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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I got the bag thingy and am going to definitely use some of the things suggested on this thread. Thank you guys!
reminder to self......one of the worst days to shop at Walmart is the day before thanksgiving. I typically stay away from Walmart and use our PX, commissary, and local places. But the in laws insist Walmart is the place to be. I am sitting in the car while they fend for themselves. I spent about half an hour just walking around thanking employees and wishing them a happy thanksgiving. Even got two hugs out of it |
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 You just got to get mean and mean it.
 
Location: Arkansas | sassy&tessa - 2013-11-27 10:13 AM My dad does the best turkey ever. His secret? brown paper bag. No joke. The turkey doesn't get dry and it is delicious. He stuffs the turkey too. I know he uses the dry crumb thigns you get in a bag wtih a bunch of other crap I don't know (I would have to ask) and he stuffs that baby full. No one has ever been able to top my dad's turkey and stuffing. No joke. And my favorite food is turkey and stuffing so that is saying something.
Putting the turkey in a brown paper bag is super easy and cheap!!!
Years ago, before the "bag", we all cooked our turkey in brown grocery bags. Put the bird on a roasting pan and stuffed every thing in a brown paper bag and pinned it closed or used another bag to cover what stuck out.  |
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Location: North MS | I'm doing this right now- http://howtobbqright.com/smokeaturkey.html I heard about it on the Rick and Bubba Show (great show out of birmingham, AL). The recommend this grilling persons methods and I believe them. I don't have the items to smoke the turkey, but I'm soaking it in their brine recipe (or will be as soon as it cools off). I bet it will be good!
Also homemade mac and cheese- who doesn't love that. Noodles, pack of shredded cheese and stick of butter. Salt and Pepper. Basic and can't go wrong. |
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| Probably a little late, but I'm up cleaning and doing the final prep stuff so tomorrow will go as smoothly as possible :) The absolute best way I have found to do a turkey is this way:
1.)Take a pound of softened butter put it in a bowl and add about a third to a half container of poultry seasoning and then whip it with a mixer.
2.)Then roll out a sheet of waxed paper and plop all of the butter in the middle, use the paper to roll your butter into a log and put it in the fridge. I usually do this the night before because the butter needs to harden.
3.)Take your turkey out of the packaging and rinse the whole thing inside and out, DO NOT FORGET TO TAKE THE BAG OF GOODIES OUT!!!
4.)Pat the turkey dry with paper towels and separate the skin from the meat.
5.) remove your butter from the fridge and cut it into 1/4 inch "coins"
6.) Place all of these coins under the skin of the bird, and rub any leftovers on the outside.
7.) put the turkey in the oven bag, follow the directions and you will have the BEST, juiciest, arteries slamming shut, heart attack inducing turkey you have EVER tasted!!!
I hope you have a fantastic thanksgiving missroselee!!!! And everyone else on BHW!!! |
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | So my mother in law and father in law did their ****dest to ruin Thanksgiving for everyone. We only live 20 minutes apart now. Yes his mom used to live with us until his dad decided to come visit and NOT leave, and personal issues arose with him mom trying to cause trouble between us, so they got told to move out. His parents have never liked me, have forever talked poorly about me to everyone else, but in despite of it all I have always done my best to help take care of them and make sure they have everything they need. I would never make my husband feel like he's married to someone who doesn't care. I do care, I don't have to always like them, but I do care.
They REFUSED to come to the house for dinner. I knew they would. Two days ago we let them know what all we purchased to cook, including a Turkey for them (I wanted a ham but knew they wanted a turkey), and we made plans. Yesterday I had to take them shopping and I noticed they bought a turkey, so I knew they were going to pull this. I just hate that my husband pays the price for it in the end. I just hope I can make up for it by doing everything I can to make him smile.
Anyways, everything turned out awesome!!!! I did the bag thing with the turkey and put the oranges in it. I did a homemade raspberry glaze for the ham and it was beyond delicious!!! I used frozen raspberries, thawed, white cooking wine, and corn starch.
We ended up going to a friends house, taking all our food with us, and had an awesome time! We didn't know they weren't doing anything for thanksgiving so it worked out awesome...and we scored a home made pumpkin pie!! |
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Location: Who knows | Sorry you had to deal with douchbag antics, but glad you ended up having a great Thanksgiving despite it.  |
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 Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
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| So did the in-laws just stay at thier own place and eat by themselves? If they did it was thier loss! Glad you had a great day despite them.
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | euchee - 2013-11-28 9:41 PM So did the in-laws just stay at thier own place and eat by themselves? If they did it was thier loss! Glad you had a great day despite them.
I guess that's what they did. i really don't know. I have a feeling they invited other family members up for saturday because she asked what hubby was doing on saturday. He has to work CQ duty (24 hour duty) that day. |
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