We aren’t hosting but were tasked with bringing the gravy because the hosts are preparing a gluten-free version for a couple relatives with dietary requirements. As a result we cooked a whole turkey yesterday, which came out beautifully (yes we had some for dinner. Can you ever have too much turkey?) The gravy is… just OK. I may have diluted it too much. At least there’s lots of it.
Last year’s was pretty good; too early to know about this year’s. (Not the host for either one, just an invitee – great to have gracious friends who can cook!)
Just took mine out of the wet brine to remove the legs and dry and gently salt the crown. Legs are prepped to be made into a roulade in the morning. Running on almost no sleep so I’m going to finish my glass of the Iris red and PTFO! Happy almost turkey day! Well I suppose it’s TECHNICALLY turkey day for some of you. Just please for the love of all that is good in the world, don’t overcook your turkey!
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. We are having pizza. I’m not a monster though, we bought the pizza yesterday and will bake it ourselves today. Everyone enjoy your family!
Looks like I’ll be staying home today but my guy will bring me back a plate from his niece’s house. It’s her first year hosting thanksgiving or any holiday dinner. I’m sure it’ll be delicious! I’m bummed not to be able to visit with the family! There’s always next time…
/giphy Happy Thanksgiving
@haydesigner
Thanks, it’s mostly chronic stuff but I’m always hopeful I’ll have a good day and be able to make it to wherever it is that I want to go/be/do. There’s always next time, until there isn’t.
@Lynnerizer Turned out pretty good, especially since I had to do it on the grill and it was cold and very windy so it had a hard time keeping temp up.
And no, I didn’t cook it in the stoneware on the grill. I used a metal pan on the opposite end from the heat and transferred it after it rested for a bit. Ended up a perfect 145.
@ybmuG I do exploding meatloaf. Basically use 2/3 of your meat to fill a loaf pan and make a well, pull the meat up the sides of the pan. Then fill the well with mashed potatoes and then top the potatoes with shredded cheddar cheese. Use the last of the meat as a lid and bake. The mashed potatoes absorb a lot of the rendered fat and are quite yummy (or gumby as the case may be ) I’m not saying it’s super healthy, but it’s pretty dang tasty
@ybmuG “Besides, healthy is overrated.” As someone who has died twice on the table, I wouldn’t overrate being healthy. But, everything in moderation is a good choice
@ybmuG Heh… there is but I won’t clog up this thread with all the gory details. TL;DR Four years ago my colon ruptured and I went septic inside. Spent almost two months in an induced coma. So many surgeries. Coded twice in surgery. No heartbeat. But here I am Woke up at 125 pounds unable to walk or talk. Ran a mile within three months of coming home. Back to a healthy weight and you’d never know if I didn’t tell you. I think they removed my verbal filter because here I am again… using too many words And now I’m just held together by all my scars New look on life edit - So, yes… I have things to be thankful for
@ybmuG
Ahh… Tasty! I thought you were talking about some kind of packaged salty mix. I noticed the texture was different than ours, we’ve always just used ground beef.
@Lynnerizer@ybmuG@capnjb@lynnerizer
Many years ago as newlyweds we couldn’t afford a full turkey. This was back in the days when ground beef was about the cheapest meat you could buy. We ended up making a turkey shaped meatloaf that we baked for thanksgiving.
This year it was Tofurkey at the vegan daughter and her family’s house. (TBH I liked the meatloaf better.)
@capnjb@Lynnerizer@ybmuG
Yeah. Gone are the days of hamburger bring cheap meat. If hopefully I can score a cheap turkey at the market after we get back home next week. We’ll see.
@capnjb@chienfou@ybmuG
I’ve seen mystery meats shaped like a turkey but not in over 30 years and never had I eaten one. It’s like artwork!
I was wondering about that tofu turkey, you answered my question.
@Kyeh@ybmuG Fun fact - there are a lot of names I can call myself I was adopted and my birth mom wasn’t supposed to name me, but she did (I found this out when I found her). She gave me what sounds like a hitman name… heh. For one day I was Christopher Krejci. But the truth is she was a big Winnie the Pooh fan and I was named Christopher Robin. Process that
@Kyeh@ybmuG And when we go to DC I wear my cowboy hat and everyone thinks I’m a country singer because I always wear that hat My middle name is Whitney and my mom’s mom was a Morse. So my wife gave me a country singer name.
