Side Dish:
Smoked Gouda Mac.,Cheese,Cauliflower, and bacon
(You can leave the cauliflower out if you have to)


Ingredients

• • Coarse salt
  • 1 pound elbow macaroni or cavatappi (corkscrew-shaped pasta)

• • ½ pound cooked bacon crumbled
  • 1 head cauliflower, cut into florets
  • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 small onion, finely chopped
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 3 cups whole milk
  • 1 cup chicken stock or broth
  • 3 cups shredded smoked Gouda
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • Freshly ground black pepper

Directions


Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add salt to season the cooking water, then add the pasta. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the cauliflower and cook for 3 minutes more or until pasta is cooked al dente and the florets are just tender. Drain well and return to the pot.


While the pasta cooks, heat a medium sauce pot over medium-low heat. Add the extra-virgin olive oil and heat with the butter until it melts. Add the onions and cook for 3 to 5 minutes to sweat them out and turn the juices sweet. Raise the heat a bit, then whisk in the flour, cayenne, and paprika. Whisk together until the roux bubbles up, then cook for 1 minute more. Whisk in the milk and stock and raise the heat a bit higher to bring the sauce to a quick boil. Once it bubbles, drop the heat back to a simmer and cook until the sauce thickens, 3 to 5 minutes.


Add the cheese to the thickened sauce and stir to melt it, a minute or so. Stir in the mustard and season the sauce with salt and pepper. Pour over the cauliflower and cooked pasta and toss to combine. Add in the bacon. Adjust the seasonings, transfer to a large platter, and serve.




Appy:

Grilled Shrimp




Ingredients

• Two pounds fresh jumbo shrimp 21-25 size
• one bottle of Laskar's Tequila marinade
• Three shallots
• 1 inch fresh ginger
• 1 tablespoon coconut cream or three tablespoons coconut milk

1. Clean and peel the shrimp leaving on the tails
2. Chop the shallots and ginger and add to the marinade. Add in the coconut cream
3. Place the cleaned shrimp in a ziplock bag and add the marinade.
4. Marinade for 1 ½ hours
5. Get the grill hot I leave my grill about 2 inches above the coals or put a gas grill on med/high
6. Put the shrimp on the grill for about five minutes turning once until the meat is cooked.

Can be eaten hot or cold...




Turkey Brine:
Brine:

• Two jars Grandma's molasses
• One box kosher salt
  
• 8 ounces vinegar
• one turkey or two turkey breasts
  
• four 'blue' reusable ice packs

Combine molasses, pickling salt, and vinegar in a large Coleman cooler . Add Boston butt(s). Fill the cooler with COLD water making sure you completely submerge the turkey in brine, add ice packs, cover, and let sit in for a minimum of 8 hours. 12 hours is ideal. I do it over night.


Turkey rub:
Rub:

• 1 teaspoon whole cumin seed
• 1 teaspoon whole fennel seed
• 1 teaspoon whole coriander
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon mustard powder
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• Double this for two breasts.

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Taken from the book "Manifold Destiny"

TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE ROAD TURKEY

1 Boneless turkey breast, about five pounds, sliced into thin strips against the grain

3 large baking potatoes, peeled and diced

3 carrots, finely diced

Dry white wine

Flour for dredging

Butter for greasing foil

Salt and pepper to taste

Three-quarters cup heavy cream

1. At home, combine the turkey, potatoes and carrots into a bowl with the wine and cover. Marinate two hours in the refrigerator, then drain well (and don't drink the wine). Setting the vegetables aside, dredge the turkey pieces in flour, then heavily butter five large squares of foil. Arrange equal amounts of turkey and vegetables in each square, and season with sale and pepper as desired. Cup the foil around the turkey and vegetables, and pour over each serving as much heavy cream as you can without making a soupy mess, then seal carefully.

2. Cook on the engine about four hours.

3. Remove foil pack from the engine and enjoy!

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I like to make pumpkin pie from frozen pumpkin cut from a real pumpkin, and I use brown sugar instead of white.

Served with some real whup cream.....

Yummmmmmm!

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Before you brine a bird, look at the label to be sure that it has not already been 'treated' with a salt solution.


Some birds are "needled" (injected with a flavor enhancing solution by thousands of tiny needles). This is not just only cheap or low quality birds. If you get one of these and brine it, it will come out so salty that it's inedible.

I had one of these "incidents" a couple years back with what was supposed to be a higher end locally produced premium fresh bird.

Read the label, especially the fine print, it can save you some embarrassment.

Good Luck, and post success or failure stories.

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so turkeys die... it is Thanksgiving. Do you think they just magically appear in the oven?

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So I go to my in-laws last night (5 1/2 hour drive down I-81 with accidents, trucks and morons sharing the road with me)

I make it to Roanoke, Va only to find this is happening:


THERE WILL BE NO TURKEY SERVED TODAY!

Instead we are having CHICKEN!

I swear I am about to cry...

It is blasphemy to have chicken on turkey day...

I am also stuck doing work for DHS today and the Lions are wining so the end of the world must be nigh...

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We normally have a roast, no one in the family is a huge turkey fan.

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OMG- s pecial Thanksgiving Dinner THANK YOU TO MRS. AND MR. POWERPIG absolutley awesome dinner adn company. The jalapeno poppers wee deluxe maybe Pig will post the recipe. Rock mac-n-cheese was to die for....thanks guys.

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Thanks for a great dinner, company, and de-infecting my laptop, . . . yet again. You make the best bacon-wrapped, jalapno & cream cheese poppers I have ever had!

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Here's a good way to do your sweet potatoes in a sweet-savory way rather than the god-awful soggy mess most people do with canned ones topped with (gag) marshmallows.

Sweet Potato Tart.

Butter a large tart pan or a 9 x 13 baking dish.
Peel and slice several large sweet potatoes on a mandolin real thin.
Line the bottom of the pan with a single layer of potato slices.
On that layer, grind a little black pepper and sprinkle it with freshly fine grated Parmigiano Reggiano. Not too much.
Add another layer of potatoes and dress them the same way. Keep adding layers in the same manner until the pan is full. A 2 inch deep pan will take at least 4 layers.
About half way through your layers, say the second or third, in addition to the cheese and pepper sprinkle it with real Maple syrup and kosher salt.
Finish the top layer as the others, with cheese and pepper but also brush it with melted butter.
Bake until tender, about an hour and a half, let cool and set for 15 minutes and drizzle the top with more Maple syrup. Cut into squares for service if using a rectangular pan or pie slice sections if using a round tart pan.

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