I like a stuffed pork loin but I've never seen a stuffed ham...

Interesting.

It is. I had no idea. Very old recipe, one I love.

Everything is fresh, the Kale from her garden, etc. My wife's family can trace their arrival to the Ark and Dove, which landed in 1634.

The first Mass is celebrated by Father Andrew White on St. Clement’s Island, which I can see from my desk.

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That is beyond cool.

Y'all need to learn how to deep fry a turkey

I've had a turkey loaf before that was incredibly good. It was layers of white and dark meat rolled and covered in broth.

The ground loafs are not good at all.

I did not read through all the posts, be we had Turducken a few times, which is a turkey , stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken . I think the chicken was stuffed with spinach , and pine nuts, and spices . It was pretty tasty honestly .

Yugoslavia is better.

Growing up, my mom would wake us up (in the middle of the night it seemed like) on Thanksgiving morning to be witness to the Turkey going into the oven. We usually ended up in the living room having egg nog and those little powdery white cookie-like balls and deviled eggs if mom had already made some and black olives and walnuts cracked open with those pliers-like things.

Then back to bed, starving ourselves the rest of the day in anticipation of the feast to come.

When we finally sat down to eat like a buncha Vikings dad would say, every single year, he is confounded by how mom is able to prepare all this stuff for us and have all of it it be ready at the same time. Which, as I later deduced, was his way of giving thanks for his wife and our mother.

I remember one special year when mom fixed up TWO turkeys because we had literally a house-full of family at the makeshift table in the living room of the farm. Just like the bucket brigades of old we would pass the biscuits and smashed potatoes and stuffing and what not to our left. It was beautiful. Once we had our plates over-full, the time finally arrived for the whole point of it all.

We gave thanks for each other.

Then dug in like a pack of jackals.

I had it once and thought it was a crime against the culinary arts. I like all three birds (or any birds) separately but that combination managed to ruin all three.

Now we’re talking
That looks really good

Our guy at gun club who does all the cooking for our events did an amazing turkey dish.

It was big chunks turkey mixed with spinach and cheese and a few herbs thrown in. It was definably better than all those roast turkey dinners I had growing up. It was very soft and moist, which was a nice change for turkey.

Being 66 years old I have had turkey done many ways . To be honest deep fried in peanut oil hands down the best . The process is quick and the entire bird is moist . Done outside it frees up the kitchen for the " fixens " :D . Sadly my turkey frier took a dump I need to replace the regulator . So this year broiled . It will still be good .

Salmon today Prime rib on Sunday.
When available Dungeness cracked crab for Christmas.
I like turkey but not a fan of turkey left overs for a couple weeks.

I haven't fried a turkey in years. Mostly due to cost of peanut oil (it was always one and a third cartons) and cleanup. It makes more sense if the neighbors get together and fry a few, get that assembly line going.

We also used to cook them in a pit in Piru when I lived in Fillmore. 10-15 of us got together Wednesday night to get the fire going while we drank beers. Lowered the stuffed foil wrapped turkeys into the pit, covered with a metal plate and dirt, drank a toast and came back in the morning to pull them out.

Talk about "fall off the bone" moist turkey. It was something else.

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Sophie is lickin' her chops
. Another 30 minutes and chow time

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Time to chow!

We did lobster tail same as last year.

This is how I do lobster tails.


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^^^ That looks delicious Kramer!

It's a photo from a few years back. I just keep reusing it to make it look like I get out there and do it.

I have the lobster pots in the attic, I just need to get off my ass...