What’s For Dinner? – IOTW Report

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  1. I do chicken like that. You get that bacon off the bird and crumble it in either mashed or baked potatoes is great. Personally, I think Turkey is overrated. The best I’ve had is deep fried, but my wife won’t let me do one because he thinks I’ll burn the house down. Hell, I’d set it up 100 feet from the house. It doesn’t matter. You pick your battles.

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  8. joe6pak

    One year the wife had a Turkey well underway in the oven but I decided I wanted to do a Deep Fried Turkey. So the day before a picked up a deep fryer, peanut oil and about a 15 pound turkey. Son of a bitch came out looking like a Cornish Game Hen. Like a freaken shrunken head. So yea, I’m banned from that activity. I cook all meal except holiday meals. And she does a damn good job at them.

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  10. OK, a fucking typo. My wife is without question “she”. Hetero man, I appreciate your ability nitpick meaningless bullshit. Good work. The DNC is looking for fine young specimens like you.

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  12. I don’t have any Thanksgiving specific recipes, but I’m pretty good at shit like Chili, soups, and lasagna. I was a prep-cook in another life. Jennifer told me last week she appreciates how I run a kitchen, which confused me a bit.

    “Get the fuck out my way! Fuck no! Cilantro last! Those mushrooms need at least 15 fucking minutes! Strip those fucking garlic cloves! We don’t use no heaping nothing! Measure it or get out! Taste it BEFORE you add more shit! Those fucking beans need to be washed!”

    I wonder how I stay married. Don’t get me started on how shit goes on in the garage…

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  13. Wild goose breast with the skin on…

    Shallots and add pearl onions if you like.

    Pick your favorite cream soup (I prefer the mushroom).

    Lay in a healthy bed of the shallots (inch deep on the bottom) and place the breast (season by rubbing pepper on top of the skin and add other seasonings if you wish {I do not}) on top of the bed in a slow cooker. Oblong slow cooker as you want the breast to lie flat and not stand up while cooking. Mix up the creamed soup using Half & Half instead of regular milk or water. Add the soup to the cooker filling it and the breast will float on top of the shallots/onions (skin on prevents it from drying or becoming tough during cooking). Prefer making the soup separate as fully mixed / no lumps and gives a head start for the slow cooker. Avoid washing the seasoning off the meat when adding to the cooker. Six or eight hours setting on the cooker. Simple and easy… push the meat down submerging the breast a few times during cooking near or at the end to wash you seasoning into the mix after giving it time to enter the meat.

    Cook up a batch of wild rice and use straight of go 50/50 with additional brown rice. The finished breast will go on top of a bed of this on your serving platter after removing the skin and bone cutting into serving slices. Pour the reserved mix of soup used to cook the breast on top and serve.

    Other side dishes/vegetables if you desire to also have some of the soup for topping/gravy. (I pig out on just the meat and rice)

    Some say wild goose (Canadian) to gamey, wild and tough. Done this way it is not and saves you the work of picking the entire bird, which done properly takes forever. Whole bird for roasting, breasting out picking just the breast much faster with not much meat loss. If you wish the legs are about the only real waste here and you could come up with your own ways to prepared those if saved.

    Without the edit function I’m sure I’ll have it improperly worded her…

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  17. FFS! y’all guilty of hijacking a thread that would’ve been a nice recipe sharing thing … but, no … Friday night no-sense-of-humor got the best of us … again

    sheesh!

    Great Aunt Arabelle’s Sweet Potato Casserole … a Thanksgiving tradition for over 70 years in my family

    3 cups sweet potatoes (40 oz. can – drained)
    2 eggs
    1 cup sugar
    1/2 tsp. salt
    1/2 stick margarine
    3/4 cup evap0rated milk
    1 tsp. vanilla

    melt margarine & mix ingredients

    Topping:
    1/3 cup margarine
    1 cup light brown sugar
    3/4 cup shredded coconut
    1/2 cup flour
    1/2 cup chopped walnut

    melt margarine & mix together

    put sweet potato mix in 13″x9″ pan
    sprinkle topping mix over sweet potato mis
    bake in oven 350 degrees for 1/2 hour to 45 minutes

    wonderful compliment to turkey … & particularly ham

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  18. We have about 20: people coming over. One buddy of mine seems to do a hell of a good Turkey on a Weber, he is in charge of that. I’m doing a ham. Everyone will be leaving with leftovers. All the he/she’s are what you would expect them to be.

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  19. Molon, it’s not too late. Hell, we have the whole weekend to share our wisdom. Plus, it’s sometimes fun to bump heads with someone. Heck we all have well founded opinions, and the reality is Hetero man did rightly catch me having made a typo, so you’ve got to give credit to the grammar police. Anyway, I’m frequently the Chef du Jour, I like discussing food prep.

