Turkey time

So, the turkeys over here are sensing their impending doom and looking rather nervous, which can only mean one thing - Thanksgiving and Christmas are on their way! The pointless Halloween thing is now well and truly forgotten and we can concentrate on the more important task of feeding 4 people with a turkey the size of Texas...

So, post your Thanksgiving/Christmas recipes here! Mmmmmmmmm

One question Crawlie. Have you experienced the day after Thanksgiving in the U.S.? What ever stores Winegirl wants to go to the next morning its best not. Just my advice and dont tell winegirl I said this. Its a secret among the gents

No I haven't but I can now very much imagine what it could involve... I will be there!

I hoped you saved your shin guards and elbow pads cause your gonna need them.
Avoid Target.

only time of the year I will eat a hormone injected, caged, fattened up butterball Turkey...because it is just that good.


only if you are one of those wierdo parents who insist their little shits kids, get the "hottest" new Elmo.

I have my Turkeys ordered. No hormones came anywhere near the beauties that will end up in my oven... They were all wandering around a very large enclosure looking as stupid as turkeys look, well unaware of their fate..

Here is My Moms Receipe ,

Ingredients
1 Turkey ,(about 8-9 kg)
1 cups Butter ,softened
2 bunches Rosemary ,fresh
4 tbsp Thyme , or oregano or a mixture of both
2 Onions , sliced
3 Bay Leaf
2 Oranges ,cut in halves
2 branches Basil , fresh
Salt and Pepper

Directions
1. Clean and wash turkey well with flour and salt form inside and outside. Rub inside turkey with 2 orange halves until there is no juice in them. Rub outside turkey with remaining orange halves. Wash oranges and cut orange peels into strips.
2. Season inside turkey with salt and pepper then stuff with orange peels, 1 branch rosemary, 1 branch basil and bay leaves. Close both cave openings using skewers or sew them.
3. Snipe the other branch of rosemary and put in small bowl. Add butter, thyme, oregano, salt and pepper and mix well.
4. Using a brush, cover turkey surface with herbs and butter mixture. Pierce turkey on several different places using a large fork.
5. In a large metal baking dish, add onions. Add turkey, remaining basil branch and about 2 cups water. Cover dish well with aluminum foil.
6. Put dish in a medium high heat oven (200-210 C) for 3-4 hours or until thickest part of turkey is done.
7. Check on turkey every 30 minutes and brush more with butter mixture and add water if needed.
8. Remove foil and broil for 15 minutes until golden brown. Turn on all sides to broil and make them take the same color.

My mum has a top secret recipe too...

1 Turkey...

She wont tell me the rest

Its secret!

Pff. Xmas is not about recipes FFS. Cooking at chrimbo is about nothing more than following 4 simply rules.

1 - make sure as many animals as possible have died for your table.
2 - wrap everything in bacon
3 - use at least 3kg of butter to drench everthing with
4 - drink copious amounts of sherry whenever you are in the kitchen

Turkey for Christmas? Bah! Already overdosed on that at Thanksgiving. Ham is for Christmas.

Wrap everything in bacon...mmm...bacon...

I worked at a Target for a few years during my university years. It was there ( Target ) that I lost hope in mankind.

Crawlie, you've been away from Germany too long. Goose is where it is, a nice herb-fed roly-poly Martinsgans on 11 November.

Well, us Canadians already did our Thanksgiving dinner, OG and ER prepared a great turkey, with homemade stuffing, gravey, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, sweetpotatoes, I did a salad and perogies and, Showem and Greg brought homemade pumpkin pie and ER made a great dessert too.

Not where I come from it ain't... Turkey, together with other types of cooked meat (a whole ham, roast beef, pork belly) are to be served at Christmas. The leftovers last for years, unless you organise a massive Boxing Day buffet for your family and friends...

The Buffet idea is pure genius as it gives you an excuse to make tons and tons of sausages wrapped in bacon

Damn right. Hams, gammons, roast beef, pate's, terrines, and other shit too. Stuff a spanferkel. Remove the turkey legs, stuff them with yet more meat, rollthem and roast them separately. Don't try and work out how many delicious bacon clad chipolatas you wuill need per person, just cook as many as you possibly can. Christmas is all about cooking for at least 120 people, regardless of how many of you there actually are. It's even OK to stuff loads of birds inside of one another, regardless of the cliche of doing so, and that awful turducken word. More birds means more meat means more delicious.


Damn right. Drunken late night sandwich gorging (accompanied of course with a few visits to a jar of pickled onions, and loads of chunks of cheese, cut off with a spoon because, well there was a spoon near you and getting a knife out would be hassle. Damn, it just chew the cheeese straight from the chunk.) Also good to make sure you have a few kilos of coleslaw in the fridge - you can do some genius eating, by using a slice of ham as a sort of glove to keep your fingers clean, troughing down fingerfuls of slaw, then simply eating your makeshift glove. Awesome.


Bacon. Bacon. Bacon.

Let there be pork. Amen.

I just looked through my fridge for something to cook after thinking about all that delicious bacon. Rubbish. Nothing really there

Dare I say it? I had some bacon wrapped chipolatas for dinner.

one more day to farmers market, one more day to farmers market...

This is why there is a mutual don_riina/jml/Katrina appreciation society (probably wrapped in bacon).