Cherry-Blast Turkey (Q-Vue Heavy)

[rivet]

Put on a turkey for sammies. Mrs Rivet baking bread inside and the kids and I am smoking outside. We decided on a cherry-blast theme...

Gonna fill this baby with cherries, spritz her with cherry juice and smoke her over cherry-wood~


A bit of CBP on the top and half a bag of sweet dark cherries inside-


Also in with the bird was a Bloomin' SPAM and 4 Pterodactyl Eggs. No pics of the eggs going in and they were eaten before I could get pics of them out!


TBS'ing at 325F over cherry wood...smells mighty fine!


Finally she's done- 185 F thigh internal, 195 F breast. The cherry juice spritz smellled good, though Mrs Rivet preferred the Cranberry Juice spritz from the last bird 'cause she liked that color it gave the turkey better-


Another shot of the finished bird. Crispy skin and oh so tasty!


Sliced to show the breast meat-


And the fresh baked yeast bread Mrs Rivet made for the lunchtime/dinnertime sammies.


Thanks for enjoying my pics!

 

[fire it up]

Great looking bird Rivet, love the crispy skin. Kids sure are having some fine smoke, want to adopt me?
Mrs. Rivet bakes up some beautiful bread. Wish I had baking skills like that.

 

[bmudd14474]

loooked real good.

 

[pineywoods]

Looks great I sure like the color the cherry gives those birds

 

[ronp]

Nice looking bird AND bread.

 

[smokeys my pet]

Pretty-Bird Pretty-Bird !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Points for you!!!!

 

[rickw]

Very nice indeed. Points to the wife for some great looking bread

 

[cajunsmoke13]

Nice looking bird Rivet....Another fine smoke...

 

[wutang]

Nice looking bird. I have been using a lot of cherries and cherry juice lately. Definately a nice flavor. Looks great as usual Rivet.

 

[sumosmoke]

Wow - that's a really nice bird ya smoked there, and the bread loaves .... can I have one, please??

I always use 100% cherry juice as my spritz and love the color it provides to poultry and ribs. Such a rich, dark, deep color!!

Mom is in Springfield for the next week or so, I bet she smelled that smoke!! Beautiful smoke!

 

[bigbaldbbq]

The bird and the bread look great. One question. What happened to the Spam?...haha

 

[scmelik]

good looking thunder chicken there. A nice turkey samich on homemade bread, thats sound great. Its a good thing I am full from lunch or that would have made me really hungry. points to you sir.

 

[rivet]

Wutang, Scmelik~ thanks for the good words, I appreciate oyu checking out my smokes.

Laurel, heck tell her to stop by! How long is she in Springfield for? I'll take a day off and we'll feast! Daggone what an opportunity....

BigBald...the spam didn't last 10 minutes with two kids 15 and 14 years old! in the time I spritzed the bird, put in some wood, futzed around doing what I needed to do and then got the camera there was about 3 "riblets" left of the entire spam and all the pterodactyl eggs were gone. Nothing but ancient-looking eggshells.

You have to try this stuff to understand, man...it's good.

Hey all, thanks for the messages

May the TBS follow you all wherever you go.

 

[fire it up]

Ok, all this talk about how great pterodactyl eggs are you've convinced me.
Doing up a few chicken legs later over cherry so I'm going to toss a few eggs in and see what's doing, I can't resist any longer.
Just curious, ever try smoking a raw egg?

*Nevermind, I just now came across the thread Dawn did with her eggs.
Guess that answers that