deep fried turkey
green bean casserole
sweet potato casserole
cornbread stuffing (baked - not cooked with the deep fried turkey of course)
banana pudding

"black and tans" to wash it all down

This 18 lb. turkey is currently bathing in a five-gallon bucket full of beer brine. Tomorrow, it is headed for a pot of hot canola oil (one of my nephews has severe peanut allergy). We suggested baking a turkey this year for a change of pace and were shouted down.

1 six-pack of Budweiser
Lots of sea salt
Paprika
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Couple shakes of MSG (Accent)
Couple shakes of ginger powder
Couple shakes of cayenne pepper
Couple of bay leaves
Dried oregano
Dried thyme
Dried basil
Cracked black pepper
Water to fill until the bird is covered

While I was prepping I roasted a chicken for dinner. I don't know what I was thinking.

Happy Thanksgiving to all, especially those far from home.

Oh man, I had myself a traditional Turkey feast.

Turkey was succulent and delicious, had some Roman bread, took a decent piece and poured gravy over it, had cranberry sauce, stuffing, collard greens and hamhock meat, Sweet potatoes (marshmallows and Chocolate Syrup on it of course :D), Baked Ziti, Pecan Pie (whipped cream on top, not the light kind), Pork, and a good slab of Mashed potatoes (my sister's secret recipe).

That was what was on my plate, finished by an ice cold glass of Coquito. I'm not sure what everything else we had was, but I'm sure it was great, I loved my own dish.

VSVO: Thats probably the most delicious recipe for Turkey I have ever witnessed in my life, I thought our family had some good techniques and recipes, but beer+Paprika+cayenne pepper on Turkey? Instant win man, right up my taste bud alley.

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Thanks. Here's a picture of the turkey minutes after coming out of the pot. Not the most flattering pic, as I was reminded, but I was still giddy from having escaped another hot pot of oil.:) I overcooked it a little this year, hit 185 deg. F. in the thigh, but the meat was still succulent and tasty.

Had to bump this thread...as this Thanksgiving, am thankful to Our brave soldiers. Though some of the posts in this thread are from those no longer with us, they are thought of by my camp this time of year in viewing all the brilliant scenery, and changing foliage in the lanscape.

Happy Thanksgiving from a guest here!:)

Squash Pie:

Peel and boil 4 cups of Butternut squash
Put in food processor
Add 2 cups of heavy cream, and a mixture of 1 teaspoon: cloves, cinnimon and ginger
Add 1/2 cup corn syrup, and 2 tablespoons of butter
Blend well

Return mixture to the stove, and heat throughly
Pour hot mixture in to pie crust, and set
Top with whipped cream and candied walnuts

Enjoy.

Holly

Happy Thanksgiving!
 

Despite the economic downturn, a house worth 1/4 of what it was in 2005, a power-grasping national government, a school district budget override failure, a state budget in free-fall with accompanying educational meat-ax cuts, and a meeting with our superintendent next Monday to find who will have jobs next year and who won't - I have much to be thankful for this year.

Tomorrow, I'll be with people I care for deeply, and probably won't get to PS.com. Therefore, Happy Thanksgiving to all. I'll be eating small top sirloin steaks (marinating as I type), large butterflied shrimp, small Australian lobster tails, a great salad with garden-grown veggies, and some great red wine - probably a Chilean Malbec (to start).

I am verrrry thankful for the good-health of my pregnant daughter - and my grandson-in-waiting (who both discovered the joys of automatic weapons last weekend).

Thanksgiving meals
 

May your stuffing be
tasty

May your turkey be plump,

May your potatoes and
gravy


Have never a lump.

May your yams be delicious

And your pies take the prize,

And may your Thanksgiving dinner

Stay off your thighs!

Happy
Thanksgiving!


BMT

I am thankful that I am still above ground and breathing. I have a wonderful girlfriend, with whom I was at the grocery with last night, purchasing the ingredients for a Thanksgiving Dinner...it will be the second meal she's cooked for me in eleven months of dating...:eek: Thank God I was a Boy Scout and own an LL Bean Game cookbook...

I have an interview next week for my third job of the Obama presidency and suspect things will go well...I have pumpkin pies in the oven and a dog that puts up with me....

Things are as good as they can be and I'm pretty happy about most things...

The menu for tomorrow is a traditional turkey with mashed potatoes, yams, green beans, salad, cranberry sauce, home-made rolls, sweet potatoes (my recipe), pumpkin pies (her recipe and mine), cherry pie and some other stuff...lol..

Dont know if I'll make it here tomorrow, so I do wish everyone a Happy and blessed Thanksgiving...these are hard times, but we'll survive them, inspite of the idiots running amok...

Swanson Turkey T.V. Dinner (mostly white meat) with all the fixins, tea, a walmart "individual sized" little cherry pie,with extra walmart brand cherry pie filling (cuz there's never enuff good stuff in the little pies) .

Actually,it's prett good. I used to LIVE on cherry pie filling and saltines,with whatever kinda booze there was.......that booze gets 'spensive,and it makes everyone do stupid sh*t,but I was prone to do some extra stupid things.

and since some of ya' wont be on here tomorrow because you have family and all,let me say now......"HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!! "

BMT, Sir, Great menu!!!:lifter

L.K. Sir,

These are indeed hard times, but am so glad to see that those that can have a holiday meal, are having such a good meal!!!:) Your menu sounds great!!! And how about that sweet potato recipe??? Yum!

Holly

boil the sweet potatoes with the skin on until tender...two choices, here...option #1...split the sweet potatoes...cut a cross pattern in the flesh of the potato and apply butter, cinammon and brown sugar to taste...put the halves on a baking sheet and 15 or so minutes before the rolls are done, put them in the oven, bake until the sugar and butter form a crust...
Option #2, scoop the flesh out of the skin of the potato, mix with brown sugar, cinammon or any other spices, butter...some folks will add marshmallows, put the filling back in the skin and bake with the rolls as above...the only place I've encountered sweet potatoes cooked according to option #1 is the Blue Ridge or in my house...

In honor of you, think I will try option #2...! :)

Thank You Sir!

Holly

The girlfriend liked option #2...I prefer option #1...#2 is nothing more than a twice-baked potato made from a yam or sweet potato...enjoy...:cool:

THANKSGIVING
 

HAPPY THANKGIVING Y'ALL
We will fry 3 turkey tomorrow morning for family and neighbors. My wife will make the following:
cornbread dressing
sweet potato casserole
pink eye purple hull peas
giblet gravy
yeast rolls
pecan pie
These recipes have been in our family since the 1850's.
Times are hard, but remember, just keep putting one foot in front of the other and it will all work out.