How to do a great feast- tips from Granny...

Happy Thanxgivinâ?? kids. I imagine a lot of you are still learning how to put together a fantastic Turkey Day feast. Even if you are alone, or just the two of you, cook up a feast! Freeze it for later in managable chunk and eat â??easyâ?� for a week or two. Iâ??m going to give you some â??how toâ?� advice today. Hopefully your turkey is thawed and in the fridge by now. Tonight, put a couple of onions in the fridge (fewer tears tomorrow). First things first, you chop up the onions and fry them â??goldenâ?� in a sauce pan. Pour them into a bowl and set aside. Leave some in the pan. Now get the turkey out. Remove the giblets (liver and such) from the skin under the neck. The neck will be inside the body cavity. I feed the sissored up liver to the cats- it gets them out from under my feet. The stomach (butterfly shaped thingie), the heart and the neck all go into the onion pan to fry a little. When the meat is browning, add water, bring it to a boil, then set on low and forget it. If you happen to have one of those hypodermic type basters, make a cup of tea from a tsp each of onion powder (not onion salt!), thyme and sage. (Italian seasoning will work too) Strain the tea and inject. OR if you donâ??t have an injecter, mix the same herbs into about a quarter cup of softened butter, chill until it firms up. Slip your hand under the skin of the turkey and slip in the herb butter. Doesnâ??t look great, but it sure tastes good! There is a little fat around the body cavity. Cut it off and place it on top the the breast, drumsticks and wings to keep foil from sticking to your bird. Take the foil off for the last hour or so to brown. Potatoes- are cheap and easy. Get one of those curly metal scrubbers (I prefer the stainless steel ones) and lightly scrub the potatoes. They clean up easily! If there are shallow bad spots, or you want peeled potatoes, just scrub with a bit more vigor! Now hereâ??s what to do with them. 1/3 are peeled and stuck into the lovely turkey broth about 30 to 45 minutes before the turkey is done At this time add some fat carrots and celery chunks into the broth. 1/3 should be just cleaned and popped into to the oven naked. The last 1/3 should be oiled or buttered, sprinkled with herbs and wrapped in foil to bake about 1 hour before the turkey is done. Sweet potatoes can be baked naked and help prevent zits, prevent illness and helps your night vision (vitamin A). It also tastses great and nuked with cinnamon and then adding milk, itâ??s a quick hot breakfast. Theyâ??re cheap now. Stuffing â??Remember those onions you fried, hereâ??s where they get used. Take some of the packaged stuffing and find the little flavor packet if it has one. Mix part of it (you likely arenâ??t going to make a whole package- cooked stuffing does NOT keep well so more is not better!) into the onions, add a raw egg and chopped celery and mix. Now add a couple of tablespoons of the neck broth to the egg and mix . Now add the stuffing bread to the egg and mix well. Put you egg coated stuffing into a baking pan or ovenproof bowl. Now get that broth and pour some into the stuffing. Mix. Is it soft and squooshy? OK, cover with foil and bake for an hour. During the last hour of baking, make a salad, get some canned biscuits baking, open the cranberry sauce and then grab some big apples (Granny Smiths are good). Cut them in half, remove the core, fill the hollow with some chopped walnuts and brown sugar, sprinkle with pie spice or cinnamon. Oil a baking pan, place the apples in it, as the turkey and all comes out. Pop them in the oven and bake until soft. Serve with slightly sweetened ½ and ½ . Or buy a pie and put it in. Now comes the eating! Try to keep all your predation to the turkey on one side. After everyone has filled up, remove the untouched breast. Put it in a gallon baggie with some broth. The hindquarter becomes a second frozen dinner. Any remaining broth is boiled down and frozen to be mixed with leftovers to make a quick hearty soup for a winterâ??s day (you'll never want Campbells again!). Sandwiches, tacos and chili can finish the bird. The bones (that look bare) are boiled again for soup and a surprising amount of meat can be picked off them. If you have a pressure cooker, use it to make the bones so soft that they crumble and feed them to your pups! They LOVE it. You have just created a feast! Have a good one! :thumbsup: Granny Storm Crow :stoned:

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Originally Posted by Storm Crow

