My apologies to our Canadian members...
What are you doing for (American) Thanksgiving ?
Smoking the bird? Traveling ?
Us ? We're loading up the Motorhome and heading to my brothers home in Charlotte, NC
Yep, we're gonna park in his driveway, put Christmas lights on the RV.. "National Lampoon" style!
I'm going to smoke the Turkey in the BPS. We'll have a small turkey or a breast in the oven for the gravy thing.
I'm going to attempt to make smokey gravy, but I'm not going to give it much hope.
We are staying home. We will have about 10 people for dinner , 7 will be here Wed -Friday or Sat, so I have a few meals to cook ;D
I'm not smoking my turkey (ducking to avoid flying objects :D) but will brine and then put an herb paste under the skin.
I'll do a non-smoked recipe post later I'm prepping a bunch of things today :) White rolls, Pecan/Cranberry Wheat rolls & Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake. Also spaghetti sauce for lasagna for Wed night.
The last couple weeks I have made and frozen stock for gravy & stuffing, stuffing bread and cornbread. Made cran-apple sauce & cran-blueberry sauce.
The next couple days will be chocolate cream pie & a huge apple crisp. Then the rest on Thursday.
We're staying home. Everyone seems to come here - can you still call daughters in their 30's kids?
I'm practicing on a top round roast today. Cold smoke and then into the Big Easy.
Technical note. I'm doing the bisquettes by hand. They seem to take 30-35 minutes with no cabinet heat. I use the stove timer. 50/50 Oak and Mesquite, four pucks.
I'm going out tomorrow to get a fresh bird in the 14-16 pound range. I'll brine it overnight and then go pretty much the same route as the RB if the RB works out.
My daughter brought over her old artificial pre-lit tree and assembled it for us. Charlie Brown style. But, it saves a few bucks and a lot of needles on the floor.
Hope you enjoy your TG FL!
Having already cooked three turkeys in the last couple of weeks (one kalua, one "fried" in TBE, and one smoked and finished in TBE), SWMBO and I are opting to get out of town. We're flying to San Francisco on Wednesday and will have Thanksgiving dinner at the Marine Memorial Club (great turkey, champagne included, and in the same place we're staying which makes napping easy before Happy Hour). SWMBO's daughter and a friend plus some old friends of ours from Oregon are coming on on Friday so it looks like a weekend at the Ferry Building, North Beach, Chinatown, and Tadich Grill (assuming I don't freeze to death between venues).
Quote from: ArnieM on November 22, 2009, 10:39:02 AM
Hope you enjoy your TG FL!
Thanks!
We're leaving Tuesday after school gets out, we'll wally-dock somehere down the road when we get tired. Finish the drive on Wednesday.
I've sent the brine recipe ahead and they will purchase a fresh bird on Tuesday-Wednesday. It will go into the brine Wednesday night.
Smoke in the BPS Thursday.
Its always a little nutty when our two families get together. We will have 6 kids - 17,16,6,5,4,3 underfoot.
I'm trying to get all of my "stuff" together that I need - bisquettes, ET-73, bubba pucks...
Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone!!!!
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
Staying home, just the two of us.
Well, I usually get invited to a friends or my sisters house, but nothing yet. I went ahead and bought a turkey and will try to smoke it this year. Hadn't done one yet so I've got my fingers crossed.
Happy Thanksgiving All!!!
We're staying close to home... Got a sick critter.
Smoking another 10 pound turkzilla for Thanksgiving. I might actually start it midnight before, so it'll be done in the AM for some FTC time while we fix the side dishes.
I'm working the day after Thanksgiving. :P Almost out of vacation time for the year, so I need to get some hours in for the time off around Christmas.
Kevin - give a shout if you need help! I'll be around and online.
Quote from: FLBentRider on November 22, 2009, 10:48:04 AMWe will have 6 kids - 17,16,6,5,4,3 underfoot.
Two words for you, FL.......
Duct
Tape
Quote from: squirtthecat on November 22, 2009, 11:21:06 AM
Kevin - give a shout if you need help! I'll be around and online.
Thanks, I may just do that!
Tell Squirt his uncle Hal loves him.
Not unless I'm trying to get in his pants. Ewe didn't want to go there! :P
Quote from: squirtthecat on November 22, 2009, 11:21:06 AM
We're staying close to home... Got a sick critter and this might be his last week.
Which one squirt? The old one with the diabetes?
Having Thanksgiving at my sister's house with other relatives. I'm not smoking anything this year. I got my ham in the cure late, and ti won't be fully cured until Tuesday, which doesn't leave much time for to smoke and cook it. I'll smoke it on Friday and freeze it for either Christmas or New Years.
Not sure yet. I may just stay home and smoke cheese. I may go to my sisters for dinner. ???
Quote from: FLBentRider on November 22, 2009, 10:17:42 AM
Yep, we're gonna park in his driveway, put Christmas lights on the RV.. "National Lampoon" style!
Be sure to get some pictures of that!
Let us know how the smokey gravy turns out...
Unless something changes, I'm staying home with the kitties gnawing on that big bird I won Friday night.
