If you don’t like turkey, fine, I get it. Some people just don’t like certain things. They should realize when their weird taste makes them the weirdos by the time they’re as old as the OP, but whatever. But extrapolating your distaste for Turkey to slandering all Thanksgiving food? That’s just straight garbage posting. Forget the proteins, let’s talk about the starches. You’re calling mashed potatoes and rolls “trash”? Vessels perfectly crafted to transport large quantities of butter and gravy into your food hole and you call them trash? Shameful, OP. Shameful.
We only make onion pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas because its a lot of work Harvest feasts are traditionally about packing on calories before lean winter months. We don't make Thanksgiving meals often because they're just too damn much, not because they're bad food
Best prep for any good skin-on salmon is -Montreal steak seasoning -pan fry skin down -add butter to pan -flip and pan fry a little more -flip back until done Don't need no stinkin' glaze
The smoke flavor for one, like with other meats. More even cook as well. Should Texans put their brisket in the oven rather than the traeger?
That way is fine, but salmon is delicious several ways. I eat it 3-4x/month: Honey pairs excellent - honey/bourbon/soy glaze Baked w citrus and butter Cedar plank Sous vide with herbs Mediterranean w feta and tomatoes and herbs Pan fried w butter and fixins
Trump wins the presidency and we get threads like this. Sad. I feel like the best solution is for the OP to drop a frozen turkey into fry oil.
taking screenshots of this thread, will see some of you purged come Jan 20 for slandering a (delicious) native bird. shameful posting.
I smoke turkey fairly often. Sometimes whole small turkeys, sometimes just a good sized turkey breast. If you know how to cook and aren't drying it out, it's delicious. Most of the people who say turkey sucks are shitty cooks IMO
I think turkey is very mid. Chicken is far superior. We should eat that bird on Thanksgiving. People say it's good fried but you know what's better fried?
I make a cheater gravy that is absolutely fire with beef bouillon, red wine, shallots, and heavy whipping cream. Use it for making poutine when I otherwise am not making a protein to start the gravy
Brined and smoked turkey is awesome. Also most people itt probably grew up eating a bad to mediocre oven roasted version that their mother or grandmother made. I usually opt for the ham unless it’s a turkey sandwich/dipped in gravy but that’s not an indictment on anything besides boomer cooking practices.
I've had either fried, roasted, spatchcock, etc. The fried and spatchcock are decent but not something to base an entire holiday around
So we are air frying a turkey because the one Cajun turkey we get every year is now over $100 and it’s only my wife and I that will eat it. Having to make a brined/smoked turkey breast and ham for my parents and our kid because they won’t eat anything seasoned more than black pepper.
Grocery stores near me have turkeys for sale all year. I think it’s because people buy their one yearly bird at random times and keep them in the freezer all year until Thanksgiving. Nobody is buying them to eat more than the one time they have to fake liking it every year because the woke mind virus said to.
We did one a few years ago with her parent’s air fryer. We just bought the newer model. Gonna make it a thing going forward for doing whole turkeys and chickens for meal prep for our lunches
Turkey is a lot of effort when the good folks at honey baked Ham make a damn fine turkey. So I buy a turkey breast from them and make pot roast #lifehack
Absolutely loved deep fried turkey growing up. Don’t have the driveway space now so not lucky enough to do that anymore, but a roasted turkey dry brined overnight and injected with butter, garlic, and lemon is delicious enough. For some reason people think that because you have to doctor up turkey, turkey sucks. No, that’s just called cooking. Some things need more, some need less.
We go through so much Turkey now. Our kid loves Turkey and peanut butter sandwiches. No clue where he picked that combo up but he will eat 4 of the damn things.
Skipping Thanksgiving dinner entirely this year. Wife in and out of hospital 3 times in last 4 weeks, and just don't have the bandwidth to get it done. Told the kids / gkids to still come for a visit, but fuck it, I'll get pizza.
Friend told me this works really well to fry medium-sized turkeys and you can use it inside. https://a.co/d/8IwsjKX
I offered to make a brisket and turkey this year but my wife said she didn’t need me sitting outside for 36 hours watching basketball and drinking beer while I was “busy cooking.”
OP should post a picture of his thanksgiving day turkey. Needs to include a little sign or something so we know it’s legit