Thanksgiving Recipes

[Mistress]

Well Turkey Day is right around the corner- if you have a good recipe for anything please leave it.

[iwrock]

For anything?

[MTI]

Disaster?

[MS Fowler]

How about favorite recipes for Brine? I've heard that brinning a turkey is the ONLY way to cook it.
I have been tasked with brinning the bird. My son sent me a recipie with ginger, cloves, cardamom pods (?), allspice and peppercorns.

[Mistress]

this is pretty neat...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27682642/ns/travel-family

[MTI]

From the Master, err, Mistress of Cooking

“I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I’m cooking.”

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch”

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?”

“The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.”

As for the brine recipe . . . don't forget the salt. Tons of brine recipes are available, but it's the method that's important to avoid food contamination. Most folks don't have enough fridge room (unless you have that every so handy second fridge), so a good sized ice chest cooler works great; but remember to sanitize it before and after with a weak bleach solution, 1TBL per Gal of water, and use ice cubes as part of your recipes water element, so that the food stays in the safety zone, which is under 40F.

[Carleton Hughes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc7UdCrJRKI

[MTI]

While I'm against putting any stuffing/dressing inside the cavity, this recipe linked from Wired Magazine caught my eye. It's your basic meat, stuffed with meat!

White Castle Stuffing
10 White Castle hamburgers, no pickles
1 1/2 cup celery, diced
1 1/4 teaspoon ground thyme
1 1/2 teaspoon ground sage
3/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 cupchicken broth

Directions:

In a large mixing bowl, tear the burgers into pieces and add diced celery and seasonings. Toss and add chicken broth. Toss well. Stuff cavity of turkey just before roasting.

Allow 1 hamburger for each pound of turkey, which will be the equivalent of 3/4 cup of stuffing per pound.

For those not interested in doing too much cooking: Wired's How To Make Thanksgiving Meal Out of Fast Food

[The Clk Man]

I'm hoping Chad300tdt will make me one of those deep fried turkeys.

[Chad300tdt]

Come on up. I'm smoking a turkey and a duck this year.

[The Clk Man]

Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

Come on up. I'm smoking a turkey and a duck this year.

You mean one of those "Turduckins"?

[MTI]

Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

Come on up. I'm smoking a turkey and a duck this year.

KERPOW!

[powerpig]

I'm spatchcocking a Turkey and cooking it on the Big Green Egg. Also a Smoked Ribeye Roast and of course the sides: Fresh Cranberry Relish, Oyster Cornbread Dressing, Fresh Green Beans, Sweet Potatoes and for the appetizer, Jalapeno Peppers stuffed with cream cheese and cheddar and wrapped in bacon.

Hope the street people I invited over appreciate it.

[Chad300tdt]

Originally Posted by powerpig

I'm spatchcocking a Turkey and cooking it on the Big Green Egg. Also a Smoked Ribeye Roast and of course the sides: Fresh Cranberry Relish, Oyster Cornbread Dressing, Fresh Green Beans, Sweet Potatoes and for the appetizer, Jalapeno Peppers stuffed with cream cheese and cheddar and wrapped in bacon.

Hope the street people I invited over appreciate it.

Wow. If I didn't have to cook for my family I'd be standing outside your door with a bottle of single malt scotch.

[powerpig]

Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

Wow. If I didn't have to cook for my family I'd be standing outside your door with a bottle of single malt scotch.

That's covered too, but you're welcome to add another.