Turkey & Memories. Defrost It Now & Share Some Stories or Recipes!
ArtAngel
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Turkey brings up mixed memories for me. I'm torn between duck and turkey but I'm leaning towards turkey because that's what I cook every year. According to the government we need to take our turkey and shove it in the fridge real soon. For every 4-5 lbs we need to defrost it in the fridge for 24 hrs. so if you have a 20 to 24 lb turkey you need 5-6 days in a fridge so that means your turkey should be in your fridge since this morning. But I don't trust the government or black helicopters, so my 15lb turkey got stashed in the fridge today and my Maple Leaf duck stays frozen.
Turkey brings back sentimental memories in all of us. Mine was in 2001. Just after the 911 incident. After swearing off men, my son stumbles into the soon to be love of my life, and invites him for Christmas. I cook up a storm, clean the house, shower, and wrapped in a towel with dripping hair, pull the cooked turkey on the counter and race to the bathroom to do my face. While applying makeup, I hear a loud clatter, race back to the kitchen to find my slobbering pitbull camming it's jaws into the turkey's left breast. It's on the floor pinned under his paw.
What do you think I did?
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You ate the pitbull instead? LOL ;)
FWIW, we do ham for Christmas :P
Laurie
I was seriously temped. But nope. LOL.
You served that bird! XD
Nope, nothing wrong with a variety of salads, cold meats and a bbq (depending on the current bushfire risk). It's so much easier
I am vegetarian now so if I'm at home I'll just get out a cook book from the Alps style and make something sweet. Of those I like Linzertorte & Vögelnestli.
Of the old fashioned stuff I remember from childhood I like plain old peppermint candy canes, apples (red delicious preferred), oranges (all types), and stuffing with gravy. Anytime stuffing is around I will stuff myself with it.
If I visit anyone then if it's self serve I will stay vegetarian but if I show up and just wind up with a plate full of food I will eat the meat they put on it.
LOL. Yep! I cut half the bad half off and tossed it. Shoved it back in the oven for twenty minutes. Carved it up and served it. I confessed the night he asked me to marry him. His response was, "That turkey was good. You should have kept the other side."
Now there's a thought. Maybe for New Years. I BBQ on a pig. Recently I had rollers put on it because it's too heavy to move otherwise.
My favorite stuffing is one I made when I forgot to but the apples. I used dried cranberries and savory as a spice. Been making it ever since. In Newfoundland (born there) they traditionally make Jigs Dinner for Christmas. In Newfoundland they go Mummering. That means they dress up to disguise who they are and drink and eat everyone they visit out of house and home.
We should post our meals here lol (just to gross nonesuch00 out)! Just joking. If seafood were excluded as a meat product, I could honestly say I eat more vegetables and fruit than meat.
I always seem to do turkey for Thanksgiving. Xmas varies, tho. This year, we plan to have Christmas Crab! My favorite Thanksgiving story is from when I was a teenager (and capable of eating half the turkey). My dad's friend John and I stuffed ourselves so much we just slid under the big dining table and fell asleep on the floor!
Here's a recipe for Pumpkin Chiffon Pie. *Warning* if you try this recipe, you may never be able to eat regular pumpkin pie again, because it will seem like concrete. Fair warning. This makes 2 pies, because that's what I always do, and because frozen pie shells come in pairs. (Me, make a pie crust? Get real...) Do NOT omit the gelatin, that's the magic ingredient.
Grandma Minnie’s
Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Ingredients for two pies:
2 frozen 9” pie shells (Marie Callender is a good brand)
1 large can Pure Pumpkin (not spiced)
2 envelopes Knox Gelatin (plain)
½ cup cold water
1 ½ cup whole milk
¾ cup brown sugar (for pumpkin mix, do not pack)
¾ cup granulated white sugar (for egg whites)
6 eggs, separated
1 tsp each ground Nutmeg, Ginger, Cinnamon (or 3 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice)
½ tsp salt
Directions:
Pierce the pie shells all over with a fork, then pre-bake according to package directions. The center may rise in the oven and need to be punctured again while baking. The pie shells should be a golden brown.
