How are you cooking your Turkey this Thanksgiving?!
Answers: just wanting some ideas!!
If we do turkey, I always use the oven bags. Follow instructions. For flavor, put a couple of sticks of celery and a peeled onion inside the turkey. (I use stove top style stuffing, it's easier and tastes just as good with a few modifications.) I usually cook it longer than suggested because I want to be sure it's done. The skin will brown and the meat will pull off the tips of the legs.
that oven thingy is looking handy
fried!
Traditional .. the best way ... in a roaster bag in the oven.
in the oven stuffed
Hubby is doing a cajun deep-friend turkey. They rock!!
My mom's cooking the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner but I'll probably get a small Jennio-O turkey to make for me and my husband at our house. They are already seasoned and oven ready.
I am cooking my Turkey this Thanksgiving.
We are going to inject ours with creole butter the night before then deep fry the bird on Thanksgiving. Yum, Yum
I'm going to crown the turkey and stuff herb butter under the skin. Then bone out the legs and stuff them with apple and apricot sausage meat and ballotine them.
That way you get a succulent juicy meat from the breast and every body loves the leg. There's none left in our house after that....
I do the brine method. It is great way to inject flavor and the bird comes out juicy. See the link for the recipe.
I don't have time to cook so we order the roasted one from Honey Baked Ham then I make all the trimmings to go with it.
I am going to leave it in the oven until it is all dry and stringy. It seems to be a tradition.
I'm not but I wish I were. I would go with cooking it breast side down for first hour then flip it. I don't stuff the turkey with stuffing. I like to put herbs inside the cavity to give flavor. Also sometimes its nice to put an herb/butter mix between the skin and the meat. There are so many ways to cook a turkey I'm excited just thinking about it. Watch food network this week for other ideas.
i'm roasting it in the oven for the first in 3 years
when i lived in los angeles...i always cooked it on the grill...it's mainly in the 70's on thanksgiving in los angeles
i would also cook my stuffing, yams and veggies on the grill
grilled smokey turkey is so good with fresh cranberry sauce
deep frying
I smoke a turkey on the grill and am famous for it. It is best in my opinion over indirect heat, meaning a pan of water under the turkey and coals piled around it. Then I place water soaked apple branches on the coals. This produces thick sweet smoke that reddens the meat and gives it a very smooth smoky flavor. Just add a handful of fresh coals every hour or so. You won't believe the beautiful brown color your turkey will be. Keep in mind it will probably take about and hour less to cook. Use a meat thermometer to check.
I like to serve this with numerous sides like fresh squash, stuffing, fresh cranberry sauce from the wild cranberries on the bog at the lake, homemade pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes, and of course a Jell-o, whipped cram and mandarin orange salad.
I melt real butter and inject it with a marinade injector into all the major muscles, then rub more real butter on the outside just before deep frying. I have also used a Cajun marinade to inject, and a steak type marinade to inject but I prefer the Butter alone. VERY unhealthy but OHHHHHH So good.