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Turkey Talk - And Sides - And Beverages (1 Viewer)
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Dan Lambskin
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In years past I think we've generally gone frozen butterball but sometimes will get some other brand on sale
Last year I wanted to brine so got a fresh turkey from the grocery store (still bagged but not frozen)...going that route this year
Mashed w gravy
Stuffing (no bull#### additions like sausage or apples)
Sweet potato casserole (wife makes with mashed sweets and then brown sugars and pecans on top)
Green beans
Probably corn
Maybe Brussels sprouts
Rolls
Canned cranberry sauce
Have some various barrel aged beers and maybe some Bourbon later that night
Probably having this one with dinner
http://www.thebruery.com/beer/autumn-maple/
Last year I wanted to brine so got a fresh turkey from the grocery store (still bagged but not frozen)...going that route this year
Mashed w gravy
Stuffing (no bull#### additions like sausage or apples)
Sweet potato casserole (wife makes with mashed sweets and then brown sugars and pecans on top)
Green beans
Probably corn
Maybe Brussels sprouts
Rolls
Canned cranberry sauce
Have some various barrel aged beers and maybe some Bourbon later that night
Probably having this one with dinner
http://www.thebruery.com/beer/autumn-maple/
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Scoresman
Footballguy
Being married to a culinary school graduate has its benefits.
Willie Bird Turkey
Caramelized Leek soup
Cranberry Sausage Stuffing
Artichoke Bacon Tart
Brussel Sprouts with Bacon
Cornbread
Za'atar seasoned Biscuits
Radicchio Salad with eggs, Manchego, Bacon, and Dijon Vinaigrette
Cereal Milk ice cream
Deep Dish apple pie
Willie Bird Turkey
Caramelized Leek soup
Cranberry Sausage Stuffing
Artichoke Bacon Tart
Brussel Sprouts with Bacon
Cornbread
Za'atar seasoned Biscuits
Radicchio Salad with eggs, Manchego, Bacon, and Dijon Vinaigrette
Cereal Milk ice cream
Deep Dish apple pie
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Oh and I'm sure we'll have some sort of dessert but I'm usually to full on food / booze to really enjoy that
Timmay
Footballguy
Scoresman
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Scoresman
Footballguy
It's exactly what it sounds like. Ice cream made out of the leftover milk at the bottom of a bowl of cereal. Pick a cereal, soak it in milk, strain the milk and use that to make the ice cream. We've tried many different cereals. My favorite is Cap'n Crunch.
Dan Lambskin
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Dan Lambskin
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ShamrockPride
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Timmay
Footballguy
Have you done Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
You are a liberal but you can't seriously be wasting all that cereal that you drained the milk out of are you???
Scoresman
Footballguy
It soaks for most of the day. The cereal ends up a soggy mess.
The whole thing is inspired by a somewhat trendy place in NY called Milk Bar. They serve cereal milk soft serves and shakes.
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
I typically do something semi-traditional but edited down. I really don't like sweet sides, for instance, so I'd never do a sweet potato casserole.
Heritage turkey
Cranberry and wild rice stuffing
Sautéed green beans with shallots and mushrooms
Mashed potatoes (giblet gravy)
roasted root vegetables (carrots, turnips, sweet potatoes, butternut squash)
Mulled wine cranberry sauce
I'm too lazy to make a pie, so apple crisp for desert.
Wine is typically an Alsatian white like Gewurtztraminer.
Heritage turkey
Cranberry and wild rice stuffing
Sautéed green beans with shallots and mushrooms
Mashed potatoes (giblet gravy)
roasted root vegetables (carrots, turnips, sweet potatoes, butternut squash)
Mulled wine cranberry sauce
I'm too lazy to make a pie, so apple crisp for desert.
Wine is typically an Alsatian white like Gewurtztraminer.
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Proving the maxim that we're wannabe New Yorkers, Milk Bar is still super trendy in DC.
heckmanm
Footballguy
Same on both of the above. Took some looking, as even the "fresh" birds at the megamarts were pre-brined/injected. Gonna spatchcock that bad boy, may or may not attempt to smoke it.
Also in our plans:
Homemade cranberry salsa
Slaw recipe from Cooks Illustrated
Some kind of dressing made with veggies roasted under the bird.
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Insoxicated
Up your cranberry sauce game... don't mess with that gelatinous canned crap.
Total Time: 20 mins including prep
Uses only one saucepan
• 24 oz. fresh cranberries
• 1 cup Pure maple syrup (The real stuff, not Mrs. Butterworths)
• 1 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
• 1/4 cup orange marmalade
• 1/4 cup almonds (slivers or slices)
• ½ cup water
1) In a large saucepan, combine cranberries, maple syrup, brown sugar, water, and marmalade. Stir well.
