How Are You Cooking The Turkey This Year?

[rucky]

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Old family restaurant.

23 1/2 pounds this year, 12 people.

[SOteric]

2. My Dad, my brother & I just finished the menu today - we're serving duck.

We'll prep several ducks ahead to render the duckfat and prepare confit of duck from the leavings.

Then we'll brine the ducks for roasting in a buttermilk and pink peppercorn brine overnight.

The ducks for roasting will be lightly smoked, the inside cavity will be coated in rendered duck fat and the birds will be basted in duck fat and a spice rub will be applied before roasting.

And yes, -it's pretty much the way my momma taught me.

[rucky]

3. crap...I forgot brining

that sounds excellent. I'll be over at 4:00

[Lefta Dissenter]

4. Roasted/basted, but more the way my brother taught me

with cheesecloth on top - yummy (no, you don't eat the cheesecloth)

[Lady Freedom]

5. With studio lights and cameras! And...

Then end with a oven fire! :scared:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. LF is cooking mine for me

and I can't wait to eat it.
:evilgrin:

[Lady Freedom]

8. So you like it black?

I can do that!hehe!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Black and Hot, just like my coffee.

[fortyfeetunder]

7. What about smoking/barbecuing?

Ever since I got my Weber kettle grill 14 years ago, I've cooked all but one of my turkeys in that grill. And Thanksgiving is anticlimatic for me because I'll roast a turkey or turkey parts whenever I get the urge.

The one I cooked in the oven just didn't do it for me. I haven't cooked one in the oven since then.

I smoke with apple, hickory or mesquite and last year used rosemary branches.

And that turkey carcass after its visit on my grill results in a mean bowl of turkey broth.

[DBoon]

10. Other

i'm irradiating it with uranium encased weaponry.


Tasty pink glow. Yumm.

[scarlet_owl]

11. I'm the only one with a suitable place to have Thanksgiving.

My mother has nine dogs and my sister lives with some nasty people, so it's up to me every year. I make the turkeys and most of the other stuff. My mom didn't teach me how to cook turkey, I figured it out on my own.