How do you cook your turkey?Follow

I might try a dry brine this year:

http://www.latimes.com/theguide/holiday-guide/food/la-fo-calcook18-2009nov18,0,4954438.story

I'll make a poll if I...well I should re-premium my account...anyhow feel free to slap one on here. I'm sure you all know more ways then I do to cook turkey.

Yes, it's early but brining takes time.

I know for some this may be a theoretical question, for a variety of reasons (vegetarianism, Europeanism, non-cooking-ism). Feel free to answer in the form of a formula (Kaolin, I'm looking at you), poem/song/heroic ballad (Nobby) or unintelligible string of righteous, although misguided, fury (you know who you are).

I sit and wait for the womenfolk to bring me turkey. This has worked for me for well over thirty years now.

Fry it!

Last year I didn't want to deal with a whole turkey, so we had individual stuffed cornish hens instead. Less leftovers, but super easy cleanup.

When I do feel like messing with a full sized bird, I go the traditional route and roast it. Due to concerns about food poisoning I do NOT stuff the cavity any more, but instead cook the grains separately.

I'd like to try it overnight in a pit oven one year. I bet it'd be godly.

Normally I cook my turkey by applying heat to it.

Turn on the oven.

This.

As the only single sibling out of five, someone else is always hosting a holiday dinner, and they're cooking the turkey, ham, or whatever. I do, however, make one mean scalloped potato side dish though...

The scary thing is that I'm by far not the worst cook in the family. My oldest sister is near legendary for her flakiness with regard to holiday dinners. Ok. That may have less to do with cooking skill than other issues, but she did show up one Thanksgiving about 3 hours after the planned eating time, with an uncooked turkey. That was one looooooooong day. Then there was the year she decided to make lamb (at least I think that's what it was). Oh. And the time she decided she was allergic to sugar (yes. I know...), so she made a cherry pie (I think) with no sugar. Have you ever tasted baked unsugared cherries? And then, for some unknown but I'm sure silly reason she decided that pumpkin pie was too heavy or fattening or something, so she made tofu pie instead. No. I'm not kidding...


We only allow her to bring a salad now. She still managed one year to arrive with the components of a salad (late of course!), and insist on clearing half of the already set dinner table to assemble her masterpiece (which looked suspiciously just like any normal salad to me). Ah... Family... ;)

Yarr! That's how real men make food!

The fun part is sharpening knives and then mutilating the bird anyways.

While its still alive!

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