OT Calling On @crandc (Need Thanksgiving Recipe Ideas!)

[crandc]

Recipe looks good. I have a vegetarian brother and a niece allergic to dairy, eggs, and gluten so I have to do double cooking.

 

[ABM]

Has anyone ever done a cooler turkey? It is seriously the best. Feel free to tell me that you'll get salmonella, but my family has been doing it for two decades and never any sickness. The meat just totally falls apart once you unwrap it.

We usually do a small bird on the side too so we can get some of that chicken skin that Lanny always talks about.
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Dang, so if we wanted to serve this at, say, 1 PM on Thanksgiving afternoon, I'd have to start baking the turkey at around 9 PM on Wednesday evening, then drop it in the cooler around 1 AM?

 

[Shaboid]

Dang, so if we wanted to serve this at, say, 1 PM on Thanksgiving afternoon, I'd have to start baking the turkey at around 9 PM on Wednesday evening, then drop it in the cooler around 1 AM?

Yup! Saves a lot of oven space that everyone always fights for on Thanksgiving day also.

 

[Lanny]

I'm going to give both of these a shot this Thanksgiving. I'll be cooking 2 birds.....brining them both. Trying Gordon Ramsey's recipe for the baked bird (and gravy!) and smoking the other.

https://www.allrecipes.com/video/1353/out-of-this-world-turkey-brine/

Did I see lemon in there? What the hey?

 

[Lanny]

That's cool about your family, that means 75% more turkey for you.

Save me the crispy brown skin, that's all I want of the turkey.

 

[Lanny]

We always do a giant prime rib. Mom usually makes a big turkey breast in case anyone wants any.

We do turkey at Thanksgiving and prime rib at New Years. Nothing better than crispy turkey skin and medium rare prime rib with a nice crust on the outside resulting from both proper broiling and salt applied to the outside half an hour before cooking. The bones of a properly cooked prime rib and the mashed potatoes and prime rib gravy are to die for.
For our turkey dressing we will add giblets, bread cubes, sage and water chestnuts. Cranberry sauce will be whole berry and if we were ambitious we would make an orange flavored cranberry sauce. Gravy will also have giblets but no water chestnuts. Side dish should be candied sweet potatoes or yams. Pie should include pumpkin with proper homemade whipped cream with sugar and plenty of real vanilla extract. However, no one in our family is that crazy about pumpkin pie so we'll just have mince meat with Haagen Daaz vanilla. Probably some chilled white wine to go with the turkey.
Prime rib with the mashed potatoes and gravy will have string beans on the side. Don't know what else, maybe homemade eggnog with brandy.
In either case there will be copious college football.
Probably both meals will have some snacks of raw veggies and chips and dips. And there will be coffee for all who want.

 

[Lanny]

Is that how the Walking Dead started?

Oh, so now you're making fun of the way I walk with my arms outstretched straight out in front of me.