2) Set the saucepan over medium-high heat and bring the cranberry mixture to a boil.
3) Add almonds, Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 12-15 minutes, or until the cranberries pop, stirring frequently.
4) Transfer to a bowl and cool completely.
Total Time: 20 mins including prep
Uses only one saucepan
• 24 oz. fresh cranberries
• 1 cup Pure maple syrup (The real stuff, not Mrs. Butterworths)
• 1 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
• 1/4 cup orange marmalade
• 1/4 cup almonds (slivers or slices)
• ½ cup water
1) In a large saucepan, combine cranberries, maple syrup, brown sugar, water, and marmalade. Stir well.
2) Set the saucepan over medium-high heat and bring the cranberry mixture to a boil.
3) Add almonds, Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 12-15 minutes, or until the cranberries pop, stirring frequently.
4) Transfer to a bowl and cool completely.
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
Fresh 14-16# turkey cooked in an oil less 'fryer'
Red skin mashed potatoes, brown gravy
Pepperidge farm stuffing mix (the blue bag)
Sweet Potatoes (not sure the recipe yet, but none of that nasty marshmallow topped canned stuff)
Alton Brown's cranberry sauce
Bacon-wrapped green beans
Waldorf salad
Rolls
Pumpkin pie (Alton Brown's recipe also)
Unknown other desserts
White Merlot w/ the dinner. I'm not a big fan of the stuff but in-laws like it and the alcohol makes me tolerate them.
Red skin mashed potatoes, brown gravy
Pepperidge farm stuffing mix (the blue bag)
Sweet Potatoes (not sure the recipe yet, but none of that nasty marshmallow topped canned stuff)
Alton Brown's cranberry sauce
Bacon-wrapped green beans
Waldorf salad
Rolls
Pumpkin pie (Alton Brown's recipe also)
Unknown other desserts
White Merlot w/ the dinner. I'm not a big fan of the stuff but in-laws like it and the alcohol makes me tolerate them.
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
Totally agree w/ the sentiment, but I use Alton Browns recipe. Four ingredients, cranberries, honey, cranberry juice (real 100% cran juice), Fresh OJ.
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Insoxicated
Alton brown is great for sure. Huge fan. I prefer the smokier sweetness from the maple/brown sugar, but honey works great as well. The Marmalade and Almonds are my own addition.. I like the thickness and texture (rind slivers) the marmalade provides and the little bit of crunch from the almonds.
Either way, there is no excuse for eating canned gelatinous cranberry sauce.
Jayrod
Footballguy
My MIL's standard menu which is the greatest meal on planet earth:
Oven roasted turkey
Homemade stuffing
Corn casserole (sweet cornbread with corn and cream cheese and butter)
Green bean casserole (french cut beans with butter, bacon and brown sugar)
Sweet potato casserole (pureed with brown sugar topping)
Twice baked potatoes
Virginia buns (homemade biscuits dipped in butter and then coated with cinnamon and sugar)
She makes enough to eat on for 3 days. My goodness I'm starting to salivate.
Oven roasted turkey
Homemade stuffing
Corn casserole (sweet cornbread with corn and cream cheese and butter)
Green bean casserole (french cut beans with butter, bacon and brown sugar)
Sweet potato casserole (pureed with brown sugar topping)
Twice baked potatoes
Virginia buns (homemade biscuits dipped in butter and then coated with cinnamon and sugar)
She makes enough to eat on for 3 days. My goodness I'm starting to salivate.
captain_amazing
Footballguy
My wife picked me up a tofurky this weekend (I'm a vegetarian). First time I've had a thanksgiving tofurky. I've had the deli meat tofurky, which is pretty good, but never the one they sell specifically for thanksgiving, which has stuffing in it.
Going to my mother's with my wife for thanksgiving, and my mother makes this cheesy potato thing that's ridiculous. Probably most excited about that.
Going to my mother's with my wife for thanksgiving, and my mother makes this cheesy potato thing that's ridiculous. Probably most excited about that.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
This sounds delicious, and I'm sure it is, but I was raised on the canned stuff. The kind that retains the shape of the can and you can slice it.
Only ever had it once a yr ...every Thanksgiving. It was tradition in our house, and still is in mine.
I'll probably try your recipe one of these days, and thank you for it, but I gotta have canned on Thanksgiving
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Really close to our traditional. Make extra stuffing (side one with breakfast sausage in it though). Extra gravy.
Make a raspberry jello deal with whipped topping instead of the canned sauce. Try the green bean bundles instead of your standard green beans - may be the 1st thing to go besides the stuffing/gravy.