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  20. @joe6 ~ son’s bringing a ham. he smokes it for 3 -4 hours. absolutely delicious.
    like I said, the sweet potato casserole goes great w/ it.

    the wife, SHE makes great, mouthwatering stuffing from a recipe of her mom’s … superb!

    dang, I’m hungry! gotta find me a good Italian Pino Grigio to go w/ the turkey … any suggestions?

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  22. Been deep frying turkey for the past seven years or so. Didn’t like the propane setup the first couple of times, so bought the Butterball-brand electric deep fryer…thing is awesome. Last year, fried the ham in it…I’m not a ham person, but it was very good.

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  24. @ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – Thank you! Cannot wait to try the sweet potatoes this way. Anything with coconut is yum. usually I make a recipe from Paul Prudhomme – a pound of butter, thinly slice lemons and oranges. It is also superb. Will have to find the whole recipe. recipe

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  26. Don’t know. Packing up the kids and heading to Kalispell to visit grandpa in the assisted living. We will have something good, perhaps at my sister’s restaurant. She usually cooks a really nice meal for her employees, a lot of whom are single. I’m leaving here Tuesday evening and taking it easy on the drive. I still have my arm in a cast.

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  28. I’ll roast a 7 lb. Turkey breast in an oven bag and fix some other stuff. It’s just me and my 84 year old dad, so it won’t be too elaborate. I’ll probably make some noodles, which are a family favorite. I’m looking forward to it.

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  29. Sliced turkey’s up to something in the neighborhood of $8/lb.
    That with some bacon, horseradish mayonnaise, and Swiss cheese will give me a helluva Turkey Club for Thanksgiving Dinner.
    (maybe throw in some tater chips …)

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  30. Not sure where I’ll be or whom I’ll be with. But I am thankful for so much and look forward to it. Steak would be my first choice.
    FJB

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  31. The sister-in-law insists on having mashed potatoes with our Thanksgiving feast. At the end of the meal there is this big dish of mashed potatoes with only one serving that has been scooped out.

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  32. My cooking for Thanksgiving and any holiday is over. Family members are gone, no reason any longer to put on big ass meals. I’m going on a cruise – let them do all the work. My turn to relax. It’s nice not to be under the pressure of shopping, cooking, cleaning, and leftovers.

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  33. I thought Hetero man was being funny, why are some of you so crabby all the time? This site’s comment section used to have me chuckling and helped to make the crappy news tolerable. Life is very sad without a few jokes here and there.

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  34. I always save room for my wife’s pumpkin pie. And now number 3 daughter has picked up the torch and uses the same recipe, and does it well too. We also have a killer cranberry relish recipe created by our niece that is amazing (but we are sworn to secrecy.

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  38. A few additional recommendations and/or suggestions:

    1) Consider Using Avocado oil instead of any other frying oil, especially for making popcorn. Can generally be found on the shelf at Walmart.

    2) If you like Sorghum Syrup (for sweet potatoes, coffee sweetener, or other sweetener substitute) order from Massdam Farms (in Iowa). Absolutely the best (and healthiest)! Can’t find any better or closer. Sixth year in ordering from them.

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  43. My dad passed twenty years ago this week. He and my mother had just returned from town to buy everything needed to prepare a Thanksgiving Day feast, but it was not to be. He was an incredible cook. His cornbread dressing was world class, the best I ever ate. He made the best Mayhaw jelly ever. His peanut brittle was beyond belief. His fried catfish was the stuff of legends. I always miss him around Thanksgiving, but he is one of the things I give thanks for.

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  44. Forty-eight years ago, on Thanksgiving Day, my ex and I were living in a 350 year-old cottage, ‘Elf Cottage’, in the English village of Kings Cliffe. I bought a twenty-two pound Butterball turkey at the base commissary. We cooked up a fantastic Thanksgiving Day feast and invited several of my single buddies from the squadron. It was awesome. My landlady from next door had never seen such a huge bird and asked what I was going to do with the parson’s nose. She was talking about the giant turkey’s tail bone. It was as big as her fist and it did, indeed, look like an English parson’s nose once you thought about it. I told her she was welcome to it along with the neck and gizzards. She was so happy and vowed to cook her husband a wonderful meal with the turkey parts. With two fires burning in the cottage fireplaces (because it’s as cold as hell over there), we all sat down to have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day meal. A couple of weeks ago, I managed to finally locate and call one of the guys who lives in Johnstown, PA who was at that meal. He told me that day was one he has never forgotten. One of the other guys is from South Dakota and we have been friends ever since those days. The English don’t observe Thanksgiving, but we did it up right. I’ve had many wonderful Thanksgiving’s but that one really stood out for me. Good times and great memories!

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  45. My little brother and I are on our own this year. The rest of the family have other places to be. Just got back from shopping for the fixins. 10lb turkey, stuffing, red potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Jason is bringing the vegetables.

    I think we will watch one or two of our family favorite movies that we watch over the holidays – Oscar, Clue, Scrooge, A Christmas Story and It’s A Wonderful Life.

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