Poll: Holiday food

[Opusfxd]

I prefer smoked, I'd love to try brined and fried but I usually end up with my mom's roasted, overcooked version. She hasn't yet figured out to this day how to reverse engineer a cooking schedule or learned what hold time is. I'm trying.

Coy, come out for a herf and bring a fryer.

[livwire68]

Originally Posted by Opusfxd

I prefer smoked, I'd love to try brined and fried but I usually end up with my mom's roasted, overcooked version. She hasn't yet figured out to this day how to reverse engineer a cooking schedule or learned what hold time is. I'm trying.

Coy, come out for a herf and bring a fryer.

Its cold there now, you come here! Besides its Vegas (O' joy ) rode the bike home tonight little after mid-night with a long sleeve shirt and the sleeves pulled up. Perfect bbq weather, I will smoke some meat and fry a turkey!

[VirtualSmitty]

Fried! So very awesome.

[Sailchaser]

Nothing like a traditional with the stuffing inside and the fixens on the outside for me and the family

We usually do a brine turkey, but this year I am trying my hand at a smoked turkey.

[landhoney]

I brine and smoke. Last year was my first and the family has "requested" that it become a tradition. They actually have threatened my life if said turkey is not provided. We will continue to have a traditional oven baked turkey along side of mine.
My favorite turkey though is at my wife's family reunion. Its over a weekend and the whole family participates in making apple butter. Peeling 30 bushels of apples and slicing, cooking in 30 gallon copper kettle over open wood fire for 12-14 hours, and then jarring. Anyway, they cook 5 huge turkeys on a rotisserie over an open maple wood fire. The rotisserie is 6-7 feet long. The brine in just apple cider; then salt, pepper, lemon, and orange on the outside and inside cavity. In the words of Newan, "Its the wood that makes it good." I'll try to post a pic.

[Mr. Ed]

fried turkey sounds mmm mmm good.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by Opusfxd

I prefer smoked, I'd love to try brined and fried but I usually end up with my mom's roasted, overcooked version. She hasn't yet figured out to this day how to reverse engineer a cooking schedule or learned what hold time is. I'm trying.

Sounds like my mom. Have her brine, then roast it. Ought to help with maintaining some moisture.

We used to alternate frying & smoking each year, and everyone prefers the fried bird hands down.

That is, until we discovered Emeril's Turkey Bone Gumbo recipe. It's become my signature dish for the weekend after Thanksgiving, and is probably a bigger highlight than the main meal. Definitely a new family tradition. Fried/smoked turkey makes horrible stock, so it's now back to roasting that turkey every year.

I like the small Cornish Game Hens roasted with lots of rosemary.

Each person gets their own.

[Mikey202]

Also, if you put an apple or an onion, or both inside the turkey when you cook it, it makes it real moist. I always cook my stuffing by it's self. Plus I always use those cooking bags, too.

[jledou]

It will be a traditional with pretty much no flavoring at the parents this year. I will make a somewhat traditional one at home but it is heavily seasoned with a good rub and baked with about 2-4 oranges, halved and sitting in the pan around it.