I'm doing two Turkeys (1 brined, 1 not) One in bradley and finished in oven. One in Traeger.
Traveling 2 hrs with Turkeys Thanksgiving Day, eat, come home, head to Deer Camp.
Gonna be 40* on Thursday with rain mixed with snow... Good day to hang out inside w/ all the food!
I'm definitely starting my big bird Wednesday around midnight.
Mrs and MIL are fixing those nasty sweet potato thingies, so I think I'll do up some of Hab's Syracuse Salt Potatoes (http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=7350.msg83010#msg83010) for Squirt and myself..
Quote from: squirtthecat on November 23, 2009, 05:10:21 AM
so I think I'll do up some of Hab's Syracuse Salt Potatoes (http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=7350.msg83010#msg83010) for Squirt and myself..
Those are on our menu too, carbs and all!
Quote from: FLBentRider on November 23, 2009, 06:59:13 AM
Quote from: squirtthecat on November 23, 2009, 05:10:21 AM
so I think I'll do up some of Hab's Syracuse Salt Potatoes (http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=7350.msg83010#msg83010) for Squirt and myself..
Those are on our menu too, carbs and all!
You have to eat carbs on Thanksgiving, it just wouldn't be right if you didn't. I made three kinds of bread/rolls ;D
SoDaks are going to NoDak for family dinner. Put store purchased 14 pounder (along with a couple boneless t-breasts) in one bucket. Put a wild bird (about 10 pounds) in the other bucket. Both have the same Rytek brine going. Will take 'em out Wednesday morning and put in the 130-140 smoker for a few hours. Finish in oven. Travel Thursday.
Quote from: deb415611 on November 23, 2009, 08:51:15 AM
Quote from: FLBentRider on November 23, 2009, 06:59:13 AM
Quote from: squirtthecat on November 23, 2009, 05:10:21 AM
so I think I'll do up some of Hab's Syracuse Salt Potatoes (http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=7350.msg83010#msg83010) for Squirt and myself..
Those are on our menu too, carbs and all!
You have to eat carbs on Thanksgiving, it just wouldn't be right if you didn't. I made three kinds of bread/rolls ;D
I got a couple cans of Pillbury rolls. That's the extent of my baking abilities.
Speaking of carbs...
Mashed potatoes, 50 ways:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes-and-cooking/50-mashed-potatoes-1--10/index.html
Ah yes, Am making a small batch of oyster dressing that t2 does at his Canadian Thanksgiving.
The women over ruled me again. A standard roasted turkey. :(
Quote from: Oldman on November 23, 2009, 04:31:17 PM... standard roasted turkey.
I used to be pretty good at those but don't think I even remember how to do one anymore.
QuoteThe women over ruled me again. A standard roasted turkey. Sad
Ha! I get the same response, Olds. They challenge me to smoke a turkey not on a big holiday but I haven't rose to the challenge yet. Have a good Thanksgiving neighbors, enjoy the food and the family!
T2
Quote from: classicrockgriller on November 23, 2009, 12:18:03 PM
Ah yes, Am making a small batch of oyster dressing that t2 does at his Canadian Thanksgiving.
Hey do you have cashews in that stuffing. They go great with the oysters.
ok, cashews will be added, thanks
Not cooking anything this year. Will be traveling to my mothers and then the wife and 3 of the kids will go home and me and the 8 yr old will do a little doe hunting friday morning and afternoon.
Good luck and hope the hunt is good and the time spent w/ the 8 year old is better.
I let a 9 yr old sit with me on my sat afternoon hunt, what a trip.
He's already shot a doe during rifle season and a doe with his bow this year.
Very sharp little kid, and of course he had to drive the 4 wheeler.
Good for you CRG for teaching the youth what its all about and all the rest of you that help to educate the young to the ways of the outdoors. And showing them where it really comes from.
I will be working all thanksgiving. UNFORTUNATELY But oh so fortunate at the same time.
That sucks. Will you at least get home in time to sit down with the loved ones for dinner.
All decorated for Christmas!
(http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk7/flbentrider/bradley/DSCN5053.jpg)
Quote from: FLBentRider on November 28, 2009, 05:11:17 PM
All decorated for Christmas!
Looks great!
Chalk body outlines... Tough neighborhood, eh?? :D
FLBR,
Before you left on your trip you mentioned National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and parking the RV in the driveway. Because of that, all I can see is you standing in the driveway with a cigar in your mouth, beer in one hand, waste hose in the other hand and saying "$hitter'$ full!". :D :D
All seriousness, your RV looks great. I know you guys had a great time and that BPS looks like it kicked butt or butts as the case may be.
KyNola
I did snake the sewer hose toward the swale...
It wasn't hooked up...
Quote from: KyNola on November 28, 2009, 08:17:52 PM
all I can see is you standing in the driveway with a cigar in your mouth, beer in one hand, waste hose in the other hand and saying "$hitter'$ full!". :D :D
There's your Christmas card photo!
(http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz53/63KevinG/Bradley%20General/xmsvac.jpg)