Where is the turkey talk?

[WaHoo]

Seems kinda odd to me that even though we're so close to Thanksgiving, nobody mentioned the birds yet. Will you be cooking, or being cooked for? Anything special about your family's bird? Are you roasting, frying, or what?

Being that my father-in-law had a stroke early this year and has been massively watching his cholesterol, we decided to go lean from now on. Instead of an entire bird, we'll just roast a big breast. Less fat, less cooking time, and nothing but white meat which everybody seems to be after anyway. It sure looks nice to have an entire turkey on the table, but it's not so nice if you have to stuff the leftovers in the fridge.

[SauerKraut]

I'll be in Oklahoma with my sister and her in-laws...of whom I detest, but that's not my problem...and her husband and I will be in charge of cooking most of the food as usual (her in-laws r teh suk and will probably just show up right at dinner time and leave afterward or show up drunk and sleep on their couch until I scare them away...they asked me and my sister to stop speaking Bulgariyan once because they said it was rude*...which angered me...he doesn't hang around me very long anymore. I think I must have broke him). My sister's husband is wanting to try out his new turkey fryer, which I loooooooove fried turkey...mmmhmm. I'm more than willing to oblige.


HOWEVER!!! One thing I hate, is smoked turkey.

If that's unAmerican, then slap my ass and call me a commie. But smoked turkey should be against the law. Anyone who likes smoked turkey over [oven roasted/fried/baked/BBQ'd/honey glazed and fired over a pit with naked girls turning over the spit] deserves to be sent to a gulag on this very train:


Smoked turkey is nasty.

http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/tours/gulag/images/00n1_to_moscow.jpg

Smoked turkey is nasty.




But on a side note, I love making candied fruits and nuts for friends' Thanksgiving dinner after-food snacks. My favourite thing to make is a sweet, candied-chestnut bread that we eat in Bulgariya for holiday celebrations this time of year.









* Usually I agree with the rudeness bit, but she's my sister and in Oklahoma she has very little interaction in her native languages and she's starting to lose it...which frightens me, so she and I only converse in Bulgariyan or Greek. Her in-laws are aware of this. But they're asshats. If I could get away with crushing their redneck little hands in my meaty fist without any repercussions, I would.



HOORAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS! YIPPEE!!! :roll:

[LilPuppy]

Seems kinda odd to me that even though we're so close to Thanksgiving, nobody mentioned the birds yet. .

Thanksgiving was last month.... :D

[CMontyBurns]

Seems kinda odd to me that even though we're so close to Thanksgiving, nobody mentioned the birds yet. .

Thanksgiving was last month.... :D
hehehe... so true...

[SauerKraut]

You guys just changed your date around to make it look like you're Leaders instead of Followers.

[Chalybos]

You guys just changed your date around to make it look like you're Leaders instead of Followers.
Yeah, they got the invite 11 months too late and now they're trying to feel superior.

[CMontyBurns]

Canada actually had their Thanksgiving first.. according to the internet


CANADA - In 1576, Sir Martin Frobisher set out to find the Spice Islands. He landed instead on Baffin Island. The complete absence of trees and a pitiless terrain of unrelieved rock and permafrost barely dampened his determination to establish the first English settlement in North America. Not yet disabused of his perennial optimism, he spent two years mining "gold ore". When it was well and duly hauled back to England, it assayed out as iron pyrite. Fool's Gold.


USA - According to historical sources, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgiving feast. The Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621 near Plymouth, Massachusetts, after their first harvest. This is the feast people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving." This feast was never repeated, so it can't be called the start of a tradition, nor did the colonists or Pilgrims call it a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, to these devoutly religious people, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting.

[Chalybos]

Pfffffffffffffffffft. You Canadians, always trying to re-write history. We're not falling for your revisionist ways, and your insidious plans to slowly take over the world. We know all about your plans to become the next great superpower. Warming the globe with your use of fossil fuels, thawing out the fertile land that lies beneath the tundra. You just want to be able to out-produce us, and thereby gain the power to dictate the price of grains. Oh, you're soooo clever, but we're on to you. Sneaky seal-huggers.


Signed,
An American who's hip to Canada's insidious plan

[SauerKraut]

Canada actually had their Thanksgiving first.. according to the internet


CANADA - In 1576, Sir Martin Frobisher set out to find the Spice Islands. He landed instead on Baffin Island. The complete absence of trees and a pitiless terrain of unrelieved rock and permafrost barely dampened his determination to establish the first English settlement in North America. Not yet disabused of his perennial optimism, he spent two years mining "gold ore". When it was well and duly hauled back to England, it assayed out as iron pyrite. Fool's Gold.


USA - According to historical sources, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgiving feast. The Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621 near Plymouth, Massachusetts, after their first harvest. This is the feast people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving." This feast was never repeated, so it can't be called the start of a tradition, nor did the colonists or Pilgrims call it a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, to these devoutly religious people, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting.


Um...

where in there does it say Canadians had "Thanksgiving" first?


All that tells me is that Sir Frobisher was a complete idiot.

[Chairman_Kaga]

Seems kinda odd to me that even though we're so close to Thanksgiving, nobody mentioned the birds yet. Will you be cooking, or being cooked for? Anything special about your family's bird? Are you roasting, frying, or what?

Being that my father-in-law had a stroke early this year and has been massively watching his cholesterol, we decided to go lean from now on. Instead of an entire bird, we'll just roast a big breast. Less fat, less cooking time, and nothing but white meat which everybody seems to be after anyway. It sure looks nice to have an entire turkey on the table, but it's not so nice if you have to stuff the leftovers in the fridge.
I'm reusing 'Pup's recipe from last year.

[CMontyBurns]

Canada actually had their Thanksgiving first.. according to the internet



Um...

where in there does it say Canadians had "Thanksgiving" first?


All that tells me is that Sir Frobisher was a complete idiot.Sorry should have stated... Thanksgiving first celebrated in Canada! jeez, SK is picking a fight with everyone today... it must be monday or something ;)

[SauerKraut]

hehehe

[batmanuel]

I'm reusing 'Pup's recipe from last year.

I was going to ask if it was good, but since you're using it again, I assume so. How much did it add to the taste, or change from a "normal" turkey?

[Chairman_Kaga]

I'm reusing 'Pup's recipe from last year.

I was going to ask if it was good, but since you're using it again, I assume so. How much did it add to the taste, or change from a "normal" turkey?
Sorry, reusing pup's butternut squash soup recipe.

I'm frying the turkey again.