@sillyheathen We went there once when we lived in Tampa. Interesting crowd I almost expected to read headlines the next day saying, ‘Florida man tackles a horse’
@sillyheathen :rolls eyes: It’s always the BIL ain’t it? Your roulade looks scrumptious! I’ll confess I didn’t know the term until you kept bandying it about lol.
Not just a yes, but a HELL YES! I was working at a community hospital some years back when a co-worker had a grannie (maybe it was an auntie) that fixed them as a fundraiser for their black gospel church. IT WAS AWESOME!!
And I’m well aware that taste is a learned/adaptable thing. I tried it many times. I’m not even remotely a picky eater. If I made it and it’s not great I’ll still eat it and not throw it out. If I put it on my plate I finish it. You know like an adult lol.
That casserole style… I have never liked. This seems… Like it would be better?
@ircon96@sillyheathen@unksol I do not search out sweet potato casserole as a general rule. But I don’t know if it was just the extra soul that was put in them, but I really liked those pies!
@ircon96@therealjrn@unksol maybe this is why I’m not a big fan of pumpkin pie. I grew up with sweet potatoe pie and it’s not as grainy and frankly it typically tastes better IMO.
@ircon96@sillyheathen@therealjrn@unksol Sweet potatoes aren’t squash, maybe that’s why they’re creamier. But the best sweet potato recipe I have is the Silver Palate Cookbook’s “Sweet Potato Carrot Puree” which I make every year. It has an indecent amount of butter & sour cream (they say crème fraiche but eh) and the 14 C. Cuisineart Food Processor that I got here from Meh has made it a heck of a lot easier than it was before!
@ircon96@sillyheathen@therealjrn I mean who makes pumpkin pie except from a can? Brain absolutely skipped a thing… Pumpkins being squash… Just a starch for sweet potatoes…
For some reason my brain links the two… Maybe they were prepared the same. Out side of the pie
If you were going to I think half way in it’s the whole push it through a sieve to make it smooth.
@ircon96@therealjrn@unksol I lived and breathed Good Eats! I loved it. I especially loved the earlier seasons when the special effects were super budget and hilarious.
@ircon96@sillyheathen@therealjrn@unksol
LMFAO! I had never seen that one, and yet, when I saw him pause and look at something else in the fridge, I knew that the Also Sprach Zarathustra music would be starting.
And yes, the new stuff on YooToob is worth the time.
No pics but mom’s turkey was delicious! Super juicy…wasn’t until dad went to carve it that we realized she baked it upside down. Given the results I think we will continue the tradition.
@tinamarie1974 We’ve all done that (or at least I’ve done that ) The first year I cooked dinner for my mother-in-law, I left the giblets in the turkey. Oops Guess what I did the second year? Oops. But I learned eventually
@capnjb yeah mom never makes mistakes. She is an awesome cook, but she is getting older and she misses things here and there. But this was a happy accident.
@capnjb fully agree, but my point was that the upside down bird was significantly jucier than the usual right side up method she has done for years. I think we will be doing upside down from now on
@capnjb@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 It’s true! I found that out by accident, too. And, we had brined ours, so even the white meat practically melted in your mouth! SO good. (And, for those who like the crispy browned skin, you can always do that separately.)
@capnjb@ircon96@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 the last time i did a turkey, i brined it, roasted it upside down (on purpose!) and then turned it over for the last 10-15 min to brown the skin. Definitely the way to go!
Everything turned out perfect- turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, yams, green bean casserole, cranberry pear sauce and amaretto cheesecake for dessert. I had to double up on pain meds tonight, but it was worth it.
@Pony A successful Thanksgiving is exhausting, but also a wonderful thing to reflect on down the road Ours was the same. Nothing went wrong in the kitchen/smoker. Nothing went wrong at the table. Food was so yummy. It was, in a word…
@Pony@sillyheathen Yeah, I’m not much of a dessert person, but cheesecake is my kryptonite My internal organs are pretty much all refurbished, but you can take your pick for a proper slice of cheesecake
@capnjb@sillyheathen Cheesecake is definitely my favorite dessert type item. This recipe was from one of those holiday recipe/craft/decor magazines that live by the checkout at the grocery store. I grabbed it on a whim, and it resulted in me making this cheesecake my default dessert for holidays for 30 years now. Guess I got my money’s worth out of that magazine.