Happy Thanxgivinâ?? kids. I imagine a lot of you are still learning how to put together a fantastic Turkey Day feast. Even if you are alone, or just the two of you, cook up a feast! Freeze it for later in managable chunk and eat â??easyâ?� for a week or two. Iâ??m going to give you some â??how toâ?� advice today. Hopefully your turkey is thawed and in the fridge by now. Tonight, put a couple of onions in the fridge (fewer tears tomorrow). First things first, you chop up the onions and fry them â??goldenâ?� in a sauce pan. Pour them into a bowl and set aside. Leave some in the pan. Now get the turkey out. Remove the giblets (liver and such) from the skin under the neck. The neck will be inside the body cavity. I feed the sissored up liver to the cats- it gets them out from under my feet. The stomach (butterfly shaped thingie), the heart and the neck all go into the onion pan to fry a little. When the meat is browning, add water, bring it to a boil, then set on low and forget it. If you happen to have one of those hypodermic type basters, make a cup of tea from a tsp each of onion powder (not onion salt!), thyme and sage. (Italian seasoning will work too) Strain the tea and inject. OR if you donâ??t have an injecter, mix the same herbs into about a quarter cup of softened butter, chill until it firms up. Slip your hand under the skin of the turkey and slip in the herb butter. Doesnâ??t look great, but it sure tastes good! There is a little fat around the body cavity. Cut it off and place it on top the the breast, drumsticks and wings to keep foil from sticking to your bird. Take the foil off for the last hour or so to brown. Potatoes- are cheap and easy. Get one of those curly metal scrubbers (I prefer the stainless steel ones) and lightly scrub the potatoes. They clean up easily! If there are shallow bad spots, or you want peeled potatoes, just scrub with a bit more vigor! Now hereâ??s what to do with them. 1/3 are peeled and stuck into the lovely turkey broth about 30 to 45 minutes before the turkey is done At this time add some fat carrots and celery chunks into the broth. 1/3 should be just cleaned and popped into to the oven naked. The last 1/3 should be oiled or buttered, sprinkled with herbs and wrapped in foil to bake about 1 hour before the turkey is done. Sweet potatoes can be baked naked and help prevent zits, prevent illness and helps your night vision (vitamin A). It also tastses great and nuked with cinnamon and then adding milk, itâ??s a quick hot breakfast. Theyâ??re cheap now. Stuffing â??Remember those onions you fried, hereâ??s where they get used. Take some of the packaged stuffing and find the little flavor packet if it has one. Mix part of it (you likely arenâ??t going to make a whole package- cooked stuffing does NOT keep well so more is not better!) into the onions, add a raw egg and chopped celery and mix. Now add a couple of tablespoons of the neck broth to the egg and mix . Now add the stuffing bread to the egg and mix well. Put you egg coated stuffing into a baking pan or ovenproof bowl. Now get that broth and pour some into the stuffing. Mix. Is it soft and squooshy? OK, cover with foil and bake for an hour. During the last hour of baking, make a salad, get some canned biscuits baking, open the cranberry sauce and then grab some big apples (Granny Smiths are good). Cut them in half, remove the core, fill the hollow with some chopped walnuts and brown sugar, sprinkle with pie spice or cinnamon. Oil a baking pan, place the apples in it, as the turkey and all comes out. Pop them in the oven and bake until soft. Serve with slightly sweetened ½ and ½ . Or buy a pie and put it in. Now comes the eating! Try to keep all your predation to the turkey on one side. After everyone has filled up, remove the untouched breast. Put it in a gallon baggie with some broth. The hindquarter becomes a second frozen dinner. Any remaining broth is boiled down and frozen to be mixed with leftovers to make a quick hearty soup for a winterâ??s day (you'll never want Campbells again!). Sandwiches, tacos and chili can finish the bird. The bones (that look bare) are boiled again for soup and a surprising amount of meat can be picked off them. If you have a pressure cooker, use it to make the bones so soft that they crumble and feed them to your pups! They LOVE it. You have just created a feast! Have a good one! :thumbsup: Granny Storm Crow :stoned:

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You know, if you didn't bunch that up into one whole paragraph, and split it up a bit, i'd have been able to read it... ;)

and this is why most people in america are fat

Possum, actually, I've lost 59 pounds in the last 2 years! (2 years ago I weighed 235 pounds; today I weighed in at 176 after last night's feast- I cooked the feast yesterday so I'd have something to feel thankful for today- NO COOKING! lol) And I guess you missed the part about freezing half the turkey for later use. I wasn't suggesting absolute gluttony, I was suggesting saving time and hassle by cooking in quantity and reheating it for days, if not weeks into the future. The reason Americans are fat is all the McDonalds type crap that they eat the other 364 days of the year and the fact that they live on the couch or in the computer chair! A couple of days of feasting a year doesn't make you fat, kid. It's the constant stream of junk foods. Mfgr, you are right that I should have broken it up into paragraphs- Sorry about that! I've been mildly hyper later and I forget details like that.

100% agree, fat comes from 1. being lazy and not doing anything active and 2. from eating unhealthy things that the body can't use as efficient nutrients (ie McDonald's) - a healthy homemade turkey dinner using natural and organic ingredients is very good for weight loss when eaten in moderation.

I also think a lot of pharmaceuticals can make a person store unhealthy amounts of fat, and Americans are notorious for overuse of pharmaceuticals.

besides, why would I listen to someone with bouncing tits on their avatar? that makes you SO much more credible.

Granny, you can be in charge of my weight-loss diet any day. I think you have a lot of life experience and I am glad somebody finally gave us a step-by-step guide to making a big dinner.

Why, thank you, Monkey! As a matter of fact, I'm defrosting the half turkey breast from Thanksgiving today. Normally, I would have waited a week or so, but it's my hubby's birthday and he LOVES turkey. I'll make up some gravy from the saved broth I froze, add a salad, some of my younger son's fresh baked bread and some sliced, frozen strawberries (with a little splenda and some very cold 2% milk- almost as good as ice cream) to finish it off. I imagine my boy will also make a "box" cake (I won't make them, too unhealthy- I don't eat them, so why should I bother?- I might make a "special" sugar free, low cholesterol, brownie or two, however. lol) I think I have enough vaped pot to make some for this evening. Have a nice weekend, Monkey! - Granny

thanks Granny - you too! :) I don't go in for the fake sugar; I like the turbinado sugar best. But I love strawberries; that sounds delicious!

Diabetic! Dang it! No more honey in my tea and no more sugar in anything! I use stevia in my tea now, but it doesn't disolve very well in cold stuff. I don't really like the splenda, but it sure cuts the calories! (Sigh!) Necessary evils!

Damn it won't let me give you reputation again for your turkey recipe! :(