Braised turkey thighs

Molly Stevens said in her All About Braising that stores now sell turkey parts and when I checked at Whole Foods, they do indeed carry turkey thighs, though only intermittently. So I picked up a couple when they were there to use in Stevens' recipe for braised turkey thighs with onions and butternut squash.

I won't go through the recipe in detail. Suffice it to say, the turkey is braised separately and the squash and onions are sauteed separately then braised in the turkey braising juice. The thighs are browned in rendered pancetta fat (the crisp-cooked pancetta is crumbled over the dish at the end), and braised with aromatics, herbs, orange juice and broth.

The thighs I got were bigger than specified in the recipe so I probably should have cooked them longer than the 1 hr 15 min in the recipe and let them get a bit more tender. But the dish was great and made up for us not getting any dark meat at Thanksgiving (for reasons too complicated to explain).