I had turkey and ham at the catered group dinner at the social center, and it was really good. My stepdaughter made the mistake of asking for a drumstick, which I could see was way too overdone and dried out. Her son was given way too much for a 7-year-old, so that plate came home with us, and became lunch for me the next day.
Overall, this is the way I like my Day of Mourning dinner; prepared by someone with more talent than I possess, and ending without the need for me to deal with large amounts of partially dismantled carcass. (There have been years when I made my favorite recipe for the dressing, my favorite cranberry-stuff thing, and a ton of very garlicky and buttery spuds, all sans bird. I am a bit perverse.)
@werehatrack I have a defect in that I can’t not buy a turkey for 50 cents a pound. When chicken is at least a dollar. Cook it a week late. Probably not well.
Then throw the carcass in a slow cooker for a long time to make some stock.
Turkey?
@yakkoTDI Yeah, I haven’t been to Turkey, so I can’t say.
Haven’t had the turkey yet but I’m sure it will be delicious, as always.
Shouldn’t this question be tomorrow night? But if you really must know, we had chili on this chili night.
I went with “I don’t do Thanksgiving” because I don’t host, and I only cook a couple sides.
We aren’t hosting but were tasked with bringing the gravy because the hosts are preparing a gluten-free version for a couple relatives with dietary requirements. As a result we cooked a whole turkey yesterday, which came out beautifully (yes we had some for dinner. Can you ever have too much turkey?) The gravy is… just OK. I may have diluted it too much. At least there’s lots of it.
Turkey?
/showme a cat chef preparing to bake a penguin
@mediocrebot /showme A cat hacker installing linux OS into a robot penguin.
@cfg83 How did you get this wrong?
/showme A cat hacker installing linux OS into a robot penguin.
@yakkoTDI
I guess mediocrebot had cyber-turkey fatigue.
Last year’s was pretty good; too early to know about this year’s. (Not the host for either one, just an invitee – great to have gracious friends who can cook!)
Just took mine out of the wet brine to remove the legs and dry and gently salt the crown. Legs are prepped to be made into a roulade in the morning. Running on almost no sleep so I’m going to finish my glass of the Iris red and PTFO! Happy almost turkey day! Well I suppose it’s TECHNICALLY turkey day for some of you. Just please for the love of all that is good in the world, don’t overcook your turkey!
We’re having baked ziti. It will be great. I’ll be at my SILs house so ziti it is. Hey, I’m not having to cook. I’m happy!
Weird. It tasted like ham.
Had the chimney lit by 6am.
21 pound girl hit the smoker by 7am
Now I’m making coffee and two loaves of bread
@capnjb Things are coming along
And the bread is now in its second rise. Although it seems a bit phallic
Ham this year.
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. We are having pizza. I’m not a monster though, we bought the pizza yesterday and will bake it ourselves today. Everyone enjoy your family!
Don’t know whether or not we will even have turkey. We don’t host.
Looks like I’ll be staying home today but my guy will bring me back a plate from his niece’s house. It’s her first year hosting thanksgiving or any holiday dinner.
I’m sure it’ll be delicious! I’m bummed not to be able to visit with the family! There’s always next time… 
/giphy Happy Thanksgiving
I hope you feel better @Lynnerizer
@haydesigner
There’s always next time, until there isn’t. 
Thanks, it’s mostly chronic stuff but I’m always hopeful I’ll have a good day and be able to make it to wherever it is that I want to go/be/do.
@Lynnerizer I hope you got all your favorites on your “to go” plate! And i hope you feel better for the weekend, at least!
It’s still thawing! I’m not hosting, so I’ll roast my turkey a little later.
At the (vegan) daughter and SIL’s house in Nashville… Gonna be Tofurky this year. Plenty of other food options so I won’t starve to death…
@chienfou
Huh. I’ve got vegan cousins in Nashville. They were the first real vegans I ever met.
@therealjrn
Wait… Are we related??
@chienfou Ha ha, I considered that. My cousin(s) are the daughter of my Dad’s brother and her husband. They work in the music industry out there.
Meatloaf. I’ll let you know later
@ybmuG
It was delicious! 
That’s what I had for brunch! My mom brought me 2 of them yesterday, her own special recipe.
