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This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for turk... - 11/15/2010 8:54:56 AM

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I want to cook and decorate with my family for Thanksgiving.
I got sugar pumpkins to put butter nut squash soup in, Then I got yellow mums to put in a real pumpkin I am going to use as a center piece, and I got some idea's for cooking more stuff for turkey day:) I want make bacon bit and cheese pin wheels, Might even make bbq biscuits , they're little bits of dough, and inside you put hamburger meat, and it's seasoned with brown sugar and ketchup, and then you fold over, an put cheese on it, and maybe I might make chicken ham and cheese pockets, and maybe MAYBE red potato's with green beans and a rose mary butter sauce. The potato's an d green beans thing is a steam fresh meal pouch being sold, but I think I'll make it from scratch.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 9:10:08 AM

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Cool- we will be over in 20 mins.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 9:55:13 AM

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You forgot the turkey...

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 10:28:18 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.

Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 10:41:41 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.

Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

hell yeah!

I will drop in for dinner. You might be the better cook.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 10:47:04 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.

Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

Agreed.

I tend to do either a chicken and a duck for small groups, or a turkey and a goose for large ones.

The variety is well worth the extra expense.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 10:51:23 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.
Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

hell yeah!
I will drop in for dinner. You might be the better cook.

Yes I do a mean spaghetti on toast, sometimes alphabeti spaghetti (depending on what tin I pick up by mistake).

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 10:53:46 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.

Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

Agreed.

I tend to do either a chicken and a duck for small groups, or a turkey and a goose for large ones.

The variety is well worth the extra expense.

I concur turkey is definitely for large groups because its the bigger bird of the two.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 10:55:25 AM

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cheese pin wheels ... an put cheese on it ... and cheese pockets

The American obsession with bunging cheese on everything has always fascinated me.

I mean to say, why? It's not like your diets lack either fat or protein, and cheese (the majority of the time) ruins other flavours (unless it's some decent, unpasteurised cheese on its own, served with port at the end of a meal of course), so where did the habit come from? I'm guessing Dutch or German traditions, a couple of centuries ago?

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 11:02:07 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.

Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

Agreed.

I tend to do either a chicken and a duck for small groups, or a turkey and a goose for large ones.

The variety is well worth the extra expense.

I concur turkey is definitely for large groups because its the bigger bird of the two.

One of the nice things about the turning away from "standard", "white" turkeys that's occurred in the UK the last few years is the fact one can now get decent, free range & organic black turkeys. These used to be the turkey of choice, back before WWII, but supermarket buyers (back when supermarkets first really got going) decided the black “specks” of feather root you get with black turkeys wasn’t visually pleasing, and that people wanted a pure, white skin & flesh. The thing is, black turkeys taste lovely (imagine chicken, but more so), whereas white turkeys tend to taste of ... well nothing, actually.

But the black turkey is making a comeback. They’re not cheap, but they are delicious. And if it helps knacker the world domination plans of that sister-shagging, turkey-fucking in-bred Bernard Mathews then so much the better.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 11:13:30 AM

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Personally I always find turkey to be a bit dry, I much prefer chicken.
Chicken is the tasty turkey alternative.

hell yeah!
I will drop in for dinner. You might be the better cook.

Yes I do a mean spaghetti on toast, sometimes alphabeti spaghetti (depending on what tin I pick up by mistake).

Big smiles. :-)

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 3:10:15 PM

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TFB:

This is the centerpiece I used last year and I think I am going to do it again. It's simple and looks really elegant on the table.

Scroll down to Pumpkin and Fresh Flower Candle holder. It has a pic and instructions. Simple, easy and inexpensive.

http://www.recipetips.com/kitchen-tips/t--145/elegant-holiday-centerpieces.asp

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 3:25:11 PM

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TFB:

This is the centerpiece I used last year and I think I am going to do it again. It's simple and looks really elegant on the table.

Scroll down to Pumpkin and Fresh Flower Candle holder. It has a pic and instructions. Simple, easy and inexpensive.

http://www.recipetips.com/kitchen-tips/t--145/elegant-holiday-centerpieces.asp

Oh I like that. Very understated, compared to some of the rather OTT things I've seen before.

We don't do Thanksgiving in the UK. Which is a shame I reckon ... it's a more family, and less religious, feast than, say, Christmas (not that Christmas has much to do with religion anymore, at least, nothing past Mammon).

