Off to the turkey farm, Costco Wholesale and ShopRite for our Thanksgiving meal

Goffle Road Poultry Farm is so popular chicken sales were suspended and a Wyckoff police officer was posted at the entrance late Monday morning, when we drove there to pick up a naturally raised, antibiotic-free turkey, duck eggs and other items for our Thanksgiving meal. Saturday was the last day for phone orders. At the ShopRite in Paramus on Monday morning, jumbo white sweet potatoes, some longer than a foot, were $1.50 a pound, below.

-- HACKENSACK, N.J.

By VICTOR E. SASSON

EDITOR

For our Thanksgiving meal, we bought a fresh-killed, 10-pound turkey raised without antibiotics at Goffle Road Poultry Farm in Wyckoff, the only live market in Bergen County. 

We also picked up four turkey drumsticks, turkey necks and four duck eggs, which have bigger yolks than chicken eggs, a guilty pleasure for this fan of sunny side up, because they were $1.25 each. 

At Costco Wholesale on Tuesday, my wife picked up four long, meaty, wild-caught Red King Crab legs for an appetizing cold salad I dress with Dijon mustard, fresh lemon juice, cumin and other seasonings.

The price was $21.99 a pound, identical to November 2016, as I reported in Do You Really Know What You're Eating? 

Tens of thousands bitten by food-shopping bug

On Monday morning, before we drove the 9 miles or so to the turkey farm in Wyckoff, I stopped at the ShopRite in Paramus for a 5-pound box of sweet potatoes (on sale for $1.99).

I'm baking four of the sweet potatoes, mashing others with extra-virgin olive oil and seasonings, and reserving the last one for a frittata made with salted codfish, slices of plum tomato and slices of boiled sweet potato.

I also picked up two 1-liter bottles of Sparkling Pomegranate-Apple Juice from Spain (on sale for $1.88 each).

That was all the shopping we were going to do, but this morning my wife decided she wanted to serve ham in addition to turkey.

So this afternoon, she plans to brave the crowds at Whole Foods Market in Paramus for a naturally raised ham, and I'm stopping at H Mart in Englewood for a 15-pound bag of white rice.

The scene inside the small store at Goffle Road Poultry Farm late Monday morning, above and below. Even though we placed a walk-in order for a fresh-killed whole turkey and parts, we were out of there in about 20 minutes.

 The menu

Everyone in my family and our Thanksgiving guests are meat-and-poultry eaters, but my passion is seafood, so this is what our menu looks like now:

• Wild Red King Crab Salad

• Codfish and Sweet Potato Frittata

• Whole Roasted Turkey in an Oven Bag

• Ham

• Sauteed Fresh Spinach, Sweet Potatoes

• Organic Spring Mix Salad

• Fruit Salad

• Prosecco, Sparkling Cider, Juice and Seltzer