Shabbat menu, and what happened to a turkey

[magid]

aka, orange edition dinner (all produce from the farm share or farmers market, except the dried coconut)

• challah rolls, grape juice
  
• turkey soup with carrots, sweet potato, celeriac, and leek
  
• turkey breasts slow-baked with spicy peach salsa, over a mixture of red onions, sweet potatoes, dried yellow plum bits, and unsweetened dried coconut
  
• roasted turnip with red onion
  
• butternut squash kugel with cumin, cayenne, and ginger
  (not made because guests were earlier than anticipated, and thought there was plenty of food anyway: green salad)
  
• dessert from guest: gluten-free (unbaked?) vegan pumpkin pie with coconut
  
• mandarins

In addition to the soup and the turkey breasts, here's the fate of the bird from Trader Joe's:
1. the turkey thighs, tail, and first joint wing (the 'drumstick') were baked over six-grain-and-pumkin-seed bread bits, with onion, mushroom, walnut, and diced apple (but unfortunately not sage)
2. the turkey drumsticks and second joint wings were baked with a bit of red onion, and a dry rub of cayenne, cumin, cinnamon, and sugar
3. the little bits that happen because I am not expert at carving a raw bird I marinated in a soy-Burgundy marinade (commercial), then sauteed with onion, lacinato kale, and diced mushroom (yummy breakfast!)

Comments

[ruthling]

yum!

[cellio]

Butternut squash kugel sounds interesting. Could you elaborate? (My kugel-producing instincts are pretty weak.)

[magid]

I consulted Chef Google, since I also haven't made anything kugel-like in a lot of years. I added a few eggs to the butternut squash, and flour, and some sugar (< 0.5 c), plus the spices. Mix until smooth. Bake at 350 until the edges look done. Oh, and I didn't grease the pan, because it was one of those flexible ones that doesn't seem to need it, but I'd probably grease it were it a regular baking dish.

eta What I forgot: already-baked butternut squash, not chunks of the raw stuff.