Step 1, Dispatch the bird.

Eeek! Ok, I fully admit that if I had to dispatch my own bird, my family would be enjoying an all vegetarian repast on Thursday.

Well you could assign that to a rocket scientist mid-west hunter type if you perhaps know one. ;)

Personally I think removing the feathers might be the worst job. Time consuming at least.

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Personally I think removing the feathers might be the worst job. Time consuming at least.

Absolutely. From personal experience many years ago with chickens. Turkeys could only be worse.

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I didn't mind the plucking, but the smell of wet feathers is what always got to me.

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I'm makin Everything from scratch Except for the Rolls.
I shot the Turkey and use My own Home-made poultry Seasoning..
Will post some recipes a little later...I Iz Buizy. ;-]

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i can see people here know that getting the meat yourself is best.I started with hens at five years with grandad he always siad food should be eat as soon as posible not stand round in factorys

A friend at work gave me this recipe for Salsa, and after the first batch where he indicated table spoons, I realized he meant tea spoons, it came out very good. With the table spoons, it tasted like hot, wet, salt and pepper.


CHEFMATE FOOD PROCESSOR
1/2 OF A BELL PEPPER
2 JALAPEÑO PEPPERS
1 YELLOW ONION
5 TO 6 CLOVES OF PEELED GARLIC
1 HOT GREEN PEPPER
1 TOMATO
2 Tea Spoons OF WHITE VINEGER
2 Tea Spoons OF GROUND BLACK PEPPER
2 Tea Spoons OF SALT
AND ADD AS MUCH KETCHUP AS YOU NEED TO MAKE IT AS RED AS YOU WOULD LIKE IT TO BE

Chop up the ingredients individually, and mix them in a bowl. More or less Jalapeno peppers can be added for individual tastes. If you are really brave, add a Habanero pepper.

Steve

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Mrs. Smith has got nothing on me! I am a baking machine!!! Two pumpkin pies, two dozen pecan tartlets, three types of cookies. I am on fire!!!!!

Mrs. Smith has got nothing on me! I am a baking machine!!! Two pumpkin pies, two dozen pecan tartlets, three types of cookies. I am on fire!!!!!

That and the coolest avatar there is. Angela, you make me look like the lazy cook I really am. I put the turkey in the oven, and settled back for beer time. 30 minutes before the turkey is done, we will throw on some canned veggies, biscuits, stuffing, and cranbery sauce, and call it a done deal. The big difference is that is's just Rose and me. We seldom get company, at any time. I think 3-4 visitors a year would be about right. That makes everything too easy.....

Happy Thanksgiving!

Steve

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Sigh... post-party depression. Clean up is sooooo not fun.

Washing dishes in between watching TIVO'ed episodes of Iron Chef America. Eric loves to tease me when I watch this show by saying, "Today's secret ingredient is... RACCOON!!!!"

Sigh... post-party depression. Clean up is sooooo not fun.

Washing dishes in between watching TIVO'ed episodes of Iron Chef America. Eric loves to tease me when I watch this show by saying, "Today's secret ingredient is... RACCOON!!!!"

Good thing Eric hasn't found this web site yet.

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Sigh... post-party depression. Clean up is sooooo not fun.

Washing dishes in between watching TIVO'ed episodes of Iron Chef America. Eric loves to tease me when I watch this show by saying, "Today's secret ingredient is... RACCOON!!!!"

Good thing Eric hasn't found this web site yet.

Hehe...HAR Har...LOL...Oops.

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Sigh... post-party depression. Clean up is sooooo not fun.

Washing dishes in between watching TIVO'ed episodes of Iron Chef America. Eric loves to tease me when I watch this show by saying, "Today's secret ingredient is... RACCOON!!!!"

Good thing Eric hasn't found this web site yet.

why did I expect this website to be married to it?

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Good thing Eric hasn't found this web site yet.

Bill, please! Halloween is over. Enough with the scary stuff!!!

Leftover Mashed Taters:

All right, out of gravy and just can not handle them?

Heat up the skillet, throw in some butter, and drop pancake sized (although about 3-4X as thick) droppings of Mashed potatoes in there. Season to taste.
Makes a great hashbrown substitute.

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Janice

Does anyone have a good bubbles n squeaks recipe?

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Janice

And a second request - Does anyone have a recipe for Christmas cookies that freeze or store well? I already have Spritz frozen and brandy balls ripening, but I'd like to do a third cookie that either improves with a couple weeks aging or that holds up well in the freezer.

Is your Spritz by chance the german Spritzgebaeck? We don't freeze it, but let it age in a tin in a cool place for about three weeks.

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And a second request - Does anyone have a recipe for Christmas cookies that freeze or store well? I already have Spritz frozen and brandy balls ripening, but I'd like to do a third cookie that either improves with a couple weeks aging or that holds up well in the freezer.

I will do some digging.. Pecan Dreams and Walnut squares come to mind. Might need to recoat the pecan dreams with powder sugar right before serving..

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Is your Spritz by chance the german Spritzgebaeck?

Not sure. It is a simple butter cookie recipe I got from my mother-in-law. The ingredients are butter (lots), sugar, egg yolks, flour and vanilla. You shoot the dough through a cookie press. They freeze very well and are a good do-ahead cookie.

You shoot the dough through a cookie press.

If you replace the "shoot" with the German equivalent "spritzen", you can easily see where "Spritzgebäck" got its name. :-)

(I'm not sure about the ingredients, but it sounds tasty ;-)

Gruß,
Gundolf