What did I cook this weekend.....

[unionrdr]

Well, the turkey turned out excellent, where even the legs were juicy & tender! My PM Irish red, with the extra bittering I feel needs cutting down, went amazingly well with the turkey, stuffing, & this stout gravy my middle son makes at Custom Culinary. Even the Cooper's English bitter, brewed more like a Fuller's ESB, worked well with the stuffing & stout gravy. Not bad with pumpkin & Dutch apple pie either! But the coup de grace was what my middle son did to the candied yams. He drained most of the sauce off them from the butter & sugar after they cooked tender. Then layered the sliced yams in a baking pan with Kraft caramels & topped with mini-marshmallows to bake. OMFG!!! The toasted marshmallows mingled perfectly with the sinfully good caramel sauced yams! Perfect combination I never would've thought of doing. Damn, that was really good! I'm trying to think of a way to work that dish into a pie!...
We baked up some artisan bread rolls to go with dinner, like mini split top loaves. Gonna make a double batch of cheddar bay biscuits for dinner today with a ton of left overs. A stuffed 23lb bird goes a long way. It'll take me till today's dinner to make it all the way around the table once. Still need to get to the home-made cranberry sauce & green bean casserole. As it turns out, we cooked some 11lbs of yams, & a 10lb bag of taters for mash.:rockin:

 

[ericbw]

For now, just one pic of some of the pies. Sour cream apple and sweet potato.

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[mattmmille]

Did a little somethimg different this year, no turkey

pork shoulder, pulled pork
rubbed it, and injected it
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wrapped it up, for 12 hours
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cooked it 180 degrees..
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ate it
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Mmm...Bone Suckin' Sauce from my neck o' the woods! Their regular BBQ sauce is awesome on ribs!

Having a leftover sandwich, but out of American cheese and mayo, so added Pimento Cheese to the turkey and dressing Sammie on some kind of energy bread from a Wegman's.

 

[beergolf]

no leftovers for me since I went non- traditional for Thanksgiving.

Roast beef, Potato leek soup with crispy pancetta. Yellow beans with ****ake mushrooms, onions and red peppers.

mmmmm

 

[Gavin C]

no leftovers for me since I went non- traditional for Thanksgiving.

Roast beef, Potato leek soup with crispy pancetta. Yellow beans with ****ake mushrooms, onions and red peppers.

mmmmm

Highly offensive sh1take mushrooms


Watch that sailor-talk @beergolf .

 

[podz]

Did a little somethimg different this year, no turkey

5.8 ounces (164 grams). WTF? Are the aliens taking over?

Meat looks good enough to make me drool.

 

[podz]

Highly offensive sh1take mushrooms

I have a love-hate relationship with mushrooms.

Sh1take have a wonderful flavor, as do most.

I made a fried beef liver with some fried porcini mushrooms and ate it with a nice chianti. I was fancying myself like Hannibal and ****. And then I wound up laying naked on the floor of my shower trying to vomit my intestines out through my mouth and asking SWMBO to throw more water on me.

Freaky mushroom batch? I tried it again, because I am stupid or something. Porcini and I thought I would die.

Those sh1take mushrooms seem to love me, though.

 

[applescrap]

Gorgeous how did you cook the turkey? Also mind sharing the exact giblet recipe

 

[odorf]

no leftovers for me since I went non- traditional for Thanksgiving.

Roast beef, Potato leek soup with crispy pancetta. Yellow beans with ****ake mushrooms, onions and red peppers.

mmmmm

DAMNNNN. that roast beef is look'n fine as HELL

perfect color, pink on the inside, it looks mighty juicy.

only thing I would add to that dish is a knife and fork !!!!!!

 

[odorf]

turkey hash

debone turkey leg, dice the meat
dice a potato
dice an onion

little olive oil, cook the potato, first till tender
add turkey, and onion till onion is caramelized

serve with a couple of fried eggs cup of coffee

 

[ericbw]

no leftovers for me since I went non- traditional for Thanksgiving.

