Turkey, turkey, turkey

I have been neglectful this week. I had some people from my past turn my life into a turmoil, but hopefully, that is all behind me now.

So, I made the parm cheese chicken, using smaller pieces of chicken, egg to coat it, then I cooked it on top of the stove for several minutes before putting it in the oven. It worked! At least in terms of the breading sticking to the chicken. I still left it in the oven for 20 minutes, so it might have been overcooked. I don't know if the stove-top cooking it in a little oil makes it any less fried than baked, but since the original recipe called for baking it in oil, I just don't know. Maybe it's just as well to cook it in a frying pan?

The chicken was  a few days ago. Today I decided on a frittata, with turkey sausage. Turkey sausage tastes like shit - or at least the Jimmy Dean brand tastes like shit. I cooked the sausage, and took a taste, and I thought, "whose bright idea was it to make sausage taste like eating dirty socks?" It is pretty gross. Let me make this clear: I don't like all the grease in regular sausage. When I cook it, I squeeze the cooked patties between paper towels to get some of the grease out, and there's a LOT of grease that squeezes out of regular sausage. The turkey sausage didn't have anywhere near that mess, but it isn't worth eating.

I've never had so much difficulty making a frittata. I used about a half cup of egg sub, which was supposed to approximate 2 eggs. I cut up 2 turkey sausage patties, ate most of one just to taste it, and added the rest to my eggs.  I added some jarred mushroom slices, dried onion, salt, pepper, and once the eggs were solidifying, I sprinkled shredded cheddar on top and put it under the broiler for about 6 minutes, until the cheese started browning. This was the worst frittata I've ever made. It tasted okay, but there was liquid in the bottom of the pan, and that didn't happen when I made this in the past. Maybe because I've made it with ham and the salt in that draws the water. I don't know.

At any rate, the sausage frittata isn't something I will try again. I probably should have just scrambled the eggs with the sausage and threw some cheese on top and microwaved it in a burrito or something. I do not recommend shoe-leather turkey sausage. Then again, I'm not a fan of turkey, so that might be a clue.