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That soup looks pretty awesome rich. I may have to try it. Seems like the shrimp would be cooked sufficiently before 10 min though.

I use Tony's Creole in pretty much anything I cook. It's like crack.

Damn, that soup does sound good.

Bon Appetit

Hope your GI tract gets through the holidays intact.

Thanksgiving with the in-laws is pretty traditional. Turkey, stuffing, mashed taters & gravy, pumpkin pie. I'll sometimes bring along some oyster stuffing or maybe an injected turkey breast featuring one of these injections.


Butter Based Injection Sauce

Ingredients
•1/2 cup/120 mL chicken broth
•2 tablespoons/30 mL butter
•1 tablespoon/15 mL lemon juice
•1/2 teaspoon/2.5 mL garlic powder
•1/2 teaspoon/2.5 mL finely ground pepper
•1/2 teaspoon/2.5 mL salt
•1/4 teaspoon/2.5 white pepper

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes
Yield: Makes about 3/4 cup/170 mL


Preparation

Melt butter in a small saucepan. Add remaining ingredients, except the salt. Mix well. Add salt until mixture has a slight, but not overpowering salt flavor. Remove mixture from heat and allow to cool enough to work with and load into meat injector. About 5-6 minutes.




Cajun Turkey Injection Marinade

Ingredients
•1 cup/240 mL lemon juice
•1/2 cup/120 mL liquid crab boil
•1/2 cup/120 mL olive oil
•1/2 cup/120 mL melted butter
•2 tablespoons/30 mL onion powder
•2 tablespoons/30 mL garlic powder
•2 tablespoons/30 mL Cajun seasoning
•1 teaspoon/5 mL Tabasco
•1 teaspoon/5 mL cayenne pepper

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: Makes about 3 Cups


Preparation

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Heat until butter is melted. Stir and continue heating until sauce is very liquefied. Inject while still hot enough to stay liquid.



Christmas is more likely to be lasagna or spaghetti & meatballs.

Jsc810 wrote:
Ok as for wine, check out this Cab. It is only about $11 but wow it is impressive. We'll be picking up a case for the holidays.

A Beringers cab is a good wine ?? Shocking you have made that discovery.

Be just the wife and I for dinner on that day. Maybe go to the casino. Probably hit the steelhead fishing on the Wilson River since it is not very crowded that day.

Good thread JSC.

We will have my-inlaws, my mom, a couple of friends and 4 airmen from Lackland AFB. All basic training for the Air Force is done here in town and there is a program where you can sign up to have the kids going thru training over for Thanksgiving dinner.

No clue what the menu will be yet, but it will include smoked turkey breasts and BBQ.

Thanksgiving is always at our house. The two Turkeys and ham are my responsibility. Turkeys will be deep fried, injected with Garlic and Butter and dry rubbed with Tony's Creole. They come out super moist and delicious. Ham just covered in Honey and smoked for several hours. The rest is up to the Mrs. I don't want to get involved.

Corporate swill counts as fine wine at JSC's house?

OK.

Just regular old oven roasted turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes, squash, gravy. Mrs.O makes me a pumpkin pie, pecan for her. will probably have her brother, the Canadian snowbird over to share it all. Mentioning ham reminds me of the time my family went to Thanksgiving dinner at my Dad's wife's place. He remarried after my mother died. Anyway, it was HAM. HAM on Thanksgiving was blasphemy. My kids were not happy and neither was I. The next day I got a turkey and everything else and we had us a real Thanksgiving dinner at home.

Let me guess...

You only eat nails?

Softball Bat wrote:Let me guess...

You only eat nails?

I was thinking more like Shooter McGavin. Like he eats shit for breakfast.

If they served dick for Thanksgiving Schmick would be in hog heaven.

Turkey sandwiches for Friday, Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving.

We go for the traditional Turkey dinner. Roast turkey, gravy made from the drippings, mashed potatoes, dressing, cranberry sauce, some kind of veggie like peas or green beans. Usually some kind of relish tray with stuff like carrots, celery, olives, pickles, etc.

For the past few years my brother-in-law and his wife have had a large gathering at their house with mostly her extended family. I always roast the turkey and make gravy and take it over there but they moved and are now about an hour away. Plus she always wants to have a bunch of unusual stuff. This year she's talking about some kind of Italian turkey roll. No thanks. Not into Italian food for Thanksgiving. We may end up staying home with just our immediate family for T-day and go visit the next day.

