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Thanksgiving Dinner Pole (1 Viewer)
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Courtjester
The Town Drunk
Not a fan of this day.
Night before, my wife and I do as much of the prep work that can be done: salads, relish trays, apps, etc.
Thanksgiving day we drive out to my sister’s house, which is 30 minutes away in the middle of nowhere. Usually around 30-35 family members there. We eat a huge lunch all the whole looking at the clock because we have to leave by 2:30. Drive back the 30 minutes and immediately start cooking all the hot food in preparation for my wife’s family showing up between 5:00 and 5:30. Eat another big meal and listen to my Mother in law complain about everything.
Go to bed
Just not a fun day.....
Night before, my wife and I do as much of the prep work that can be done: salads, relish trays, apps, etc.
Thanksgiving day we drive out to my sister’s house, which is 30 minutes away in the middle of nowhere. Usually around 30-35 family members there. We eat a huge lunch all the whole looking at the clock because we have to leave by 2:30. Drive back the 30 minutes and immediately start cooking all the hot food in preparation for my wife’s family showing up between 5:00 and 5:30. Eat another big meal and listen to my Mother in law complain about everything.
Go to bed
Just not a fun day.....
skol asylum
Footballguy
We've done a small turkey breast in Crock-Pot recently. Works pretty well. Not sure of the plan yet. Usually just my wife and I and two kids as no family here in AZ. This year her parents will be here I imagine as her dad just retired and they are doing the snow bird thing this winter. They arrive on Monday with their camper and two dogs and will be parking it in an RV park for the winter.
tommyboy
Footballguy
Con. Interferes with air moving through the cavity that helps cook the bird. Also potential bacterial issue
Mike Damone
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Dan Lambskin
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rockaction
Footballguy
Sounds awesome. My favorite holiday by far, too. Though I do respect and love, respectively, Memorial Day and Christmas, Thanksgiving tops them all.Angry Beavers said:
Mike Damone
Footballguy
Anyone have a good pie, something different. Both apple & pumpkin will already be in attendance as well as a spice cake and some type of baklava cheesecake thing
Birdie048
Footballguy
My mind went to the wrong place immediately after reading "POLE"..... in the title....
I automatically assumed it was form of "pole dancing entertainment activity" for Thanksgiving!
Alas, I am just heading to In-Laws for meal.... we prepare a few items to drive 94 miles....
But at least I don't have to clean my house before/after they arrive/depart!
I automatically assumed it was form of "pole dancing entertainment activity" for Thanksgiving!
Alas, I am just heading to In-Laws for meal.... we prepare a few items to drive 94 miles....
But at least I don't have to clean my house before/after they arrive/depart!
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
As always. Sitting on my front porch waiting for the catering truck to pull into my driveway.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
My wife makes an incredible coconut cream pie with a chocolate graham cracker crust. She got the recipe online somewhere, I'll see if she still has the URL for it if you want. There are multiple desserts at our thanksgiving, that one always gets sold out first. I don't even like coconut and think I it's good.
Mike Damone
Footballguy
Angry Beavers
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
My wife lost the link, but she had the recipe on file. Here it is:
Old Fashioned Coconut Cream Pie
Ingredients
For the Crust
1 Pkg. chocolate wafer cookies, broken into pieces (I use Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Cookie, found in most supermarkets)
¼ teaspoon coarse salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
⅓ cup shredded sweetened coconut
For the topping and filling
1 can coconut milk
half-and-half or heavy cream (enough to add to the coconut milk to make 3 cups)
3 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
⅓ cup cornstarch
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup flaked sweetened coconut, toasted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon coconut extract
fresh whipped cream, lightly sweetened
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325°. In a food processor, combine cookies and salt; process until fine crumbs form. With machine running, slowly pour butter through feed tube and process until mixture represents wet sand. Stir in coconut. Press crumbs in bottom and up sides of a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate. Bake until crust is set, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely in pie dish on a wire rack.
2. For the pie: In a medium saucepan, combine half-and-half, coconut milk, egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Bring to a boil over medium-low heat, stirring constantly. Mixture will become very thick. Remove from heat, and stir in coconut extract and the vanilla extract. Pour the custard into the baked and cooled pie shell and chill 2-4 hours or until firm. Top with chipped cream and the toasted coconut.
Not part of the recipe - make sure everyone takes their cholesterol meds before and after.
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facook
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FreeBaGeL
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Judge Smails
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
jamny
Footballguy
You would think after losing her husband, she would take a different view of life but it hasn't slowed my MiL down.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
My wife and I spend Wed eve preparing the house up for about 15-18 guests on Thursday. She will prep as much food as she can.
Thursday morning I play flag football. At this point in my life, I jog around trying not to get hurt but make sure to catch a pass or two.
Get home at noon and take a really hot shower to try to eliminate some of the soreness that is coming that evening and Friday.
The rest of the day is spent eating, hanging with my family, and drinking a little beer, wine and bourbon. Our meal is pretty traditional with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, pumpkin pie, and apple pie.
Thanksgiving is a fantastic day but not sure that it is my favorite Holiday. I love the different feel of Halloween since it is darker than the other Holidays. And, Xmas has such a great build-up with happiness and pleasantness for days or weeks. Most people are a little kinder around Xmas.
