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How do you cook your Turkey?

post #1 of 16
11/23/03 at 4:09pm
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Do you fry it? Season it a special way? Please share!
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post #2 of 16
11/23/03 at 4:30pm
We fry ours in peanut oil! My dad injects the turkey with cajun seasoning or garlic butter before frying.
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post #3 of 16
11/23/03 at 4:48pm
We usually get a marinated turkey breast from Costco and cook in the crock pot. It is always delicioius. But we gave up the Costco card for Sam's and I haven't seen them there. So I just bought a turkey breast this year. My mom says grandma used to cook in the plastic bag, add a little flour and seasoning and it always comes out juicy. Going that route this year...
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post #4 of 16
11/23/03 at 4:52pm
The regular old way, in the oven with seasonings and currant jelly....

According to Billy, next year when it's just our immediate family, we're frying it!
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post #5 of 16
11/24/03 at 9:38am
I want to fry one but don't think that I have the money this week for the equiptment.
So far I have only baked turkey and they have always come out really jucy because I cook him breast side down until the last hour or so in the oven. He's always an ugly little bugger but he tastes good!
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post #6 of 16
11/24/03 at 12:14pm
Heather, you can come to my house for fried turkey!
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post #7 of 16
11/24/03 at 1:20pm
I looooooove fried turkey. You don't find too many people up here that do it that way, though.

Actually, I have never cooked a turkey on my own. But my mom, grandmas, and MIL all bake them in the oven in a roasting pan.
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post #8 of 16
11/24/03 at 1:39pm
I always cook mine in a bag with butter and Mrs. Dash Garlic and Herb. It usually turns out pretty good. And its' easy. The hard part is getting it to thaw in the first place.
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post #9 of 16
11/24/03 at 2:17pm
Rub it down with butter. Stick it in an oven bag..stick that in a foil pan and cook it for a few hours. Court gripes that I do not baste it or do anything special...heck he should be glad I am cooking!
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post #10 of 16
11/24/03 at 2:52pm
I use the Renyolds Turkey bags, put some flour (gluten free of course) in it, with some veggies and throw it in the oven and it cooks and bastes itself nice and juicy! YUM!
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post #11 of 16
11/24/03 at 3:10pm
I roast my turkey.
I wash it, dry it, take out the giblet and neck. (I only use the neck to make turkey stock for gravy amd later the drippings).
The I rub it with seasonings and butter and place onion and celery inside the cavity of the turkey. I don't cook stuffing in it.

I bast it first hour with melted butter until it has drippings that I can use to bast with later on.

I use my Great Aunt Lucy's roasting pan that has been in the family for years. It is an old fashion roasting pan with lid that she past down to me years ago before she passed away last year.

I feel honored that she left it to me and I have been using it for over 10 years for every Thanksgiving!
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post #12 of 16
11/24/03 at 3:18pm
I buy it from Honeybaked ham.
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post #13 of 16
11/24/03 at 3:20pm
Turkey!!

My FIL has deep fried a turkey for Christmas dinner each year for the last 3-4 years... YUMMY!!! The last 2 Thanksgiving meals have been here & I've just baked the turkey breast in the oven -- rubbed down with butter & spices. Last year I bought a turkey breast & roasted it my small Nesco cooker. It turned out BEAUTIFUL! I made gravy from the drippings. Grandma loved it so it must have been good!

This year I'm doing a citrus roasted pork loin (WW recipe), potatoes of some sort, mixed veggies, maybe rolls/bread of some sort and PIE for dessert! (Gotta have YUMMY dessert!!)
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post #14 of 16
11/24/03 at 3:25pm
I make an herb butter, usually just sage and butter, then separate the skin from the breast meat, then I'll place the butter under the skin. And, I always bake breast-side down, for extra juciness!
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post #15 of 16
11/25/03 at 8:06pm
First, I prep the roasting pan by rubbing it with butter, and putting a few pats of butter in the bottom. Second, I poke some holes in the breasts and legs, and stick in whole cloves of garlic, then rub it all over with herbs (usually Italian seasoning, but whatever's handy). Third, I stuff it with stuffing (last time I used cornbread stuffing mix, with chicken broth, onion, craisins and walnuts mixed in ). Then the wings get wrapped in foil til the last 30 minutes. I baste him every 30 minutes starting at about 4.5 hours (total cooking time is 6.5 hours for a big bird).

Once he's done, I draw out 2 cups of drippings, and let the fat rise so I can get it off, and make the gravy using 2 packets of brown gravy mix and the drippings (in place of the water). Then I blend in the heart and liver, too -- makes the gravy richer.

Now I'm hungry...
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post #16 of 16
11/25/03 at 8:52pm
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Wow, lots of good ways to cook Turkey!
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