I have three bottles of this arriving today and will probably break out at least one of them on Thanksgiving.





I discovered this winery last year, somehow, but I can't remember how. They're in San Luis Obispo county and known for Rhone varietals, especially Syrah, Rousanne, and Viognier. They have no tasting room and their wine club is closed to new members, but I'm on the waiting list and they occasionally make some bottles available then they've covered their entire allocation.

“…John Alban has always been one of California’s finest viticulturalists. There is no question that the fruit from his vineyards is as fabulous as can be produced in California…”
Intro to Alban Vineyards chapter as one of the 23 wineries in the United States recognized as among ‘The world’s greatest’”
— Robert Parker, The Worlds’ Greatest Wine Estates 2005

I used to host Thanksgiving (before we moved here) and there's a fair amount of pressure from my friends to host it.... but my husband's aunt also hosts and it's one of the few times we hang with them, so there it is.

Strange mix of Bay area people, there's the lesbians who are fabulous to talk to but vegetarian horrible terrible very bad cooks; the old people that host, wonderful people with very midwest traditional tastes as in there will be something that includes marshmallows and the Turkey is likely to be dry; the 50-ish silicon valley cool folks and their young adult daughters who will show up with something savory and some fabulous wine, and us... I'm known as the foodie but being as it's Thanksgiving I'm not one to mess with the greatest dinner ever.

I was upset last year when I realized no one does a sweet potato casserole or a buttery corn compote, and I HAVE to prevent the lesbians from screwing up the green bean casserole again. So I'm going to their Thanksgiving but I'm over inserting myself in the food to bring department.

I'll probably make one more attempt at taking it, my house is bigger, more natural seating without folding chairs, I have 2 stoves, they're in their 80's and it's a lot of work, etc, etc, etc.

I won't sweat the wine, in generally there's around 50 bottles, a craft beer fridge, and a full bar in our house. If it's here we'll open whatever, whenever as soon as the brought wine runs low. If it's at their house I'll grab a Rose of Sangiovese and go.

For after Thanksgiving Turkey Tetrazzini is the must have item.

MsCJ wrote:For after Thanksgiving Turkey Tetrazzini is the must have item.

Bingo.

schmick wrote:Nope, I just like the turkey, throw some salt and pepper on it and put it between 2 slices of bread. Not really interested in any of the other stuff.

Lemme guess, you go for the dark meat?

rack B!

shmick, do you actually make a turkey sammi with just s&p? How the fukk do you not choke to death?

smackaholic wrote:rack B!

shmick, do you actually make a turkey sammi with just s&p? How the fukk do you not choke to death?

d

No shit. I'm using a ratio of about 60% turkey to 40% mayo by weight. A couple of large tomato slices doesn't hurt either.

Mikey wrote:

smackaholic wrote:rack B!

shmick, do you actually make a turkey sammi with just s&p? How the fukk do you not choke to death?

d

No shit. I'm using a ratio of about 60% turkey to 40% mayo by weight. A couple of large tomato slices doesn't hurt either.

If Jesus had not given us gravy and cranberry sauce, I suspect most everyone in America would have choked to death by now. There is one way this will work without condiment assistance and that would be using some nice juicy thigh meat. When I roast a chicken I will frequently grab a thigh and a slab of good bread and have a feast. Nothing else needed.

I'm having Sushi Thanksgiving at my crib this year.

No....not T.hanksgiving.

Screw_Michigan wrote:I'm having Sushi Thanksgiving at my crib this year.

No....not T.hanksgiving.

You're having thinly sliced raw turkey?

Yum.

MsCJ wrote: I HAVE to prevent the lesbians from screwing up the green bean casserole again.

Because green bean casseroles are so hard to screw up. Just put more bacon on it.

2th that rack. Heartwarming story.

smackaholic wrote:

Mikey wrote:

smackaholic wrote:rack B!

shmick, do you actually make a turkey sammi with just s&p? How the fukk do you not choke to death?

d

No shit. I'm using a ratio of about 60% turkey to 40% mayo by weight. A couple of large tomato slices doesn't hurt either.

