TYQ thinks I'm a Dinosaur.........
I insist on a butter soaked cheese cloth draped over the turkey as it's cookin, to brown the bird........
I baste the cheese cloth in butter as it's cookin............
Am I really out of the dark ages?...........
I need some input from you Pards...........
Some people are happy with a package of Rice A Roni, Zatarans Dirty Rice or a pre basted Butterball with Stove top Stuffing and Hungryman dehydrated Potatos and margerine.
Others may like a sack of rice, a sack of potatoes, butter, a loaf of bread, vegetables and a slew of individual spices and a turkey right off the chopping block or freshly blasted with a scattergun and roasted in a wood fired oven.
I would rather be in the dark ages than eating Rice A Roni!
Since it's going to be our two kids and their sweetys this thankgiving..........
I'm doing a ham, and TYQ is doing a Turkey......
I love sending them home with lots of leftovers....
And yes, As Gods my witness........I'm sticking cloves in that ham..... ;D
I'm even gonna do the cross cuts on the outside, so's the kids kin have the little squares of roasted Pork Fat to pick off as they wish
Yup, I'm a Dinosaur...........
Wouldn't change for money..............
I'm going to do a Squash Casserole.......Fresh Green Beans, steamed......Sweet Potatoes, mashed......Garden Salad, with fresh Bleu Cheese Dressing..........Mashed Taters and Gravey, Turkey Gravey........Trail Mix, (They both grew up on Trail Mix as their snack)......Walnuts, Pastacios, and Cashews............
My son say's to me, "Dad, I'll bring the wine"..........
This will tell me lots about how he has matured........He's 42...........
My Daughter, the Artist is bringing her appetite and her Sweety, and that's fine....... ;D
It will be great to see both my kids at the same time, back home............
Thank God for Hollidays ........................
I ain't tellin a soul till the end, I'm making a "Schvarts Velt Kiers Tort" for dessert..............
Black Forrest Chocolate Cake Pards...........Primo Killer Chocolate Cake..............
I love the Holliday Season............
I feel blessed that I get to see both my adult children at the same time.......................
This was the featured guest at last night's pre-Thanksgiving Dinner!
Nice bird Russ!
ho wee, makes me want just a bite or two and some stuffing and potato's and gravy and pie and :o oh well I guess I can wait. ;D
Great looking bird, Russ T.
Slim
That does indeed look tastey....... ;D
Good Job Pard, you gets an "AttaBoy"...................
I will boil a couple of cups of water with some molassas, paparika, garlic, tyme, sage, dill weed and just a touch of cinnamon and ginger. This will be cooled and added to a salt water brine (along with a couple of shots of bourben for good measure ;)) and the bird soaked in it for a day then the bird will be smoked for a day.
Had some real strong wind a couple of months ago and blew a couple of big limbs off the pecan tree and we have a brick smoker in the back yard.
Pecan smoked Turkey, that's going to be well worth the work.......
Enjoy Pard........
TQ won't let me within 5 feet of the turkey, that's her domain.......
I'll do a ham on my "Q".......Real low, real slow..........
I like the front shoulder smoked without being cured. Great taste!!
Well, made it back from Oregon without a problem with United Airlines. It was a great weekend, with rain only on Thursday, when we were all inside stuffin' ourselves anyway.
By the way, this is what the second bird in 5 days looked like. This one was Nesco'ed.
That one looks fine to me, plenty for everyone.
Yup Pard, that's a dandy lookin bird, ya done good...................
Couple days later......couple slices of Rye, some Mayo, Cayenne sprinkles............a slice of breast.......
Your good to go there Pard..........
Don't get no better............
OK, what's Nescoed??
Cooked in one of those electric roaster pans.
Kinda' like this!
(http://z.about.com/d/homecooking/1/G/l/J/nescoroaster.jpg)
Thanks Pards.........
In these parts we call them slow cookers.........
TYQ will stick a pot roast, taters, carrots, onions, etc in it in the morn......
By the time were both home from work, supper is ready..........
So Nesco is the Brand, the manufacturer in your neck of the woods.........
I gots it straight now.............. ;D
Yup, slow cookers is essential to modern life.........
I was born and raised for the first 21 years of my life in Wisconsin, so I think it has more to do with what you had in the house. ??? ??? We had a Nesco slow cooker, and my Dad had a Skil circular saw and a Sabre jig saw. :) After that ever circular saw was called a Skil saw, every jig saw was a Sabre saw. I guess that went for Cresent wrenches too. ::) ;D
I inherited one of those vintage Nesco roasters and I'm gonna experiment with some meats to start with. I wanna work my way up to a Turkey.
Gimme a crock pot slow cooker an whatever is in the fridge/canned food cupboard an somethin goods gonna happen. Best strogenoff, best chilli, best Irish stew, best pulled pork, anythin that comes outta one of them is hard ta beat. Pork chops smothered in kraut with taters...ya could cut em with a plastic fork. Go big an get the 6 quart. It is one fine invention.
Leo
Been seeing a lot of cake recipes for slowcookers, lately. I suppose if you can bake a cake in one, a turkey would work as well. Gonna have to try it one day. Right now, I cut up a 12 pounder, sprinkle with Hawaiian sea salt and splash half a bottleof liquid smoke all over and let it go on low till the meat easily shreds. Voile! Kalua turkey that's darned close to the real imu cooked stuff. Works with a pork butt too. :)
If I ain't lazy, I'll go over to the neighbors and get me some banana and ti leaves to line a large roasting pan with and cook the meat in the oven. Results are even better with the leaves. Hmm. Gonna have to get a larger crockpot and try lining the pot with the leaves and cook the meat that way. I'm sure it'll turn out great. :) And to think I passed up several Nescos I'd seen at garage sales. :-[
SB, cake recipies.......Why the heck not?
