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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Anybody want to give me pointers on how to cook? :)
Only cooking for four people, but I have to do a turkey and a ham because I want a ham, and hubbys parents will moan and groan about not having a traditional turkey (I'm very untraditional). I got small ones of each, and we are planning on checking with local churches tomorrow to see if we can make plates to take to anyone in our town.
Anybody have really good recipes for home made stuffing? I have a few I can use but want to see if anyone else has better ones. I am attempting a raspberry glaze for the ham. And I have absolutely NO IDEA what to do with a turkey. Last year we did nothing for thanksgiving (hubby worked), the year before I did a duck, year before he was deployed, and the year before that we lived in two different states :).
Also, anyone got a good sweet potato recipe? Just enough for two people since I won't eat any. |
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Location: Oz, Kansas | Buy a turkey breast & put it in the crock pot for 8 hours do the same with a small ham badabing badaboom & your done, except for the sides.
Since ham is precooked it will only take about 4-5 hours on low setting.
Edited by lookout hill 2013-11-26 4:42 PM
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc.......When I was doing two meats for TD, I have actually cooked the turkey the day before, sliced it off and put it in another roasting bag with lots of juice over it and reheated it on TD. I also make my mashed potatoes the day before. Make a regular batch of mashed potatoes but throw in about 4 oz of cream cheese (and I add a little garlic powder). Put in a buttered casserole dish and heat in the oven on TD.
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:42 PM Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc.......
Seriously? They make baking bags for turkeys? |
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Location: Oz, Kansas | missroselee - 2013-11-26 3:43 PM NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:42 PM Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc....... Seriously? They make baking bags for turkeys?
Yes I have used them before & they aren't too difficult. If you don't want a lot of leftovers you can do the turkey breast. It is yummy & very moist in the crock pot & frees up the oven for other baking.
For sweet potatoes I get 5-6 potatoes, boil, peel, slice spread out in 9 x 13 baking pan, cut up a stick up butter & spread out throughout the pan, drizzle a lot of brown sugar over the top, bake for about 30 mins on 350 & then last 3-5 add marshmallows on top. It is yummy gooey goodness. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | lookout hill - 2013-11-26 5:46 PM missroselee - 2013-11-26 3:43 PM NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:42 PM Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc....... Seriously? They make baking bags for turkeys?
For sweet potatoes I get 5-6 potatoes, boil, peel, slice spread out in 9 x 13 baking pan, cut up a stick up butter & spread out throughout the pan, drizzle a lot of brown sugar over the top, bake for about 30 mins on 350 & then last 3-5 add marshmallows on top. It is yummy gooey goodness.
That sounds about right to make the hubby happy :) |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | missroselee - 2013-11-26 4:43 PM NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:42 PM Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc....... Seriously? They make baking bags for turkeys?
Yes, they are called roasting bags....you can use them for any kinds of meat. I added more to my post above...... |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:47 PM missroselee - 2013-11-26 4:43 PM NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:42 PM Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc....... Seriously? They make baking bags for turkeys?
That sounds good! I thought about doing the turkey the day before so i wasn't trying to do both the same day. They are both smaller but still. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | missroselee - 2013-11-26 4:43 PM NJJ - 2013-11-26 5:42 PM Buy one of the baking bags for the turkey...you can't go wrong with it and it will have the times to cook, etc....... Seriously? They make baking bags for turkeys?
It's the only way I will do a turkey. They have the directions on the bag and they say to slice and put celery in the bag with the Turkey and it does make for a moist Turkey.
Of course you put the Turkey in the bag in a big roasting pan. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | You can find the roasting bags where they sell all the Ziplock and Glad bags.
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| We brine the turkey overnight in a cooler with salt, sugar, and herbs. And cook it in the bags everyone has mentioned. Comes out really moist. |
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Location: Washington | Do yourself a favor, buy a smoked turkey and just reheat it. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | fatchance - 2013-11-26 6:23 PM Do yourself a favor, buy a smoked turkey and just reheat it.
Are you saying I can't cook?!?!?!?!?! Just kidding....bad thing is I already bought the turkey. |
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Location: Randolph, Utah | fatchance - 2013-11-26 4:23 PM
Do yourself a favor, buy a smoked turkey and just reheat it.
That is how we always did it! I love the smoked turkey! |
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Location: Flat Rock,IL | Since we are talking how to cook a turkey!
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| I remember my first turkey....
Easiest thing to do was just rub the turkey all over with butter, salt, and pepper. I think I put some chicken broth in the bottom of the roasting pan too? Covered the turkey in foil, had a little opening at the top, then every hour I would suck up the drippings and drip them back all over the turkey.
Cooked at 325 until meat thermometer on the thick part of the thigh read 165.
The last thirty minutes I took the foil off to crisp the skin up a bit.
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| Think simple and delicious and quick ...
Look for a couple of cans of sweet potato/yams in chunks or whole in the canned goods with heavy syrup ...
Spray your cooking dish with pam .... put yams in the oven ... heat them up ... then put a thick layer of mini marshmallows on top and put back in oven to brown just a little bit ..
THEN SERVE ...
this is a huge can of yams so you can see what to buy .... http://www.webstaurantstore.com/bruces-whole-sweet-potatoes-in-heav...
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Since we're talking about this and this is my first time to cook Turkey too and I have very limited oven space and I want to divide some of my cooking up into the crock pot, do I make the turkey in the crock pot or the dressing? |
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Location: OH. IO | DONT FORGET TO REMOVE THE GIBLET BAG, and the neck |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | oija - 2013-11-27 8:25 AM Since we're talking about this and this is my first time to cook Turkey too and I have very limited oven space and I want to divide some of my cooking up into the crock pot, do I make the turkey in the crock pot or the dressing?
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