkey what kind do you have if you throw the giblets away?????? Maybe this is a southern thing.....I just have never heard of throwing them away. The Publix I have been in even sell containers of these so if you need extra you have them.

I chop them up real small and add boiled egg chopped real small.I use the pan drippings and make a normal gravy just as I would any other gravy but I add the minced giblets and egg. I don't know of any other way to make it. The canned stuff is AWFUL!!!

 

[Mermaid02]

My mother always makes gravy out of the pan drippings.... greasy for sure, but very tasty!! Not a giblet in sight!

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

We have the choice here to buy the turkey with or without giblets!

We boil ours to make a stock to use in the gravy.

 

[Laurajean1014]

I cook them and wait to cool before offering them to my dogs! They are very thankful!

 

[meeshi]

Originally posted by mum4jenn
WOW!!! I have never heard of people throwing them away!!!!! This is a FIRST!!!!!!

My mom and now I have ALWAYS used them in GIBLET Gravy. I am curious...if you have gravy with your turkey what kind do you have if you throw the giblets away?????? Maybe this is a southern thing.....I just have never heard of throwing them away. The Publix I have been in even sell containers of these so if you need extra you have them.

I chop them up real small and add boiled egg chopped real small. I don't know of any other way to make it. The canned stuff is AWFUL!!!

I don't make GIBLET Gravy, I make TURKEY Gravy. I just take the drippings from the pan and add flour and broth. You add a boiled egg to your gravy? I have never heard of that.

 

[LadyBears]

Originally posted by meeshi
I don't make GIBLET Gravy, I make TURKEY Gravy. I just take the drippings from the pan and add flour and broth. You add a boiled egg to your gravy? I have never heard of that.

Same here & same here

I make TURKEY gravy from the drippings in the pan.

What does the boiled egg do? I have never heard of putting egg in any kind gravy.

 

[mum4jenn]

I chop them up real small and add boiled egg chopped real small.I use the pan drippings and make a normal gravy just as I would any other gravy but I add the minced giblets and egg. I don't know of any other way to make it. The canned stuff is AWFUL!!! [/B][/QUOTE]

I would guess that it is a Southern Thing. Even the restaurants have "giblet"turkey gravy.


The boiled egg doesn't "do" anything!!LOL!!! It is a part of the gravy along with the heart,gizzard and liver.

 

[disneyluvers]

My mother taught me to boil them with the neck then add wide egg noodles and make a soup of sorts. Then I promptly take the still hot pot to my grandparents where my grandfather eats them right up! I'll probably just cook and feed them to our cats when PapPap no longer wants to eat 'em.

 

[crz4mm2]

We boil them and use the broth for noodles and gravy.
Family picks the meat off the(cooked) neck while the rest of the meal is cooking
I like the heart

 

[mum4jenn]

I even made giblet TURKEY gravy for 600 kids at the school I work at. Imagine what it is like trying to make dressing and gravy for that many kids!!!


Thought I would add....since so many of yall are grossed out...LOL!!

Growing up my mom would also cook the neck along with all the other pieces but she would let me eat the neck while I watched the Thanksgiving Day parade. It brings back fond memories every year.BTW...I DON'T eat the bones ...I just pick off the meat. Takes a while though!!!!

 

[disney4us2002]

Hopefully, I remember to remove them from the darn bird. Twice I forgot they were in there since we don't stuff our bird and they cooked right inside their baggie.

As far as gravy, when buying the turkey, I also buy two packages of 'parts' and cook those for overnight in the crockpot for extra broth to add to the pan drippings. This year the parts available were turkey wings and turkey necks. We did the broth this past weekend and wow did the house smell great Sunday morning when we woke up!

 

[Papa Deuce]

Originally posted by 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?

Is that the same as what I have always called the "gizzard"? If so, Nobody is allowed to eat that..... EXCEPT ME!. My favorite part of the turkey.

 

[JoenAdamnErinnSam]

Not to gross anyone else out but I was told to remove theliver from the giblets before simmering them for broth as it makes the gravy bitter-just my 2 cents.

 

[catsrule]

I don't have giblets.

 

[disneyjunkie]

Originally posted by mum4jenn
WOW!!! I have never heard of people throwing them away!!!!! This is a FIRST!!!!!!

My mom and now I have ALWAYS used them in GIBLET Gravy. I am curious...if you have gravy with your turkey what kind do you have if you throw the giblets away?????? Maybe this is a southern thing.....I just have never heard of throwing them away. The Publix I have been in even sell containers of these so if you need extra you have them.

I chop them up real small and add boiled egg chopped real small.I use the pan drippings and make a normal gravy just as I would any other gravy but I add the minced giblets and egg. I don't know of any other way to make it. The canned stuff is AWFUL!!!

Both my parents are from SC. We've always had giblet gravy. We add chicken gizzards to the ones that are inside the turkey. They are used to make gravy and stuffing. We also add chopped eggs.

We're all going down to SC tomorrow. If we have anything other than giblet gravy, my family would flip. Oh and the same goes for mashed potatoes, it's rice or nothing.

 

[Mermaid02]

RICE??? You don't have mashed potatoes?? OMG I'm glad I'm a Yankee!!!!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

We boil them and then chop them up and put them in the giblet gravy and some in the dressing. We leave out the liver, we don't like the flavor.

Lori

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Not only do I use my giblets (sometimes I leave out the liver) but I buy extra necks, and maybe a couple of wings, drums added with celery, an onion, & a few bullion cubes to make HOMEMADE TURKEY BROTH.

I strain it once it is cool. Then I use it for the liquid in my stuffing and gravy. You can make gravy of epic proportions with the drippings and add a couple of cups of homemade broth. OH so so so good.

 

[disneyjunkie]

Originally posted by Mermaid02
RICE??? You don't have mashed potatoes?? OMG I'm glad I'm a Yankee!!!!

Like I said both my parents are from SC. Growing up we hardly ever had potatoes, unless we had potato salad. The few times my mom would make potatoes, my dad would ask where's the rice.

I'm also a Yankee but there are some parts of my southern roots that I just can't shake off.

 

[Sleepy]

Usually I throw them away, but this year, I live in a parco with a few homeless dogs that the neighbors all chip in and feed leftovers, so I will probably boil the giblets and feed them to the dogs along with the leftovers.