Pineapple Upside Down Cake, might be a good place to start....
I don't see why lining the cooker with leaves, or whatever you wish, wouldn't work out fine with roast meat, fish, or fowl.
There will be other garage sales........
LT, Amen..........
BroTL
When TYQ does do a pot roast in the cooker, I've seen her toss in about 3 cups of what's left of the morning coffee, along with more water. Gots to keep the cooking wet, to be left alone all day....
Slow Cookers, Nesco's, Crock Pots.......Whatever ya'll call it.
They all good to go........... ;D
And thinking about these cookers..........and thinking way back........
I do indeed remember my Mom doing Pork Shoulder, then making BBQ Pork Samitches.........
Her sweet, stringy, melt in your mouth pork, smothered in sauce was the best.....
I have them sammiches fer ma birthday every year. :D
No need fer extra liquid with the pork (bone in) but some folks around here have suggested pouring in a can of root beer. Haven't tryied it yet I'm kinda fond of the way they turn out the way we been doin it. Up ta the individual if they want ta dump any of the juice before addin the sauce the last hour. I usualy leave it in an grab extra napkins.
Leo
CK,
Here is a trick with the bird that my Ma found one evening when Pa told her that they needed something for a pot-luck at the school (one teacher&one sub) the next day.
She wrapped a frozen bird in foil and set the oven at about 325 and put it in at bed time. Come morning, she took it out of the oven and the meat just about fell off of the bone and was some of the moistest meat that we have ever had. We have been doing turkeys this way ever since ;D
Modoc........Your Mom may have begun the best,
Low and slow cookin procedure ever.................
I'll just bet that that bird was primo.............
That "Nesco Cooker" looks a lot like the Sunbeam Roaster Oven that my mom had; that sucker was big - she cooked six roasting chickens in it at once one time. It's a lot different from a crock pot, but similar in process; this thing has a porcelained metal inside pan. All of the turkeys I can remember from my "pup" days were cooked in that thing; it got taken to wherever we were having thanksgiving dinner. I wonder if it is still at the old home place; my brother owns the place, now, and I don't know if he kept it.
Nesco is just another brand name. I don't know what the correct name is, I call em electric roaster pans.
Anyone still usin an electric knife? They used ta be a staple in every home but I haven't seen anyone pull one out in ages. Seems like folks gave up on em.
Leo
Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 09, 2008, 10:35:11 AM
Anyone still usin an electric knife? They used ta be a staple in every home but I haven't seen anyone pull one out in ages. Seems like folks gave up on em.
Leo
I still use one (two different knives, I don't do Have Knife Will Travel! ::) ;D) on both Thanksgiving birds (here at home and in Oregon).
Quote from: El Peludo on December 08, 2008, 07:50:51 PM
That "Nesco Cooker" looks a lot like the Sunbeam Roaster Oven that my mom had; that sucker was big - she cooked six roasting chickens in it at once one time. It's a lot different from a crock pot, but similar in process; this thing has a porcelained metal inside pan. All of the turkeys I can remember from my "pup" days were cooked in that thing; it got taken to wherever we were having thanksgiving dinner. I wonder if it is still at the old home place; my brother owns the place, now, and I don't know if he kept it.
I remember ma Grandma having a Sunbeam Roaster, kept it on a rolling cart in the utility room, Thanksgiving and Christmas were the only times I remember her pulling it in the kitchen and using it. I don't know how old it was but it was in my first memories of Holidays.
OT, ya hit the nail right on the head.............
That's what my Mom had a Sunbeam................
Some dandy eats came outa that device..........Lawd Above...................
I equate that Sunbeam cooker and Pork samitches...there one and the same................
Good stuff Pards, very good stuff indeed..........
Back in the 50's, and early 60's, they were the deal..........
They freed up the real oven to do all the odd jobs, breads, pies and Veggies........
I remembering string beans with mushroom soup and Dried onion rings..............
That was a heck of a side dish.............
Sliced Taters with onions and butter...........Gadz..........
And all the pies............
Yup, our Mom's used the eletric cooker to free up the big oven for all the rest of the goodies...................
I think creamed corn was my favorite............................With the Pimentos...............
Quote from: Cary Kid on December 09, 2008, 07:07:42 PM
They freed up the real oven to do all the odd jobs, breads, pies and Veggies........
I remembering string beans with mushroom soup and Dried onion rings..............
That was a heck of a side dish....
Every year Kid, think we still have some in the fridge.
Leo
My mom's Sunbeam Roaster was kept on a rolling metal cart, too; she kept all of the stuff to use with it on the two lower shelves. As to just how old it was, my earliest memory of it is from about 1947 or '48. My folks both passed within a few months of one another in 2002, and that thing was still residing on that cart in the kitchen at their place. After we settled up the estate, my baby bro got the house, and I don't know what he did with it.
I hope your little brother is getting some miles out of your Mom's electric roaster....EP.........
I was in Wally World recently with TYQ. They have at least 10 different sizes and manufactures.......
That's still an item desired by Moms the nation over.............
TYQ's got two of them. A small one what will do up stew for her and I, and a large one.
I think I could get a Crok'r'Gator in the large one......A Pig or Deer easy...... ;D
Gator, wow!, ain't had that in a spell.....
I get a tickle out of eating critters what could eat me.........
It just feels just some how..............
Cubed, breaded, deep fried..........with lots of dippin sauces...A young Gator tail is the best.........Nice and tender.......
Bonus with the crock/gator, ya cut open the belly an might find a perfectly good duck in there...pre tenderized ta boot ;D ;D ;D
Leo