Pie me
Thursday, November 24, 2005
BEFORE
AFTER
One wax spill, a near gravy disaster, and 8 sticks of butter later, Thanksgiving is over before it feels like it even began. I worked 10 hours for 2 days to create our meal of Turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, maple sweet potatoes with candied pecans, green beans almondine, stuffing, orange cranberry sauce, dinner rolls with herbed butter, pecan, and pumpkin pie. (All homemade) The turkey was a little dry, due to my not wanting to poison my guests hence overcompensating and overcooking it, but it had really good flavor.
I've got the carcass simmering on the stove to make turkey soup tomorrow. (2C white wine, 20C water, bay leaves, pepper corns, 5 stalks celery, 8 sprigs thyme, parsley, 1 onion, 5 carrots, 5 cloves garlic, 1 turkey carcass - 4 hours simmering on the stove, strain.)
I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend! Much love to you and your families.
By AllBeehive Thursday, November 24, 2005
2 Comments:
Wow, your table looks great! And the final menu sounds wonderful too! My mom is staying in the room with my computer so I probably won't aftermath-thanksgiving post until Sunday...
But I'm so happy that you did a recap! Yeah, turkey can be tricky but if it tastes good you can always cover it with more gravy! (That's what I learned last year)
My mom has this yellowed page from an old cookbook which we followed 325 degrees for 4 hours (a 12 pound bird). Tented with foil for the first 2 hours, then remove foil and baste every half hour. Don't ask me how this worked (it was overdone according to the temp) but it was the best turkey ever. I am so confused. :)
Thanks! The table looked better without the tablecloth, but the table was a loner they came and set up on Wednesday afternoon at 4pm! It is nicer even than the table we are getting, so we covered it just in case we had damage.
I'm jealous of your moist turkey. I did 45 min, breast side down at 425, then 3 hours breast side up at 325. I foiled the last hour, but it was already really dark and probably already done. Darn dry air and altitude! Tomorrow I'm posting about the Turkey Barley soup I made YUMMY!
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