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Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
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to scribble on it. So Here goes. The Thanksgiving Day turkey sale wars are starting. I bought one Saturday for .37 per pound. 7.50 for a turkey of about twenty pounds. You say you don't like roast turkey that much neither do I BUT if you cut the bird up into smaller pieces you can treat it like any kind on meat. Last night my friend made spicy wings on the grill. Tonight I marinated about a three quarters of a pound of breast meat and grilled it. I have canned it in the past for use on the boat, used it for the meat on shish kabob. Boiled the skeleton for stock and picked the meat off and made soup. For about 7 bucks it is a pretty good buy.
 
NYSail

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Thanksgiving

While on the water Thanksgiving morning with the family, I will remember that. And do not forget the pie please....gotta have the desert!
 
Ross

Ross

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A pumpkin pie made with turkey fat in the pastry

is second only to pastry made with goose fat. Refrigerate the fat, freeze the flour, work very quickly, don't forget the salt. A roasted turkey thigh, with a baked potato, steamed carrots with a little brown sugar and orange juice, some cranberry sauce and you have thanksgiving dinner for two.
 
Brian D

Brian D

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Ah...

Making my mouth water... Then there is chili made with turkey.
 
Scott21120

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Turkey on the grill

We have cooked our Thanksgiving turkey in a Weber kettle grill over charcoal for many years. Once you had it done this way it's hard to go back to oven cooked.
 
Paul Akers

Paul Akers

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Dec 3, 2003
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Just Read in the Paper...

...this morning that the grocery stores will sell Turkey (highly-guarded prices, frozen) at a loss rate to intice shoppers into the store with the hopes that they will buy the more profitable "fixin's". The paper recommends that they be purchased frozen at the lower price and stuck into the freezer for another time so as to take advantage of the lower prices. Do this even if you are buying a fresh turkey for Thanksgiving. Gobble, Gobble!
 
Rick Webb

Rick Webb

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Jun 2, 2004
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Absolutely Scott

I really do not like turkey but it is tolerable cooked that way. We have been doing ours that way for twenty years. I even once stuffed my grill in the trunk and took it to the inlaws in New Jersey just to cook it that way.
 
Ross

Ross

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Rick if you ever try turkey meat cut into

chunks and seasoned and grilled I am sure that you will come away with a different feeling about turkey. You can slice it raw and pound it thin and treat it like veal. You can make small chunks, seasoned and dredged in flour and and pan fried like chicken nuggets. Roast a breast half, boneless, well seasoned, let it cool and slice it for sandwiches.
 
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Tom

Ross get a life!!!

Surely you can think of something besides turkey!!!! Blank paper could be sailcloth cut into the perfect sail. Think blue and it's a cool winters day without a cloud. Farther north it's a lake frozen and ready for the iceboat. Surely the blank page can make you think of something besides turkey!!! BTW; While we are on the subject. My wife picks the bones and makes turkey pot pie. Hot and fresh from the oven it sure warms up a cold day....of course this is after being out on the sailboat with the rail in the icy water....maybe calm it down a bit and we are ghosting along watching the egrets along the shore and the bald eagle sitting in a snag on shore as the osprey circles preparing for a dive. The cormorants are everywhere chasing fish. The lone loon calls out for it's unseen mate. The wind is making little ripples on the icy black water. Sipping hot tea sweetened with honey as the full just comes up behind the mountain..... more than one way to fill a page.
 
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Cathy

We do turkey on the grill too

Scott- We've been doing our turkey on the Weber grill (indirect method) for many years too. It's smokey & wonderful! I think if I ever changed by guests would be sorely disappointed. Plus, since I have one over, it leaves the oven free for baking other things.
 
Ross

Ross

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Tom, You are of course quite right

There is much to be said for creative thinking and careful observing. I once saw a bald eagle and a great blue heron dive for the same fish, the heron won. I didn't know that they would take a fish while in flight.
 
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Chris

Ah, yes, turkey recipes...

First, Ross, you PAY for turkey?? *pop Here on Long Island, they give 'em away as a promo to get you in the store and spend money an all the peripherals for which they over charge. Spend $300 in the month before Thanksgiving, get a free bird. Then, what to do with it. Mr. Bean wore one on his head, with his face inside the cavity. I grill it, indirect method, on a charcoal grill with plenty of soaked apple or hickory wood for smoke. However, before cooking, I take out the carcass by slitting down the backbone and working the meat off the bones and then stitching it up after removing the bones, spreading the meat with stuffing or pate, plopping a four pound smoked butt in there and seasoning. That way, it looks great, cooks evenly, is JUICY, and slices across the bird instead of having to carve. Then, the sandwiches, the curry, the korma, the chili, the kebabs, the soups...the list goes on... But seriously, you PAY for it?? *yks
 
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tom

Those Great Blues are Tough

It sounds incredible but up at the marina in Guntersville one winter day after sailing we were unloading the boat and I noticed a ruckus over on shore. Two redtailed hawks were trying to catch a great blue. They were flying around trying to grab him and he was poking them with his beak. This went on for a few minutes and then the red tails gave up and the great blue started fishing again. The red tails must have been pretty hungry to try and catch a great blue. He was lucky in that he was under a tree with his back near the trunk. That way the hawks had to approach head on and they couldn't dive. I have no doubt that the hawks would have had supper if they had caught him flying or out in the open. The number of birds around Guntersville and Wheeler is incredible for a couple of months in late December until early Febuary. Geese ,ducks,cormorants and even Sand Hill Cranes. Last year a Whooping Crane must have made a wrong turn and was at Wheeler for a few days. Watching wildlife is one of the most important aspects of sailing for me and my wife. Though turkey gets all of the press I prefer ham!!! Usually we will have a turkey and a ham, sometimes even a beef roast. The virginia ham is hard to beat. While you are dreaming throw in some sweet potatos and pumkin pies. My wife kinda pushes the turkey, she says because it's better for my heart...
 
Ross

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
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Lee, why would you ask such a question

Cathy is runway model beautiful, Martha Stewart capable and Rachael Ray vivacious.
 
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Benny

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday

as the world seems to stop to let the family get together. That is the only day out of the year that I will cook and eat turkey accompanied by all the trimmings. The rest of the year you can have it. Being the fact that we only buy about 10-12 pounds of turkey a year the price per pound is really not an issue. Chicken wings taste best made out of chicken and hamburgers made out of beef. Somehow sailing and turkey don't go together.
 
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