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I would love to have you. Then someone other than hubby would really apprectiate my home grown turkey.

I really wish you could be here Queen Mum. You would understand my craziness.
 

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It is strange I look forward to Thanksgiving. I have issues with my family too, though things are getting better in more recent years. My mom seems to have figured out if she isnt nice, she gets kicked out. I will not be spending the holidays with my family. My folks live with my older sister in Spokane. I think that is why mom is getting tolerable; my big sis had to invite them to live with her when her SOB Ex decided he didnt want to pay child/spousal support anymore. It has given both of them some perspective. My little sis on the other hand. last time I visited with her I almost strangled her.

I will be spending the holidays with my in-laws, who I like only slightly better than my family. I am sure they will complain about my turkey not being Butterball and my stuffing not being Stove Top but the difference is I no longer care. I enjoy cooking, I am cooking for me and hubby and I dont care what the rest of them think. They can go out to a real dinner at Bob Evans afterwards for all I care. I am not entirely certain but I suspect my MIL believes homemade and made from scratch = cheap. We will have hubbys boy all 4 days and that will be wonderful!

Thanksgiving when I was a kid was great. We would go to my Grandparents and there would be food on the table all day. We would play outside, collecting pecans from the trees, running around climbing trees and playing croquet. Or we would play board games inside in teams, everyone playing. I would do puzzles with my G-Grandma. I dont expect things to be like that, my Grandparents were unique. But the holiday does bring back some good memories.
 

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The turkey is in the oven. I put stuffing in the body cavity and the aromatics in the neck cavity. I will flip him over in about an hour. My boys are enjoying their pumpkin pancakes. I will start the giblet stock here in a few minutes. Then maybe I can get my kitchen clean. It is dark and drizzly outside, but supposed to clear up later.

One of my silkie hens has gone broody. Either the others have quit laying or she is rolling all the eggs under her each day. I am going to let her go and see what happens.
 

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Happy Thanksgiving! I love to cook Thanksgiving dinner. We usually get stuck going to my dad and step-mom's house and she never makes any of the traditional foods. We usually just have ham! :rolleyes: This year I got to cook and I loved it! I made a yummy turkey, homemade giblet gravy, fresh cranberries simmered on the stove with some sugar and real mashed potatoes, and homemade stuffing! It was great. I hope your meal turns out good and you enjoy the food that you loved preparing. :D
 

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Sounds like you enjoyed your day...unless it went to heck once your inlaws arrived :lol:
 

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Things went great. The inlaws raved about the moist, tender turkey, except their kids. My nephew is 13 and wears a size 12 shoe, he will eat anything. My nieces picked at their plates, complained, whined, there was even a crying temper tantrum from the youngest because she wanted mac and cheese from a box. Somehow they managed to find their appetites for pie and large bowls of ice cream. I managed to ignore them and had a good time. It is getting to the amusing point.

Overall it was nice. The food was good. The Cowboys won the game, though they sure tried to give it away with penalties. My boy decided to stay the night and keep Grandma company. It was nice since it is the first holiday without Grandpa.

The turkey was wonderful! Thank you Elevan for the recipe. It was so tender, I almost didn't get it flipped, the meat was falling off the bone. The wings fell off, the legs were almost off. Hubby had to wrap the bird in a towel to flip it. We couldn't carve it, it was too tender. We just pulled the meat off with fingers. I used a fork to cut it on my plate. I wasn't too happy with the gravy, I didn't let the stock reduce enough so it was weak but it was still good.

Hope everyone had a nice Turkey Day!
 

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jodief100 said:
The turkey was wonderful! Thank you Elevan for the recipe. It was so tender, I almost didn't get it flipped, the meat was falling off the bone. The wings fell off, the legs were almost off. Hubby had to wrap the bird in a towel to flip it. We couldn't carve it, it was too tender. We just pulled the meat off with fingers. I used a fork to cut it on my plate. I wasn't too happy with the gravy, I didn't let the stock reduce enough so it was weak but it was still good.

Hope everyone had a nice Turkey Day!
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I am so glad to hear it!!! I developed that recipe last year and was very happy with it. Used it again this year and loved my home grown bird. It's one of the few recipes that I've decided to share that will be in my cookbook (if I ever get done with it). So to hear rave reviews makes me feel great.
 
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