A friend of mine and his wife celebrate it though - they holidayed in the States a few years back, and every year since they've gathered family together at around that time. Sounds like a good idea to me. To count one's blessings, and break bread together ... yes, that's a good idea in my opinion.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 5:48:03 PM

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Arpig my dad does the turkey:)

I personally find the turkey dry bland and tasteless, so I'd prefer to have corn beef, but no we have to have the turkey, so I'll just drown it in ranch or something lol.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 6:01:46 PM

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mbmn Yeah, that's nice, it's similar to what I am doing, only no candle and I am using a potted plant of yellow mums, I thought about purple, but frankly the purple mums looked all straggly and I think yellow and orange would be more striking.

I am going to put the pumpkin soup "bowls" on the plates in the middle of them like you would see at fancy dinner table settings, and my mom bought Autum themed cloth napkins and thet able should look really nice:)

My one concern is would the pumpkin soup "bowls" flavor the butter nut squash? If they do it'd probably be just only a little bit, or I could see if a small dish or what ever would fit in there so it wouldn't flavor the soup.

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TFB:

This is the centerpiece I used last year and I think I am going to do it again. It's simple and looks really elegant on the table.

Scroll down to Pumpkin and Fresh Flower Candle holder. It has a pic and instructions. Simple, easy and inexpensive.

http://www.recipetips.com/kitchen-tips/t--145/elegant-holiday-centerpieces.asp

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 6:09:21 PM

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You GOTTA have the turkey! The bird cooks so long that you get to chat while it gets done.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 6:12:34 PM

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Steven my dad gets a jump start on it the night before thanksgiving, He cooks it over night, and then it's already done by time dinner guests arrive. I'm not to big on chatting with the people that come to dinner anyway hehe, I hardly know them and it's aqward, but I wouldn't mind talking with his mom, It's the first year we have invited her over, other years, she's gone to her other sons house:)

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You GOTTA have the turkey! The bird cooks so long that you get to chat while it gets done.

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 6:19:16 PM

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Arpig my dad does the turkey:)

I personally find the turkey dry bland and tasteless, so I'd prefer to have corn beef, but no we have to have the turkey, so I'll just drown it in ranch or something lol.

Get him to try Jamie Oliver's flavoured butters idea (although he's not the inventor, but he popularised the idea again the last few years) - it really works.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/the-best-turkey-in-the-world

Flavour the butter with herbs (getting fresh sage makes all the difference), then, starting at the head end, gently separate the skin from the flesh and work a wooden spoon (or your fingers) up the bird until there's a large "pocket" on each side of the bird you can then stuff with flavoured butter, with a few whole sage leaves pressed up against the skin so they show through when it's done an look a bit like a stained glass window effect. Jamie also carves differently, and it works a treat too, removing each breast side as one lump fillet and then carving down through it - that way, you don't get all outside, drier meat, given to one person you get a slice through the breast.

His forcemeat stuffing is also excellent (dried cranberries and/or apricots are a great addition) although, as he does, don't cook much of the stuffing in the bird itself, because it stuffs up (heh) the roasting process, but instead cook a little in the bird but most in dishes in the oven. Much better - crispy topping!

If you "do" Torrents, find Jamie's Christmas (the single programme not the Jamie's Family Christmas series, although that was pretty good too) and plan things out - being a control freak (there's a shocker), I started at the "end point" and planned my Christmas dinner timings like I would a project, making a plan I had taped to the fridge, letting me know pretty much minute by minute what I (and others - always rope other people in) had to be working on. Also, taking a tip from Jamie, I did as much of the pre-prep (stuffing, nibbles, dessert, etc) in the day or 2 before.

The result was the most relaxing Christmas meal I've ever produced ... and jolly delicious it was too (that was other people’s opinions, not just mine BTW).

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 6:22:32 PM

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Get him to try Jamie Oliver's flavoured butters idea (although he's not the inventor, but he popularised the idea again the last few years) - it really works.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/the-best-turkey-in-the-world

Here's the flavoured butter recipe:

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/other-recipes/christmas-butter

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RE: This year I am going to cook a bit an decorate for ... - 11/15/2010 7:28:56 PM

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Cook the turkey in an oven bag. They still get the brown crispy skin but stay nice and moist.

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