Vincent Price’s 1958 Thanksgiving Special (Saturday Night Live version) via a Hulu. Happy Thanksgiving.
I enjoy cooking. I’m no master chef, but I’m think I’m pretty good at the small list of things I can make. One of my favorite things to make is Thanksgiving dinner.
Assuming people aren’t just being nice, I’ve received good reviews on my turkeys. There’s no secret to how I make it, I follow Alton Brown’s recipe pretty much verbatim.
Thanksgiving isn’t thanksgiving without mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes are my favorite food. I’ve spent years trying to perfect the recipes and a few years ago I found something that allows me to cheat. The Steam’N Mash by Westinghouse
Finally, I have started making home made turkey gray in the last few years. My favorite so far is generically called Turkey Neck Gravy. There’s many variations of it, this website seems to have the basic recipe that I use. I only use the neck, the heart and gizzard go in the trash. Animal organs shouldn’t be eaten as far as I’m concerned. I also like to add mushroom, then again I like to add mushrooms to everything.
I won’t be making the main thanksgiving dinner this year. I will be making 15lbs turkey on Saturday.
The main dish, the bird, was made using the Alton Brown “Good Eats” method. It involves brining the turkey the night before. To prepare, I made a test turkey a few weeks before the big day. It was a small 10 pound turkey and the experiment proved that it was the way to go. The boys ate it like it was going out of style.
The next new thing was gravy. I had always wanted to make homemade gravy. Most recipes call for using the internal organs, but I find that to be gross. Considering that things like the liver are waste creation factories. I did however find a good one using the neck bone. Normally I would use the Alton Brown recipe but it seemed a bit complicated for the first try as it requires two recipes. I thought I had the “Gravy Confidential” episode on my Tivo, but looks like it mislabeled it. None the less, the results were delicious. Another hit.
I had wanted to make some mashed cauliflower but went with traditional mashed potatoes instead. Mashed cauliflower tastes almost like mashed potatoes but without the carbs and more fiber.
Nothing else real fancy besides that. We had stuffing, pumpkin pie, the normal stuff.
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