@Lynnerizer Turned out pretty good, especially since I had to do it on the grill and it was cold and very windy so it had a hard time keeping temp up.
And no, I didn’t cook it in the stoneware on the grill. I used a metal pan on the opposite end from the heat and transferred it after it rested for a bit. Ended up a perfect 145.
Good thing I had the Meater!
@Lynnerizer @ybmuG That looks good!
@ybmuG I do exploding meatloaf. Basically use 2/3 of your meat to fill a loaf pan and make a well, pull the meat up the sides of the pan. Then fill the well with mashed potatoes and then top the potatoes with shredded cheddar cheese. Use the last of the meat as a lid and bake. The mashed potatoes absorb a lot of the rendered fat and are quite yummy (or gumby as the case may be
) I’m not saying it’s super healthy, but it’s pretty dang tasty 
@capnjb much better than the old Navy standby “meatloaf surprise” with a hard boiled egg inside.
Seriously sounds good. I’ll have to try it some time. I have more of the meatloaf mix.
Besides, healthy is overrated.
@ybmuG “Besides, healthy is overrated.” As someone who has died twice on the table, I wouldn’t overrate being healthy.
But, everything in moderation is a good choice 
@capnjb
Well… sounds like there’s a story (or two) there somewhere! Apologies if I’ve missed it (or forgot - I’ll claim age-related memory).
@ybmuG Heh… there is but I won’t clog up this thread with all the gory details. TL;DR Four years ago my colon ruptured and I went septic inside. Spent almost two months in an induced coma. So many surgeries. Coded twice in surgery. No heartbeat. But here I am
Woke up at 125 pounds unable to walk or talk. Ran a mile within three months of coming home. Back to a healthy weight and you’d never know if I didn’t tell you. I think they removed my verbal filter because here I am again… using too many words 
And now I’m just held together by all my scars 
New look on life 
edit - So, yes… I have things to be thankful for 
@capnjb Wow - that’s some journey! Here’s to a less interesting future!
@ybmuG Agreed
I’m okay with mundane 
@ybmuG Also, fun fact… I no longer have a belly button
@therealjrn @ybmuG
Sure does!
@capnjb @ybmuG
Lots to be thankful for… 
Belly buttons are overrated anyways, and scars add character!
@ybmuG
It does look delicious but what’s this I’m reading about “meatloaf mix”…
@Lynnerizer beef, pork & veal
@ybmuG
I thought you were talking about some kind of packaged salty mix. 
I noticed the texture was different than ours, we’ve always just used ground beef. 
Ahh… Tasty!
@Lynnerizer @ybmuG @capnjb @lynnerizer
Many years ago as newlyweds we couldn’t afford a full turkey. This was back in the days when ground beef was about the cheapest meat you could buy. We ended up making a turkey shaped meatloaf that we baked for thanksgiving.
This year it was Tofurkey at the vegan daughter and her family’s house. (TBH I liked the meatloaf better.)
@chienfou @Lynnerizer @ybmuG Our local grocery stores had silly sales on turkey. $0.27/lb
I got a 20 pound bird and a 21 pound bird for about $11
edit - I’m not sure how I’d process tofurkey
@capnjb @Lynnerizer @ybmuG
Yeah. Gone are the days of hamburger bring cheap meat. If hopefully I can score a cheap turkey at the market after we get back home next week. We’ll see.
@capnjb @chienfou @ybmuG
I’ve seen mystery meats shaped like a turkey but not in over 30 years and never had I eaten one. It’s like artwork!
I was wondering about that tofu turkey, you answered my question.
@chienfou @Lynnerizer @ybmuG Mad Dog, you travel too much
@capnjb @ybmuG
Haha - you can call yourself Adam!
@Kyeh @ybmuG Fun fact - there are a lot of names I can call myself
I was adopted and my birth mom wasn’t supposed to name me, but she did (I found this out when I found her). She gave me what sounds like a hitman name… heh. For one day I was Christopher Krejci. But the truth is she was a big Winnie the Pooh fan and I was named Christopher Robin. Process that 
@capnjb @ybmuG How fun! A man of many names…
@Kyeh @ybmuG And when we go to DC I wear my cowboy hat and everyone thinks I’m a country singer because I always wear that hat
My middle name is Whitney and my mom’s mom was a Morse. So my wife gave me a country singer name.
