Thanksgiving plans....who's planning now?

[ammaturesmoker]

I am thinking of smoking a bone in Prime-Rib

 

[SmokinAl]

That sounds like a great idea!

I may do the same if they go on sale!

Otherwise it will be a big old turkey!

Al

 

[pops6927]

I'll be doing at least 2 cured and smoked turkeys, one for my chiropractor and one for the family (and my son will bake a regular turkey in the oven). Sizes for the cured and smoked turkeys will probably be 18-20 lbs. each, and son will get a 22+ bird for the oven. I will deliver the cured and smoked turkey to my chiropractor a day or two prior to Thanksgiving as they usually go to a relative's house. Then, the eve of Thanksgiving will purchase 3 - 20lb.+ turkeys to put in the curing brine for our stroke group's Christmas party the 3rd Thursday of December; usually do a thread on it too. We will heat up the cured and smoked turkey prior to leaving the house on Thanksgiving day (I usually dissect it into half-breasts, thighs, drumsticks and wings - wingettes and drummettes) and transport hot to our son's house as his oven is taken up with his own bird. My cured and smoked turkeys will be the least expensive store-brand frozen birds I can find, as well as the 3 - 20 lb.+ frozen birds for the Christmas Party. The curing reinvigorates the meat into tender and juicy! http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/index.php?threads/the-party.174365/

 

[ammaturesmoker]

That sounds like a great idea!

I may do the same if they go on sale!

Otherwise it will be a big old turkey!

Al

"Old" Al?!?! That must be tough to chew! ha ha ha

 

[Rings Я Us]

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/index.php?threads/turkey-cure-question.109074/

Good old Turkey info

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/in...lt-cured-and-smoked-turkey.98333/#post-539609

 

[Rings Я Us]

Been reading up on some good stuffing recipes. I like stuffing that can hold up for 3 days at least and tastes good heated in the microwave too.

Edit: giblets in stuffing is the bomb!

 

[bluewhisper]

Have any of you done this - get a turkey breast, it wants to flop over on the grate. I've used the heavy duty aluminum foil, loosely rolled up then crumpled to make a ring to support the breast in an upright position.

Mm. Want Turkey Now.

 

[idahopz]

I'm going to spatch and brine a turkey, then roast in the SRG

A different method for me this time: separating the breast/wings from the drums/thighs

 

[Rings Я Us]

Bone Be Gone

 

[tallbm]

I already did a practice round on injected smoked whole turkey and a round of cured turkey breast for sandwich meat and as practice in case I want to due a cured whole turkey.

I will do the injected smoked whole turkey for sure. I would love to do a 2nd small whole turkey as a cured one but we'll see, I could always just do a breast that way.

 

[noboundaries]

Our TG menu has become pretty standard the last few years. Even if it is just my wife and I, we still make all of the following.
1. Injected and brined bird, smoked on a turkey cannon.
2. Mixed green salad with oil and sweet balsamic vinegar dressing.
3. Mashed sweet potatoes (made from the extra sweet potatoes used for the sweet potato pie filling)
4. Mashed russets, if my wife makes them.
5. Gold potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, and celery smoked in the drip pan for the turkey.
6. Cornbread stuffing cooked in the oven.
7. Turkey gravy made from the fat in the veggie drip pan.
8. Fresh green beans with home-cured Canadian bacon or buckboard bacon, whatever I have in the freezer.
9. Roller's Amish bread rolls with butter.
10. Pumpkin and Sweet Potato pies with fresh whipped cream for dessert.

 

[foamheart]

Been reading up on some good stuffing recipes. I like stuffing that can hold up for 3 days at least and tastes good heated in the microwave too.

Edit: giblets in stuffing is the bomb!

Cornbread sage dressing w/ giblet gravy..... now ya talking holidays!!

 

[foamheart]

Our TG menu has become pretty standard the last few years. Even if it is just my wife and I, we still make all of the following.
1. Injected and brined bird, smoked on a turkey cannon.
2. Mixed green salad with oil and sweet balsamic vinegar dressing.
3. Mashed sweet potatoes (made from the extra sweet potatoes used for the sweet potato pie filling)
4. Mashed russets, if my wife makes them.
5. Gold potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, and celery smoked in the drip pan for the turkey.
6. Cornbread stuffing cooked in the oven.
7. Turkey gravy made from the fat in the veggie drip pan.
8. Fresh green beans with home-cured Canadian bacon or buckboard bacon, whatever I have in the freezer.
9. Roller's Amish bread rolls with butter.
10. Pumpkin and Sweet Potato pies with fresh whipped cream for dessert.

Ray, you ever make some Praline pieces and crumbs to put on the pies just before serving? If you add 'em to soon they liquefy , and/or season the fresh whipped cream with some ginger? Oh my it just enhances the cinnamon/nutmeg in the pies.

 

[foamheart]

I love smoked turkey, but the best part is New Years when you use the carcass and make smoked turkey gumbo!

 

[Rings Я Us]

I love smoked turkey, but the best part is New Years when you use the carcass and make smoked turkey gumbo!

Can tell your not from the north.. We don't do cornbread stuffing or gumbo. However both are delicious. lol

 

[uncle eddie]

I am thinking of smoking a bone in Prime-Rib

My fave way for prime rib is to smoke it slabbed into single-bone sections prior to smoking - more smoke flavor and much easier to predict finishing times that way.

But prolly will have a baked and a smoked bird.

 

[ammaturesmoker]

Turkey is fine don't get me wrong spatchcock turkey is the only way to do a bird like that but I am on a diet right. Now and plan to break it with some beef at thanksgiving. Trying to lose 18 pounds by then is hard enough. But I want a Cajun Thanksgiving. Grilled asparagus instead of green beans. Baked potatoes instead of mashed. Jumbalya instead of stuffing. Biscuits and sawmill gravy instead of dinner rolls. Hot links instead of the JELLO.

 

[smokinq13]

We got one of those big easy fryers that I did a bird in last year and it turned out very good! but my dad wants to do a actual deep fried one so I'm letting him in charge of that. I'll probably be smoking some ribs and/or brisket, might as well throw a batch of beans in there too, anyone smoke mashed potatoes before???

 

[mtm29575]

I went 'deep fried' with my turkey last year, and it turned out so well that I'll be using that again this Thanksgiving. But I am considering smoking a ham to go with the turkey as well.

 

[smokinq13]

I went 'deep fried' with my turkey last year, and it turned out so well that I'll be using that again this Thanksgiving. But I am considering smoking a ham to go with the turkey as well.

once you start frying turkeys you never wanna go back lol... at least with my family that's how it is