Separate eggs over a small cup to avoid contaminating either the pumpkin mix or the whites. Put the yolks in the pumpkin mix, put the whites in a bowl to be beaten later. I use an egg separator.
Soften gelatin in the cold water a few minutes. Combine pumpkin, milk, egg yolks, brown sugar, gelatin, spices and salt in a large saucepan. Mix thoroughly. Cover saucepan and cook carefully. Do not burn the mix. Reduce to a low heat after cooking starts, stirring often. Watch out for hot splatters. Cook 10-15 minutes, or until the mix thickens noticeably. Remove from heat to cool slightly, then beat the egg whites. Beat the egg whites until they start to foam before adding the white sugar. Add sugar a little at a time, while beating on a medium high setting. Do not over beat the eggs. After egg whites are beaten thoroughly, pour them over the pumpkin mix. IMPORTANT: Fold the pumpkin and egg whites together, do not stir! Once completely folded, spoon pie mix into pie shells. Leftover pie mix can be spooned into custard dishes. Put pies and custard dishes into the refrigerator immediately. The pies need at least 4 hours in the refrigerator to set. Pies can be made the night before. Serve with whipped cream. Let guests put on their own whipped cream. I use a whipped cream machine.
Just for more torture...
...sounds very good though I have to omit the yolks and just go with the egg whites.
...as I live myself, getting a whole a bird for the holiday is out of the question as I'd never finish it before leftovers started to go bad. Yeah I could just buy say a breast piece or something like that at the market, but just doesn't have quite the same feel as it did with the old family dinners. So, I tend to go "non traditional. like stir frys, curries, pasta, or baked fish. Yeah I know, I could go out to a restaurant but that it too expensive, again doesn't feel the same sitting down to dinner with a bunch of people I don't know, I'm just as good staying home in that respect Also, ot many places are open on the holiday around here save for a few pubs (while I like doing non traditional, pub nachos or Cajun tater tots just doesn't cut it as a holiday dinner).
May do baked trout this year with my specially seasoned red potatoes and roasted buttered baby carrots. Normally I splurge and get a decent bottle of Port, but I have excellent brandy this time so that base is covered.
That stuffing sounds delicious.
Eating meat doesn't gross me out but I about 6 years ago noted some big problems with meat, dairy, and egg production in USA. Up until 2012 I ate meat almost exclusively when I lived in Switzerland my diet almost everyday of the year was 3 16 oz Coca-Colas, 2 kebabs and one giant-sized choclate bar filled with cherry jam per day. LOL, so unhealthy & unbalanced but i oddly didn't gain weight as easily as when I became vegetarian. I honestly believe the calorie counts given for most carb products, even things like hot cereal grains are seriously underestimated by about 1/4 - 1/3. When I lived in USA though I mostly eat soup beans or variants of soup beans like burritos my whole life because that's all we and/or I could afford.
Nowadays, I am vegetarian so long now that I have lost my aquired immunity from the critters that live in USA producted meat, eggs, & dairy so that if I do find myself in a situation where it is just too rude not to eat what's offered it'll make me sick 4 - 7 days, especially eggs and other poultry products are exceptionally nasty. Also, blood banks won't let me donate blood because they think having lived in Switzerland I might be carrying Mad Cow Disease but that's pure silliness on their part because even the wild deer and moose in USA & North America are now confronting an epidemic of a varient of Mad Cow Disease.
That Pumpkin Pie recipe looks good! The best meal that I ever made myself is margerite pizza with homemade mozerella cheese & tomato sauce or even better, although I don't make it any more is basically beef sauted in cream, mushrooms, lemon zest, and white wine and it is called Züri Geschnetzeltes as a side dish Rösti (homemade hashbrowns). For the wine I just drunk more of the same i used to cook with, which was a Spanish fruity tart white wine called 'Felix' something-or-other. Here is a link to that recipe:
https://www.bindella.ch/de/zueri-geschnetzeltes-mit-roesti-_content---1--1317.html