Whitney Morse
So that’s another name I can throw around
@capnjb @ybmuG Yeah, I knew about that one. Are you going to create another alter ego and call him Christopher? Or Robin?
@Kyeh @ybmuG I think I could actually pass a lie detector test by saying my name is Topher Krejci. And I’d say it with an Eastern European accent
Went with don’t do Thanksgiving too bc I’m going somewhere, so I’m sure the turkey will be fine.
Turkey is smoked. Skin is so crispy.
Bread is done. Brussle sprouts and bacon are good to go. My jobs are done. 
Getting ready for a lot of yum
@capnjb the photo of the turkey, has me instinctually wanting to rip it off and gnaw on it with a goblet of wine! Mehdieval Times Dinner Club!
@sillyheathen We went there once when we lived in Tampa. Interesting crowd
I almost expected to read headlines the next day saying, ‘Florida man tackles a horse’ 
@sillyheathen Also I can only manage one club at a time
@capnjb
/giphy Happy Thanksgiving from Charlie and myself
Not too shabby!
My BIL ate the skin off the top of the crown before I carved it. He said it looked too good to resist.
@sillyheathen :rolls eyes: It’s always the BIL ain’t it? Your roulade looks scrumptious! I’ll confess I didn’t know the term until you kept bandying it about lol.
@sillyheathen The brother in law is a brat! But everything looks delicious.
Sadly I felt compelled to come back here after the turkey was done to report. Perhaps I’m addicted to Meh…
It was great, though.
@IWUJackson No pictures?
/showme addicted to Meh
@therealjrn Of course you’d be making pie just for your man – screw the rest of the family! Happy Thanksgiving, kids, enjoy your gruel.
@ircon96 @therealjrn
I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin pie. I made a bourbony pumpkin tarte. If only I had thought get the reddi-wip!
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn
Alton Brown is back.
/youtube alton brown cooks food
Kinda straight to the point. Sweet potato pie? Instead of pumpkin? IDK
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @unksol
Not just a yes, but a HELL YES! I was working at a community hospital some years back when a co-worker had a grannie (maybe it was an auntie) that fixed them as a fundraiser for their black gospel church. IT WAS AWESOME!!
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn my experience with sweet potatoes has always been that “aunts casserole with marshmallows”.
And I’m well aware that taste is a learned/adaptable thing. I tried it many times. I’m not even remotely a picky eater. If I made it and it’s not great I’ll still eat it and not throw it out. If I put it on my plate I finish it. You know like an adult lol.
That casserole style… I have never liked. This seems… Like it would be better?
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @unksol I do not search out sweet potato casserole as a general rule. But I don’t know if it was just the extra soul that was put in them, but I really liked those pies!
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn well it’s a pumpkin pie with sweet potatoes vs pumpkins. Both squash. But all the sugar and spices to make it a pie
Vs just squash with marshmallows ? Idk
@ircon96 @therealjrn @unksol maybe this is why I’m not a big fan of pumpkin pie. I grew up with sweet potatoe pie and it’s not as grainy and frankly it typically tastes better IMO.
@ircon96 @sillyheathen Yup. @unksol ain’t lived yet until he gets him a Full Gospel Antioch Church Auntie-made Sweet Potato Pie!
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn @unksol Sweet potatoes aren’t squash, maybe that’s why they’re creamier. But the best sweet potato recipe I have is the Silver Palate Cookbook’s “Sweet Potato Carrot Puree” which I make every year. It has an indecent amount of butter & sour cream (they say crème fraiche but eh) and the 14 C. Cuisineart Food Processor that I got here from Meh has made it a heck of a lot easier than it was before!
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn I mean who makes pumpkin pie except from a can? Brain absolutely skipped a thing… Pumpkins being squash… Just a starch for sweet potatoes…
For some reason my brain links the two… Maybe they were prepared the same. Out side of the pie
If you were going to I think half way in it’s the whole push it through a sieve to make it smooth.
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn @unksol I’ve made pumpkin pie from fresh pumpkins but it’s a heck of a lot of work.
@ircon96 @Kyeh @sillyheathen @therealjrn kinda his point against pumpkins and he argues it tastes better. With sweet potatoes.
My memory may also be flawed
It was more a main dish than a desert thing? IDK.