Roast beef, Potato leek soup with crispy pancetta. Yellow beans with ****ake mushrooms, onions and red peppers.

mmmmm

What cut of beef is that?

 

[unionrdr]

I made two boxes of the cheddar bay biscuits to go with Turkey day leftovers yesterday. so that meant two pouches of the garlic/herb mix in 2/3C of real, melted butter. Was it just me, or does the resulting garlic/herb butter you brush on top of'em taste like garlic butter a couple people dipped their lobster in? Dang, that was good! After brushing 19 cheddar biscuits twice, I had plenty left & drizzled my turkey breast & thigh medallions with it. YUMMY! I gotta find out what sort of " powdered seafood" flavoring was in those foil pouches with the herbs & stuff? I'd swear it tastes like it? & I found it easier to use an ice cream scoop to dole out the dough onto the greased airbake cookie sheet. You're supposed to use about 1/4C each, so the scoop worked out perfectly. they rose up looking just like the ones at the restaurant! :rockin:

 

[wxman73]

We went to relatives for Thanksgiving, so no Turkey leftovers. Instead I smoked baby back ribs and made my first attempt at popovers. Wife made a simple macaroni salad- which is how i like it. Happily no one touched the bbq sauce. Popovers should have come out a little sooner i think. Washed it down with a nice hb IPA.

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[applescrap]

My daughter and i made these cookies nothing special but i won't ever get tired of making them with the kids. Alton brown recipe white sugar and more flour then the normal betty crocker which has less flour and powdered sugar. They are way less crumbly held up well browned nicely and frosted better. Then used 16 gallon (my old 2.5 g brewster) for first time to make mac and cheese and hige double batch beef stew. The mac and cheese is killer salt in the pasta water you know. A good recipe calls for Velveeta sharp cheddar mustard powder onion and we used some half in half in roux. Dug hard for beef stew recipe and found it on Once Upon a chef.

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[passedpawn]

^^ Reminds me of when I took my family to a fancy restaurant, place called Berns in Tampa here. The waiter talked my youngest boy into getting their famous mac n cheese. When dinner came, he watched us all eating our aged steaks with great envy. I think that's the last time I ever saw him order mac n cheese. It was an inflection point in his gastronomic timeline.

 

[wxman73]

Berns is incredible from what I hear. My folks tell me they give tours as well. Would love to see that place.

 

[Natdavis777]

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[mattmmille]

Smile! (I could have gone a different direction...you're welcome!) Cooked on Thanksgiving for stock for the gravy, along with bird juice...nobody wants the giblets in the gravy, so I get to eat them! Also made a nice pâté mousse-like spread out of the liver...and nobody would touch it. Too bad father in-law is suffering from Alzheimer's. I used to be able to count on him to eat the stuff everyone else scoffs at.

 

[Gavin C]

Smile! (I could have gone a different direction...you're welcome!)

What might have been. I can only imagine the jocular hilarity.

...nobody needs to know there's giblets in the gravy,

FTFY

 

[applescrap]

Here's the beef stew 8qts? I ate it with sour cream and Sri Racha was killer and my pumpkin beer has cleared up nicely

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[unionrdr]

I got voted down on the knoephla hot dish for turkey pizza. Made a double batch of biscuit dough with 3C shredded cheddar in it. I then rolled jalapeno string cheese sticks cut in half lengthwise in the crust. Pizza sauce, the turkey light & dark meat chunks, red & green sweet peppers & mushrooms. Topped off with more shredded cheddar;

 

[Staestc]

The pastrami saga is over. After being smoked to 200 deg the other night, it's been wrapped in the fridge. Yesterday morning, I let it set out a bit, then steamed it back to 200 deg. Put it in a hot over for just a bit after that to crisp it up a little. The sliced it up after three of our kids and their spouses showed up. I served turkey, ham, and pastrami for sandwiches (and or Rubens).

Well the pastrami lasted about 3 minutes, but I can enjoy lots of left over turkey and ham! I am really pumped about the way it turned out. It was worth the effort. Next time I will be doing 8 -12 lbs instead of 4!

