Happy Thanksgiving!

("N2310D" wrote)
I love living in the Mojave Desert.


....cooked on the rotisserie over charcoal with liberal applications of wet
hickory chips

....cooked on the rotisserie over charcoal with liberal applications of wet
hickory chips

....cooked on the rotisserie over charcoal with liberal applications of wet
hickory chips

....cooked on the rotisserie over charcoal with liberal applications of wet
hickory chips


"Come for the winters - stay for the turkey!"


Montblack
Do you have an available spare room over the garage?

This year we're (SLOW) cooking a Thanksgiving pot roast - our favorite
dish the rest of the year.

Prime rib here. She's almost done.....

Caribou venison! Yummmm!

This is one meal we simply don't mess with -- it's traditional all the
way:

That means a slow-roasted whole turkey, Grandma's apple & raisin
stuffing, Jim Burns' mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, creamed
corn, hot and cold cranberries, fresh-baked rolls, candied yams with
marshmallows on top, with pumpkin and German fruit pies (fresh baked,
or course) for dessert.

Ala mode, of course. With whipped cream on top.

Mary won't even consider changing that wonderful, tried & true menu,
and I (*burp*) am not about to argue. Two glasses of wine with the
meal, and a few beers afterwards, and I'm ready for slzzzzzzzzz....

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Pretty much the same recipe here, except that I do the turkey in the smoker
with wet hickory chips over the charcoal, stuffed with sausage dressing and
covered with bacon strips. Crumble the bacon strips into the fresh green
beans with slivered almonds about an hour before the turkey is ready...about
8 hours in the smoker.

For three days before the event, the turkey is cold-soaked (in the unheated
garage) in a 5% brine solution into which pickling spice is pureed, about
three or four tablespoons of pickling spice blended into microscopic pieces
in a blender.

Dessert is a pumpkin-cream cheese-lotsaspices base over which is poured a
sour cream - brown sugar - vanilla - brandy topping about a quarter of an
inch thick and refrigerated for about 24 hours. About 20 proof the way I
measure it.

Christmas follows pretty much the same pattern except that I use cherry pie
mix instead of the pumpkin in the pie and go easy on the spices and heavy on
the brandy.

Jim



"N2310D" wrote in message
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Because I'm fond of turkey, I do about four of them a year.

Dylan Smith wrote:

Not that you'll hear about the national elections for an island
of less than 80,000 people - even if it is the longest continuously
running democratic parliament in the world, and the first in the world
to grant women suffrage.


Also home to the coolest motorcycle race in the world... You're live
on the Isle of Man right?

After some of the described meals, I can only warn: watch the W&B, all.

- Andrew

On 2006-11-24, wrote:
Also home to the coolest motorcycle race in the world... You're live
on the Isle of Man right?

Yes - and 2007 is the 100th anniversary of the TT Races too...

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After some of the described meals, I can only warn: watch the W&B, all.

That's why we own a Pathfinder. With a 1460 pound useful load, there
is never a worry about weight, and I've never loaded it out of balance
yet.

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"N2310D" wrote in news:uIs9h.6495$w37.1014@trnddc08:

I love living in the Mojave Desert.

You don't have to live in the Mojave Desert to cook your Thanksgiving meal on
the BBQ...

My brother-in-law in New York cooked a ham on the BBQ yesterday. Of course it
was about 45* and pouring rain. But he's pretty dedicated. And my family
reaped the benefits, so no one tried very hard to stop him.

Last year, he did the same for Christmas. It didn't snow on Christmas day,
but he did have to dig out an area for the BBQ from snow from the week
before...

"Judah" wrote

My brother-in-law in New York cooked a ham on the BBQ yesterday. Of course it
was about 45* and pouring rain. But he's pretty dedicated. And my family
reaped the benefits, so no one tried very hard to stop him.

Last year, he did the same for Christmas. It didn't snow on Christmas day,
but he did have to dig out an area for the BBQ from snow from the week
before...

Ahh, the joys of living in NC! Yesterday, it was about 65 degrees, and is
about that on many Thanksgivings. Christmas will often have temps around the
50's, with seldom any snow.

Just in case there is snow, or rain when I want to cook outside, I have a 18' by
28' covered back porch, with two sides against the house to block the wind.
Makes grilling out a non issue, in most any weather.

An electric slow cooker is also a great way to cook a turkey. It has a place to
put your wet hickory chips, and a pan above the burner and chips to keep water
in, to make the heat moist. No dried out turkey for me!

Soaking the bird in brine before cooking works great, too. Just warn your
guests to taste it before they salt it. g
--
Jim in NC

Montblack... "Jim Burns potatos"

Jay Honneck... "Jim Burns potatos"

Can you buy these potatos online?

(BTW, Jim Burns didn't mention what he was having.)