Canned meat review: Keystone turkey and ground beef

These have been up in the pantry for quite a while, because they’re special and I sort of saved them for a treat. But I happened to notice last week that some packaged food Big Brother sent me a long time ago…

…was already well past its best by date and not the sort of thing where you ought to disregard that. So I looked for something that would go with turkey stuffing, and…

…there you go. Chunk meat of this sort tends to work well in cans, and this was no exception. It’s fully cooked and tastes like it just came off the bird. Mixed with the stuffing, it was so good that…I sort of stuffed myself, as well.

And today, having finally recovered, I got to thinking about what I could with this…

I must confess I’m cheating here, because I already tried this out about five years ago. It hasn’t changed: The texture of this stuff isn’t nearly juicy or gooey enough to squeeze into burgers, and honestly it’s not a taste treat by itself.

But for adding taste and texture to cheap canned spaghetti sauce, of which I have a lot, it’s the bee’s knees. Break it up into the sauce and let it simmer for half an hour or 45 minutes and the beef breaks down so nicely you’ll never know the difference.

Watch your spices because it doesn’t taste exactly like what you get in the supermarket even after simmering, but it’s not bad at all.

And it makes lots. Thanks to the refrigerator at Ian’s place I’ll be lunching on this well into next week.

Torso Boy thought it smelled so good he even wanted in on the action, and he usually isn’t much use for pot-cleaning. Though he liked the turkey and stuffing as well.

So thanks very much to the Generous Readers who’ve been sending canned meat!