Turkey Day preparations

[Gumby]

Thanksgiving meal has been eaten and cleanup is finished. I spun some records while I cleaned. This is one of them. It's a Thanksgiving tradition.

 

[audreyh1]

We skipped the turkey today. Had grilled lamb loin chops instead and an awesome bottle of Tempranillo. Just the two of us.

 

[Cognito]

We watch the Thanksgiving Day parade in Chicago. Later we enjoyed an early dinner at Shaw's Crab House. A packed house. Yeah. Good.

 

[Ronstar]

Tough job, but somebody had to do it. How about pie eating today?

Went well. Guests are saying it was the best pumpkin pies they’ve ever had. Different recipe than the practice pies - DW used lard in the crust on today’s pies.

 

[Jerry1]

All done here. Dinner went well even though our Lions fell flat. We’re pretty well cleaned up, everyone’s gone, I’m very full and I just woke up from drifting off for a few minutes. Could have done better on the turkey but the rest was pretty good. I swear I’d rather have a roast or some steaks than turkey but my one daughter wants a traditional meal. Good news is that next year I’m not hosting. I’ll bring a side dish or two and call it a day. A good day.

Very thankful for my daughters and their spouses and the grandkids. Oh yeah and Margo (the golden doodle) who didn’t notice that I could have done better on the turkey.

 

[sengsational]

I did a modification of my turkey cook, and cooking ran into the resting time, in order to eat on schedule, so it was a very hot carve!

But the meat was done perfectly. I had iced the breast for 2 hours and the change was to cook (smoke) at 275 for an hour, then drop to 200. After an hour, the leg/thighs were up to temp, and the breast slowly climbed to 165, when I turned it off. Very flavorful and juicy.

 

[More Cowbell]

I regret to report that the precooked turkey breast was not. Had this meal before, usually takes 20-30 minutes, but this time it took 3 hours! I think the sales associate who fulfilled my order put the wrong turkey breast in the kit. Thankful it was just DH and I, and that we’d planned for an early afternoon meal, so we still had time to walk afterwards. Plus I got a refund after I called customer service.

 

[old medic]

We are now in the De-Prep/Recovery phase of Turkey Day.... Nothing but leftovers yesterday, Several bags vac-u-sealed to the freezer. Big pot of veggie broth simmered overnight, Turkey carcass getting turned to broth today, probably the hambone will become split pea soup, a;; to get pressure canned.

 

[folivier]

Made my turkey gumbo yesterday with the carcass. We'll have our son and his family over tomorrow.

 

[Kings over Queens]

I will admit I was interested in the recipe for that pumpkin cheesecake pie.

Havent read to the end if the thread. My wife has a good recipe i'll post later.

 

[sengsational]

Turkey soup is on the menu for today's lunch

We had a 14 pound turkey, so I made two "soup kits" containing carcas bits and separate hand pulled carcas meat. One kit went into the fridge and one into the freezer.

Last year I added so many wood chips, we thought that soup would be overpowered, but this year I cut back on the chips, so we're trying the soup. It will have a different character than soup made from the crockpot breast carcas. Not sure what to expect. We'll see

 

[MarieIG]

Here is the recipe for my Moms "Paradise Pumpkin Pie", might be somewhat similar

Cream: 1 package 8 oz cream cheese, 1/4 C sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 egg. Spread on bottom of unbaked pie crust
Combine: 1 1/4 C pumpkin, 1/2 C sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp nutmeg 1 C evaporated milk, 2 eggs. Mix well.
Pour on top of cream cheese mixture.
Bake 350 1 hour or until done

It was one of our favorites, along with her homemade chocolate cream pie.

Sounds delicious @pacergal . (I was with DS's family Friday - Monday and just saw your recipe.) Thank you!