Thursday morning I play flag football. At this point in my life, I jog around trying not to get hurt but make sure to catch a pass or two.
Get home at noon and take a really hot shower to try to eliminate some of the soreness that is coming that evening and Friday.
The rest of the day is spent eating, hanging with my family, and drinking a little beer, wine and bourbon. Our meal is pretty traditional with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, pumpkin pie, and apple pie.
Thanksgiving is a fantastic day but not sure that it is my favorite Holiday. I love the different feel of Halloween since it is darker than the other Holidays. And, Xmas has such a great build-up with happiness and pleasantness for days or weeks. Most people are a little kinder around Xmas.
facook
Footballguy
cosjobs
Footballguy
It was a tough decision for me this year. My parents are 92 and 93 and I'm their only relative nearby, but I'm flying to Boston to be with my sister. She just went through five weeks of chemo and radiation.
I have two briskets to pull out of the brine this afternoon. I' finish them off today including smoking to make pastrami. I'll vac-pac one of them and take to Boston. I also have a bunch of boudain I made this week that I may bring to use as turkey stuffing.
I have two briskets to pull out of the brine this afternoon. I' finish them off today including smoking to make pastrami. I'll vac-pac one of them and take to Boston. I also have a bunch of boudain I made this week that I may bring to use as turkey stuffing.
Sullie
Footballguy
I disagree. I do think chicken is naturally juicer and just better overall, especially smoked chicken. The older I get the more I find people screw up turkey (over cook it) and it comes out dry, bland and just awful. For turkey to be perfect, it takes a lot of practice. Most people just jam it down their hole or drown it in gravy to offset the dryness.
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Nigel
Footballguy
Yea, it can be done well, but there's a reason everyone only eats it once or twice a year.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Anybody ever use a turkey roaster (large crock pot looking thingee) instead of the oven? Thinking of borrowing my neighbors this year to free up the oven for other things.
Mike Damone
Footballguy
Wife wanted one for last thanksgiving, bought it at Costco . Damn if the turkey didn’t come out moist . Went back in the box and hasn’t moved from our basement but will be using it again
We have, it comes out good but the turkey doesn’t get quite as brown
also they aren’t as big as they look, so if you have some 25lb monster it may not fit
skol asylum
Footballguy
Keeping it simple and doing Turkey tenderloin in the crockpot today along with the usual suspects of potatoes, stuffing, green beans, and bread. Think there is going to be some sort of pie for desert.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Did this and won't do it again. Followed directions exactly, checked the temp of the breast after 3.5 hours and it was 220.
my fault for not using a digital thermometer during the cook, but this thing was like a nuclear oven.
Turkey was still ok, but it resembled the one from Christmas Vacation.
Wingnut
Footballguy
Just me and the GF...neither of us have family in Florida...I cooked a 15lb bird, she made traditional stuffing, I made oyster dressing, I did the mashed potatoes, she made the gravy, green beans and a pumpkin pie. I also did some deviled eggs and heated up some dinner rolls.
We have a crap ton of leftovers.
We have a crap ton of leftovers.
JaxBill
Footballguy
The past couple of years we have nixed the mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving. We already have the sweet potato casserole and the stuffing can pick up the slack when it comes to gravy host.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Just Mrs. O and the dog with me as usual. Brined 2 turkey breasts. Did one with traditional seasoning and the other with a spicy tangerine glaze. Cajun stuffing (sausage and shrimp), classic green bean casserole (added some French fried jalapeños this time), honey sriracha Brussels sprouts (new recipe), and old school jellied cranberry sauce (the can is way smaller than it used to be). Dessert consisted of an Ozark apple cake and a coconut cream pie. Everything turned out great. We have a smoked salmon dill dip for leftovers and honey peach bran and pumpkin loaves for breakfast. Plenty of booze too. That’s key.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Twas myself, my brother, my mom, my mom's sister (who was hosting), my aunt's husband, and two of their kids (both way younger than I but still adults and one of whom brought her boyfriend).
My aunt - the hostess - was a hippie-chick from the '60s who never has a problem going outside of the tradition box. But, traditional Anglo Thanksgiving she did - and she nailed it.
Full turkey, stuffing, mashed taters precious, fresh ### ####ed kale (autumn kale may be the best veggie/leaf ever), 47,000 different kinds of rolls (bread's her specialty), some kind of wild rice thing that my vegetarian cousin likes, 12 gallons of gravy, fresh turnips (not a fave of mine, but others gnawed them), and several different deserts.
Of course, the best - as good as the food was - was hanging with my peeps. Just awesome. I hope all of yours' were as good as mine was.
My aunt - the hostess - was a hippie-chick from the '60s who never has a problem going outside of the tradition box. But, traditional Anglo Thanksgiving she did - and she nailed it.
Full turkey, stuffing, mashed taters precious, fresh ### ####ed kale (autumn kale may be the best veggie/leaf ever), 47,000 different kinds of rolls (bread's her specialty), some kind of wild rice thing that my vegetarian cousin likes, 12 gallons of gravy, fresh turnips (not a fave of mine, but others gnawed them), and several different deserts.
Of course, the best - as good as the food was - was hanging with my peeps. Just awesome. I hope all of yours' were as good as mine was.
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