If Jesus had not given us gravy and cranberry sauce, I suspect most everyone in America would have choked to death by now. There is one way this will work without condiment assistance and that would be using some nice juicy thigh meat. When I roast a chicken I will frequently grab a thigh and a slab of good bread and have a feast. Nothing else needed.

Do you slack-jawed fuckwits not know how to cook a turkey without drying out the titties?

This year will be a repeat. More Thanksgiving at my mother in-law's house. In the words of Arlo Guthrie it will be a Thanksgiving dinner that cannot be beat. However it is not likely to generate any photographs and pictures and arrows add a paragraph on the back. So we're good there. Stay away Officer Obie.

My guess is that we will have turkey with all the fixin's. Will definitely have sweet potatoes with marshmallows, stuffing, mashed potatoes, some form of vegetable matter, cranberries and King's Hawaiian rolls.

We will be having my late father in law's brother from Pittsburgh at the dinner. He will no doubt regale us with stories about jazz singers and players from the 1940s and 50s. No doubt we will hear mention of some fellows named Toots or Dixie. You can bank on a story about Forbes Field and if he's feeling melancholy he will tell you about the cleanup at Okinawa.

Can't wait.

Goober McTuber wrote:
Do you slack-jawed fuckwits not know how to cook a turkey without drying out the titties?

I haven't cooked a turkey in a few years. But it ain't rocket science.

The oven should be somewhere between 175-200 degrees. It takes many hours.

Now I've led the horse to water, the googles can make it drink.

You're welcome.

Dinsdale wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:
Do you slack-jawed fuckwits not know how to cook a turkey without drying out the titties?

I haven't cooked a turkey in a few years. But it ain't rocket science.

The oven should be somewhere between 175-200 degrees. It takes many hours.

Now I've led the horse to water, the googles can make it drink.

You're welcome.

The brining helps too.

BSmack wrote: my late father in law's brother from Pittsburgh at the dinner.

Third cousins ex wifes brother in law ??

Derron wrote:

BSmack wrote: my late father in law's brother from Pittsburgh at the dinner.

Third cousins ex wifes brother in law ??

No, my wife's uncle. One of the very few living WWII vets out there and an all around great dude.

How fukking old is your OL?

My grandfather was a WWII vet, on one side, the other was a WWI rotc cadet.

smackaholic wrote:How fukking old is your OL?

My grandfather was a WWII vet, on one side, the other was a WWI rotc cadet.

Thing is my father-in-law was 18 years younger then his brother. My wife is 41.

BSmack wrote:

smackaholic wrote:How fukking old is your OL?

My grandfather was a WWII vet, on one side, the other was a WWI rotc cadet.

Thing is my father-in-law was 18 years younger then his brother. My wife is 41.

Kinda what I figured. You father in law would have to have been one damn old father to have a 41 year old kid and be WWII vintage.

BSmack wrote:

Derron wrote:

BSmack wrote: my late father in law's brother from Pittsburgh at the dinner.

Third cousins ex wifes brother in law ??

No, my wife's uncle. One of the very few living WWII vets out there and an all around great dude.

Nice. Probably some great stories to hear. These dudes are getting few and far between. My father in law has been gone 7 years and I looked hearing his stories driving an LST at Normandy. Real bad ass dudes.

If you were my son in law I would wish for the sweet grip of death too.

Moving Sale wrote:If you were my son in law I would wish for the sweet grip of death too.

That is all you got midget ??

Don't you have some criminal case to go lose and watch your client go to the hole for ??

Derron wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:If you were my son in law I would wish for the sweet grip of death too.

That is all you got midget ??

Don't you have some criminal case to go lose and watch your client go to the hole for ??

Sorry I was busy. Just walked a guy on 245(a)(1). His boss was so happy she slipped me a grand. But I'm sure you have been doing way better. Adding sand to soil to fuck it up must make you lots of caysh.

245.

(a) (1) Any person who commits an assault upon the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, or in a county jail for not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.

Sounds like a nice enough guy.

It was probably that pesky innocent until proven guilty thing that threw you off.
You might as well just wipe your ass with the USC.

Moving Sale wrote: You might as well just wipe your ass with USC.

Good idea. Schmick probably won't like it though.