Wife made this pumpkin roll with maple cream cheese for dessert last year - big hit.
popeye
Footballguy
This has just become a must do - thinking about replacing the water with bourbon, but otherwise a must do
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
I'm not a great cook but I've perfected two sides and a dessert for Thanksgiving.
I make a killer sausage cornbread dressing and a broccoli casserole. For dessert, I make an apple pie I will put up against anyone.
I make a killer sausage cornbread dressing and a broccoli casserole. For dessert, I make an apple pie I will put up against anyone.
James Daulton
Footballguy
Anything to dress up frozen corn? I want to have corn and keep it simple but I'll dress it up if anyone has a really good preparation they like.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Also team gelatinous cranberry sauce for life
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Wife makes a recipe very similar to this except without the weird addition of corn flakes.
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/scalloped-corn/a4ee861f-0324-47a6-b33b-869fd7708f17
Awesomeness
Edit: after reading a little closer..she uses bread crumbs where this uses corn flakes
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Chemical X
Footballguy
i do most of the cooking for me and wife.
italian style meats and cheeses to eat all day
ratatouille
sweet potato mousse
noodle kugel
fresh cranberry sauce using cointreau
sourdough stuffing with spicy sausage and apples
turkey infused with spanish olives, adobo and sazon, cooked in a reynolds turkey bag
mondel bread dessert
italian style meats and cheeses to eat all day
ratatouille
sweet potato mousse
noodle kugel
fresh cranberry sauce using cointreau
sourdough stuffing with spicy sausage and apples
turkey infused with spanish olives, adobo and sazon, cooked in a reynolds turkey bag
mondel bread dessert
Scoresman
Footballguy
heckmanm
Footballguy
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[SIZE=13.333333333333332px]2 T[/SIZE][SIZE=13.333333333333332px] [/SIZE][SIZE=13.333333333333332px]chopped jalapeno peppers ([/SIZE]
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[SIZE=13.333333333333332px]¼ t[/SIZE][SIZE=13.333333333333332px] [/SIZE][SIZE=13.333333333333332px]cumin[/SIZE]
[SIZE=13.333333333333332px]1 green onion (white and green parts), chopped[/SIZE]
[SIZE=13.333333333333332px]1t[/SIZE][SIZE=13.333333333333332px] [/SIZE][SIZE=13.333333333333332px]lime juice[/SIZE]
[SIZE=13.333333333333332px]Combine water and sugar in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Add cranberries; return to boil. Gently boil cranberries 10 minutes without stirring. Pour into a medium-size glass mixing bowl.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=13.333333333333332px]Gently stir in remaining ingredients. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on salsa. Cool at room temperature, then refrigerate.[/SIZE]
James Daulton
Footballguy
that feeling when you consider yourself a pretty solid, non-traditional home cook and you read a Thanksgiving menu like this and @Scoresman.
Chemical X
Footballguy
only 2 people too!
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Savannah Chop House Creamed Corn. Family demands that it's on our Christmas dinner menu every year to accompany the smoked prime rib. Awesome stuff.
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/eatingout/eating_s/savchhouse.htm
Judge Smails
Footballguy
brun
Footballguy
Just 3 of us. Not big on the turkey dinner thing. Having a late breakfast,
Scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes, french toast, strawberries.
G&T's while watching the games. Probably Sipsmith (green) or The Botanist. If snacking on something strongly flavored, like chips & salsa, then Monkey 47.
Scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes, french toast, strawberries.
G&T's while watching the games. Probably Sipsmith (green) or The Botanist. If snacking on something strongly flavored, like chips & salsa, then Monkey 47.
heckmanm
Footballguy
I've been making it for years. Except for the canned-slime crowd, it's very popular.
James Daulton
Footballguy
I've always shied away from cream corn but I never had any experience other than my mother's (puke). What's the texture and taste like?
Godsbrother
Footballguy
Gonna try this dry brine recipe this year:
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012869-dry-brined-turkey
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012869-dry-brined-turkey
James Daulton
Footballguy
I've always wet brined but I do agree that it makes the meat a tad mushy and sometimes too salty. Have you used this method before?
Nigel
Footballguy
Same here, first-timer, have always done wet. Cooking mine on the BGE.
When are you salting your bird? I was hoping to get mine done last night but wasn't able to pick up the turkey until this afternoon. 36 hours should get it done though.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
I am doing it tonight.
By the way I have a Kamado Joe and would love to cook the bird on it but my wife is a traditionalist and insists on the oven.
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Nigel
Footballguy
I'm serving 24 people, two birds, one in oven one on BGE. You should get a bone-in breast or two and throw those on the smoker for kicks.
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