Not that my opinion matters
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn I mean if someone is offering…
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn also his first episode was turkey.
I just like the whole stichk. “I’m alton brown and I’m gonna cook something”
Probably only resonates with us who used to watch good eats etc
@ircon96 @therealjrn @unksol I lived and breathed Good Eats! I loved it. I especially loved the earlier seasons when the special effects were super budget and hilarious.
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn
/youtube good eats fridge
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn @unksol
LMFAO! I had never seen that one, and yet, when I saw him pause and look at something else in the fridge, I knew that the Also Sprach Zarathustra music would be starting.
And yes, the new stuff on YooToob is worth the time.
@ircon96 @sillyheathen @therealjrn @werehatrack I hadn’t either/expected to get something different. But it was pretty good lol.
Maybe it was a commercial at some point
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No pics but mom’s turkey was delicious! Super juicy…wasn’t until dad went to carve it that we realized she baked it upside down. Given the results I think we will continue the tradition.
@tinamarie1974 We’ve all done that
(or at least I’ve done that 
) The first year I cooked dinner for my mother-in-law, I left the giblets in the turkey. Oops 
Guess what I did the second year? Oops. But I learned eventually 
@capnjb yeah mom never makes mistakes. She is an awesome cook, but she is getting older and she misses things here and there. But this was a happy accident.
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
@tinamarie1974 If it was a happy get together with loved ones, that’s all that really matters
@capnjb fully agree, but my point was that the upside down bird was significantly jucier than the usual right side up method she has done for years. I think we will be doing upside down from now on
@capnjb @tinamarie1974 That’s really interesting!
@capnjb @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 It’s true! I found that out by accident, too. And, we had brined ours, so even the white meat practically melted in your mouth! SO good. (And, for those who like the crispy browned skin, you can always do that separately.)
@capnjb @ircon96 @Kyeh @tinamarie1974 the last time i did a turkey, i brined it, roasted it upside down (on purpose!) and then turned it over for the last 10-15 min to brown the skin. Definitely the way to go!
Everything turned out perfect- turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, yams, green bean casserole, cranberry pear sauce and amaretto cheesecake for dessert. I had to double up on pain meds tonight, but it was worth it.
@Pony A successful Thanksgiving is exhausting, but also a wonderful thing to reflect on down the road
Ours was the same. Nothing went wrong in the kitchen/smoker. Nothing went wrong at the table. Food was so yummy. It was, in a word…
Perfect
Glad you had a wonderful Thanksgiving
@Pony save me a slice of that cheesecake!
@Pony @sillyheathen Yeah, I’m not much of a dessert person, but cheesecake is my kryptonite
My internal organs are pretty much all refurbished, but you can take your pick for a proper slice of cheesecake 
@capnjb @sillyheathen Cheesecake is definitely my favorite dessert type item. This recipe was from one of those holiday recipe/craft/decor magazines that live by the checkout at the grocery store. I grabbed it on a whim, and it resulted in me making this cheesecake my default dessert for holidays for 30 years now. Guess I got my money’s worth out of that magazine.
I had turkey and ham at the catered group dinner at the social center, and it was really good. My stepdaughter made the mistake of asking for a drumstick, which I could see was way too overdone and dried out. Her son was given way too much for a 7-year-old, so that plate came home with us, and became lunch for me the next day.
Overall, this is the way I like my Day of Mourning dinner; prepared by someone with more talent than I possess, and ending without the need for me to deal with large amounts of partially dismantled carcass. (There have been years when I made my favorite recipe for the dressing, my favorite cranberry-stuff thing, and a ton of very garlicky and buttery spuds, all sans bird. I am a bit perverse.)
@werehatrack I have a defect in that I can’t not buy a turkey for 50 cents a pound. When chicken is at least a dollar. Cook it a week late. Probably not well.
Then throw the carcass in a slow cooker for a long time to make some stock.
Not claiming any of this occurs on time or well
Then throw the carcass in a slow cooker for a long time to make some stock.
Dry brined 3 days then smoked. Only about 3 hours to 148 in the breast and 170 in the thigh (carry-over took that to an ideal 153 and 175)
We don’t use the dark meat so we have a deal with the neighbors and they get it.
Still, after 2 meals we still had enough food for 7 complete meals for 2