(P.S. Ignore the blob of fat on the cutting board from where I scraped the remaining fat cap off!) (P.P.S. I made the refrigerator pickles too, and they were better than the Vlasics!)

 

[unionrdr]

Refridgerator pickles are great! I got mom's recipe for them...

 

[Gavin C]

The pastrami saga is over. After being smoked to 200 deg the other night, it's been wrapped in the fridge. Yesterday morning, I let it set out a bit, then steamed it back to 200 deg. Put it in a hot over for just a bit after that to crisp it up a little. The sliced it up after three of our kids and their spouses showed up. I served turkey, ham, and pastrami for sandwiches (and or Rubens).

Well the pastrami lasted about 3 minutes, but I can enjoy lots of left over turkey and ham! I am really pumped about the way it turned out. It was worth the effort. Next time I will be doing 8 -12 lbs instead of 4!

(P.S. Ignore the blob of fat on the cutting board from where I scraped the remaining fat cap off!) (P.P.S. I made the refrigerator pickles too, and they were better than the Vlasics!)

Slobber inducing posts like this and the other mouthwatering smoke related dishes I have seen here, led me to ask Santa Claus for a smoker.

Unfortunately Santa feels I have enough on the patio and has put my letter in the bold pile.

Some hang-dog looks and doe-eyedness on my part will be required over the next few weeks in an effort to sway his Nordic steely resolve.

 

[applescrap]

I shouldn't tell you then I just put about 3 half racks of pork spare ribs on the smoker. It's only 21 today but the smoker did admirably cooking the pork tenderloin pork butt the other day in 10 degree weather. My mom gave me the ribs defrosted so I had to cook them

 

[podz]

I shouldn't tell you then I just put about 3 half racks of pork spare ribs on the smoker. It's only 21 today but the smoker did admirably cooking the pork tenderloin pork butt the other day in 10 degree weather. My mom gave me the ribs defrosted so I had to cook them

Don't worry, I'd still be grilling in our near freezing weather if we weren't in the middle of the season-changing windstorms. Branches flying around everywhere...

 

[ericbw]

The pastrami saga is over. After being smoked to 200 deg the other night, it's been wrapped in the fridge. Yesterday morning, I let it set out a bit, then steamed it back to 200 deg. Put it in a hot over for just a bit after that to crisp it up a little. The sliced it up after three of our kids and their spouses showed up. I served turkey, ham, and pastrami for sandwiches (and or Rubens).



Well the pastrami lasted about 3 minutes, but I can enjoy lots of left over turkey and ham! I am really pumped about the way it turned out. It was worth the effort. Next time I will be doing 8 -12 lbs instead of 4!



(P.S. Ignore the blob of fat on the cutting board from where I scraped the remaining fat cap off!) (P.P.S. I made the refrigerator pickles too, and they were better than the Vlasics!)

Looks great! I'm going to do a pastrami with eye of round soon. Yours has great color!

Did you soak it after curing to reduce the salt?

 

[applescrap]

Hog heaven my mom would say the mac n cheese was super good so was stew...they were so fun to make in 4 gallon pot

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[Hoppy2bmerry]

Praline pumpkin pie.

 

[odorf]

I have rats !!!

I made a cake, put it in the fridge to set, went outside to do "stuff"
when I came back in, I think the couch burped at me. then I opened the fridge
this is what i found

2 egg layer banana pudding cake

2 cups flour [if self rising,omit next to ingredients]
2 teasp baking powde1/2 teasp salt
1/2 cup veg shortening
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teasp vanilla
1 cup milk
375, 25 minutes, 2- 8'' greased floured pans

if you use butter or lard instead of veg shortening
cut back sugar to 1 cup and milk to 3/4

take out of oven, cool
mix 1 package instant banana pudding
let set about 1/2 way,,,poke holes in the first layer with a fork
pour pudding over it
set the other cake on top
mix another pudding poke and pour
put in fridge and GUARD IT!!!!!



yeah yeah,,I know, INSTANT PUDDING!!!!!!
if you wish, make sum ho made pudd'n