We have a "new" lady member of the family that has invited everyone to "her first Thanksgiving turkey dinner"...do you think we should tell her about the plastic baggie of innards packed in the turkey or just let her find out the way most folks do.....after it's been in the oven all afternoon??
Even when making sure that you're not producing too much smoke with a "dirty fire", cherry wood yields a more blackened appearance to the meat.Originally Posted by Uncle Jimbo
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To much cherry wood smoke and you go from a deep rich red color to looking black...
Thanks for the advice Smokeywolf and Mary B. Maybe I will drop my ratio down to a 50/50 mix of cherry and hickory for the first time using cherry.
For the rest of the dinner we will be having dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy made from the gizzard, heart and neck juice juices when you make broth. Some type of veggie and that will be it. Just my wife and myself anymore so it will be small and I will be eating smoked turkey for a week.
And I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I would go 25% cherry/75% hickory myself... it is one of the woods where a light touch is way better than to much. And poultry skin seems to soak up smoke faster than say a pork butt or ribs.
Thanks Mary. I will try that for the first time.
Turkey with Mama's recipe bread stuffing. Butternut squash, mashed potatoes, peas, home made apple and pumpkin pies with real whipped cream and an excellent sharp cheese.
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just took two pumpkin pies and a pecan tart out of the oven.
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My wife is always VIOLENTLY opposed to anything "non-traditional" for Thanksgiving, so that means turkey, mashed taters, dressing (baked and stuffed), corn, green bean casserole, rolls and pies. Any suggested variations are met with a samurai-like defense.
Although she did ask me to deep-fry the bird this year, so she didn't have to deal with roasting it. But nothing is allowed to be injected into it except butter.
Thank you sir ! Enjoyed those pictures !just took two pumpkin pies and a pecan tart out of the oven.
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Moved Thanksgiving to Saturday, my neighbor and her aunt are going to MPLS to visit my neighbors sick sister(hurt her neck at work when she was attacked by a student at the school she teaches at). Work comp is fighting to not pay anything, she is in massive pain... MRI shows a ruptured disc in her neck compressing nerves. I told her she has to put her foot down and go see her doc then let her medical insurance duke it out with work comp.
Two batches of brine cooling. House smells wonderful.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms *shall not be infringed*.
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny."
- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
Bird and stuffing prepared. Into the oven at 11:00, then the big wait to start the sides.
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Goin' to Cracker Barrel. Heck, we'd better go get in line now!
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It just adds more flavor, and the look of surprise on her part will be well worth it. Let it ride............
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No way! Make sure she knows so they make it to the gravy!It just adds more flavor, and the look of surprise on her part will be well worth it. Let it ride....
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Made some changes to the menu and had to work around an unforeseen. Mrs. smokeywolf said to save the goose for Christmas. She wants two turkeys for TG day. Also, wants me to make my old dressing recipe instead of buying the small batch custom stuff we usually buy. had to postpone everything (including sleep) while I spent 12 hours last night, trying to pass a kidney stone. Got her done this morning about 0530. **** kidney stones.
Dressing was finished about 1000 this AM. Two brined and injected turkeys on the smoker by 1130 hrs.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms *shall not be infringed*.
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny."
- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
Will be having turkey an stuffing, roasted deer leg ,taters, corn, homemade pumpkin pie, an shoo fly pie
Elk tenderloin with French fries.
Charcoal grilled backstrap, stuffing, home canned sweet corn, salad, and carrot cake.
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