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6 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Good to see yer still kickin.

 

Happy Thanksgiving Henry.

Thank you sir it’s been a rough year but still above the grass and very content. I hope you are as well 

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6 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Having Smoked Bologna, Sweet Potato Casserole, Baked Beans, Corn, and Yeast rolls. 

I am going to slice up a ten pound round of Balogh this weekend I might just try smoking a couple of pounds 

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Just a turkey breast this year cooked by my lady. Not an entire turkey. She also cranked out some sautéed Brussel Sprouts.

 

I made mashed potatoes. Also paid for a couple items my lady found and picked up. Real yeast dinner rolls and a carrot-walnut cake. These were at a "farm stand" in the area, just simple ingredients, no palm oil or so-called "natural flavorings" lecithin or such anywhere near these traditional goods.

 

My lady did a quick reduction on the drippings rather than building a full gravy. Still full of flavor and so easy. No cooking down the neck and organ meat, lots of veggies, creating a reduction, a roux, and all the other steps.

 

Back when my home (with the ex) was the center for big holiday meals, Thanksgiving prep started over a week before the meal. Massive prep, shopping, fire up second fridge, more prep, a couple days of cooking, a day of final execution, and about an hour of scarfing. Back then, stuffing meant making bread (several different loaves of various flavors), cooling them, cubing them, drying cubes in the oven, toasting the dried cubes, making all the veggies, making the stuffing and cooling it, stuffing the bird and also making a separate casserole of stuffing, mixing some of the bird stuffing into the casserole and some of the casserole into the bird stuffing, saving one casserole for later, and don't even get me started on what went into making a quart of gravy which is also a three day process.

 

Cranking out an extra desert of pumpkin pie was easy to fit in around all of it, this for those who did not like the apple pie.

 

So looking back, we absolutely did not have turkey this Thanksgiving, and I am thankful for that breast which is under two pounds. And for the local farm store. And making a nice Pyrex full of mashed potatoes was a relaxing experience.

 

As thankful as I am for this online community, I am also thankful today was just my lady and I, not a house packed full of too many people eating too much food way too fast.

 

Hmm, now I feel a turkey sandwich coming on with a side of mashed potatoes... And maybe a slice of that carrot cake. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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Oh man! 

I used the neck and backbone,  along with some onion,  carrots,  celery, salt, pepper,  and a bayleaf to make some stock for the dressing.   Last weekend I had made some pumpkin biscuits,  which were just  OK, so we cubed them and dried them to use for the dressing today.   

 

When the chicken was at 160°F i started the dressing.   Did a fine dice on half a large onion and 2 stalks of celery,  sautéed those in some butter,  added the stock, the cubed pumpkin biscuits,  and a box of Safeway Turkey Dressing. Stirred it and put the lid on to let it hydrate.

 

Cooked the chicken to 165°F on the breast.  Basted it with melted garlic butter and put it back for about 15 minutes. Let it rest,  jointed off the legs,  thighs, and wings, quartered the breast.    Everything was perfectly cooked, moist,  tender,  full of flavor. 

 

The Walmart pie was a very pleasant surprise.   Flaky crust, good pumpkin taste,  well spiced, and,  surprise of surprises,  not overly sweet.   In fact,  just barely sweet.  

 

I think in the morning I'll go to the store and get a small bottle of heavy cream.   I think a slice of pie with some of the cranberry sauce,  and a little dollop of slightly sweetened vanilla whipped cream,  and a cup of coffee with a little cream and whipped cream will make a good breakfast. 

 

 

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Rereading this I realized that our meal was almost all from the Food Bank....the Chicken,  the Cranberries and Oranges for the cranberry sauce, the Potatoes,  Onions Celery, Carrots were all Food Bank. 

The pie, the box of dressing,  and the canned pumpkin I used in the Biscuits that went into the dressing were reduced price either because of dented cans or expiation date price cut.  

 

Only full price items were the butter, lard, flour, and spices in various applications.  I guess our out of pocket for the meal was about $6.  If I don't count the pantry staples of butter, lard, flour,  and spices it drops to about $4.

 

Not bad.   And one of the best Thanksgiving meals we've put together. 

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My wife made some great turkey soup today for dinner. Just one more great thing about having a turkey for a holiday meal. Versatile Leftovers ;)

 

I have another in the freezer for Christmas. :D

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I find turkey to be a whole lot more carvin' and pickin' work than is chicken.

We have turkey once a year, just "because".

 

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