thanksgiving...what are your plans
 

Last year I had thanksgiving with a bunch of Marines....bring your own dish kinda thing(it was for work), and wow, was there an assortmant of food. I learned that everyone does thanksgiving a little different. (then my wife and I had some friends over for deep fat fried turkey)

I never thought of tacos or rice for thanksgiving. the thought just never corssed my mind, but some people do it.

My wife and I were going to go to someones house for a "louisana style thanksgiving" but those people had a death in the family, so we are cooking for ourselves.

Beings, my wife and I love to cook, im sure we will come up with somehting good....

so how are you doing thanksgiving and whats on the dinner table?

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Well, we used to go chill with familly at my grandparents house for the day and have dinner over there, but now that we/them are older we go to a huge resturaunt that raises their own chickens, cooks them etc. So it's Chicken for me on turkey day:D The place is packed every year so at least we aren't the only wacked familly.

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im gonna watch football, eat till I puke and then prolly get drunk ;D

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I'm going out to eat at a restaurant with family from my step-father's side, and going to my grandfather's house for thanksgiving (traditional style).

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damn... frank your thanksgivings sound delicious :-\ My thanksgivings consist of a dry turkey my auntie makes. I plan on buying a prebaked/stuffed turkey, but I'd better go get one soon huh :P Either that or a honeybaked ham.

So my thanksgiving, one of the above plus a little time with family plus work... yay.

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i love to do "outdoor cooking" such as bbq'n, grillin, cooking soups over an open fire, fryin foods...and my new thing is i want to learn how to cook with dutch ovens.

so far, im going to deep fat fry a turkey that will be injected with a "southern style injection"

and im going to come up with some kind "southern style" stuffing.

the rest is up to my wife. (but im sure we will do the cooking together)

ohh yeah...and its just my wife and i this year. :'( but it will be all good...

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i was just talking to my buddy, like 15 minutes ago, and he mentioned the deep fried turkey, never heard of it before but it sounds DELICIOUS!!! Any body know where I can get some in SoCal. ---- I'm hungry. Frank you need to bring some of that good food cookin to SoCal, we'll make a meet of it ;)

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Thanksgiving for me is tomorrow and we're cooking steaks instead of the played out trendy turkey. I'm taking a 4 day weekend and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. 8)


That means tomorrow is FRIDAY. :o
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Yeah Doc I hear ya! 4 day weekend for me too!!!

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Goin home to so cal wednesday. Havin a little get together with all my HS buds and get faded and have my disfunctional family dinner

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EAT ....

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i got polish style... too much awesome food perogies, pies cakes pastry, gallon jug of wine....mmmmmmm im ready for this

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I am going to my wife's family to tell them WE ARE HAVING A BABY!! WOOT WOOT!!

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i have to work from 10-6 so i get to be gone from 8:30-7 ???

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dam, im watching "emeril live" right now...I cant wait to start cooking!

its going to be some good eatin!

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My wife and I arent making the 800 mile trip home, so we are going to have a fairly traditional turkey dinner here with some friends who didnt travel home for the holiday. Since there is no family that means there is a lot more drinking, which is cool. We go pretty traidtional with the food, but we have to have at least 1 or 2 Italian dishes. The one thing I miss is the pepperoni. In my family they take the meatballs, sausage, and pepperoni, throw it in a big pot of sauce, and let it simmer for hours so all the oils from the different meats mix. God Damn I am going to miss that.

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My wife is working (flight attendant) and is going to Anchorage Alaska. She wanted me and my son to go because she has a 25 hour layover where we could go eat at a resturant there, but I said funk dat. I'm not flying a million hours to a place colder than this.

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my old man is coming to town, so Im gonna hang out at my sisters and eat some grub n ---- like that.

oh and i got some digits at a bar saturday so I might try to hook that up, do something fun.

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Yeah but you'd still be able to "tap dat ass". :)

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you shoulda went, isn't it like daylaight all day long this time around?

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Im gonna throw a turky on the smoker with some hikory.This will be my first year smoking/grilling a whole one so well see what happens.

My wife is going to make cookies,carrot cake and citrus cake(like carrot cake but with citrus zest).Shes the ---- a bakeing and makes all the ---- from scrach.
No Betty Crocker mix in my house ;).

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my turkey is marinating.....
its injected with beer, some tony's, garlic, salt, worsersire sauce, and lime juice.
then on the outside its rubbed with kosher salt, and some more tonys. this ---- is going to be good.

if you look where its discolored around the leg and near the wing, that discoloration is the injection
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/2375Jb6j6/206824.jpg


D16forlife:
i have smoked about 10 turkeys already this summer and stuff....do a mixture of charcole, and hickory. soak the hickory in water for about an hour and make sure the charcole is white before you put it in the smoker.(start the charcole in a "chimney"
ohh yeah, and make sure you have a water pan to. that turkey will be absoutly mouthwatering. one more tip, cook it till the breast temp is 160 degrees then when you take it off the smoker, wrap it in foil and let it sit for about 20min. mmm....
read up. im on this board alot also...
http://www.texasbbqrub.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1542


dam, im gettin excited about tommrow.

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eat dinner early than be at home all by myself :'(

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Thanks frank!But Im no n00b @ smoking ;)
Back in Cali I would smoke meats year round(oak,hickory,apple wood,cherry wood,walnuts,mesquite)yum,yum :P.

Ive just never done a whole turky.Last year I dismemberd it.I just hope this thing cooks all the way through in time.Its going to take a while so I think Im gonna start it up early in the morning.

I usually start my coals with a propane torch.I hate lighter fluid.

But Ill take that last tip.Thanks! ;D

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I would plan for about 1.5 hours per pound.
i have gotten up at weee hours to start cookin. then once it starts...go back to bed.

but check out that link, lots and lots of really really good tips/recipes. if your gonna do it, you may as well do it right. ;)

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good website Frank.
http://img123.exs.cx/img123/6105/turkey2.jpg
^^that turkey looks good too!

I think In going to try the beer can method though.
In this case Im thinking Ill shove a big can of Fosters with the marinae up its ass and see what happens :-\.

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I have done many many "beer can chickens" the chicken is good.

beer can turkey, its not so good. :P

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Having Turkeyday at my brothers this year. My parents went on vacation haha. Driving to Seattle tonight so I can have a solid day of stuffing my cake hole and playing GTA. Yee haaa!

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Has anyone here tried Turducken?
I just heard about it and it looks kinda creepy. It is a hen inside of a duck which is inside of a turkey and layered with stuffing.
http://www.sirlunchalot.com/Turducken-thumb.jpg

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:-X...but you never know till you try it i guess
this year we had chicken and ribs. Lastyear we BBQed a turkey and had a $65 chunk of prime rib and a nice ham

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That turd-dunkin looks like :-X.

My bird is done!
Only took 2.5 hours to smoke the bad boy with some oak.I had to try a little so I hope my fam. doesnt mind it having a big bite in it :P