What's in your oven/ stove/ bbq?

Sounds kinda like a Capital One commercial, but really now that the holidays are upon us and we are all cooking more...

Whatcha cookin'?

Today is my Grandma's 80th birthday, so we have lots of family heading our way and I volunteered to bring the prime rib.

Here's two 17 pounders ready for the table! (yes my oven is greebly - the roasts spattered all over the inside, so I will be cleaning tomorrow)

Show me your holiday meal(s), and I'll show you mine!!

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Pete just slipped 3 wheat free apple pies into the oven. :yum:

My Turkey Day Menu:
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Shahi Korma
Chicken Vindaloo
Vegetable Samosas
Whole green lentils with spinach and ginger
Papadam
Homemade Nan in several flavors

2x Pecan Pie
2x Pumpkin Pie
Bread Pudding from homemade bread

I convinced everyone in my family to toss out the turkey this year and do something a little less bland. We kept the traditional deserts because we've never had an Indian dessert that didn't suck.

I'll try and remember to take pictures of the food tomorrow. The pies have already been violated and they are fan-f'n-tastic.

Grant - Nan bread? I guess I spell it Naan bread myself, which is probably wrong. I loooove it!!!

Can we come to your house & have dinner?

The Acme has cooked my turkey this year.

I decided to be responsible for the wine. Since work has been busy I did not stomp my own grapes. I just braved the Hell that is a State Store on the Day Before a Holiday. This is a much more arduous process than just making the wine.

I bought Smoking Loon Merlot, and some of that fruity flavor Arbor Mist stuff ... the Island Fruits, for no other reason than I kind of remembered I liked it on an earlier trial.

Because this is the official kick off of the Yule Season, I grabbed a bottle of Penn Dutch Egg Nog (alright, it was an impulse purchase. I was in line at the cash register and thought, "oh yeah, damn, I need some of that too!!")

I rounded out my impulse purchases with a miniature Holy Hand Grenade™.

Fair warning, I may post in the Posting While Intoxicated thread tomorrrow.

I think this is the first time in about the last 9 years that I have not worked on Thanksgiving Day. Hospital policy is that I have to stop drinking one shift before my next shift, so I will have until 0800 Friday.

seakdivers wrote:

Grant - Nan bread? I guess I spell it Naan bread myself, which is probably wrong. I loooove it!!!

Can we come to your house & have dinner?

I see many different spellings for a lot of Indian dishes (at restaurants run by Indian natives). Nan/Naan is one of those as is Vindalo/Vindaloo. It's probably the way they transliterate Hindi words into something that Anglo-phones can pronounce.

Anyone's welcome!

Directions from Alaska:
East until you hit Montreal
South until you hit civilization

18 lb Butterball turkey... should be ready about 3:30 PM! :yum:

Toad-in-the-hole ... but it's not a holiday here ...

Grant - civilization? Hmph... fine.

We had our prime ribs last night - they were awesome! Frankly though, I couldn't keep my hands off of the 50 lbs of fresh king crab my parents got.

I'll post pics of today's rotisserie ham that will be going on the grill in about 4 hours or so.

22 pound turkey cooking at Mommy Dearests. With: bread stuffing, mashed tato's, sweet taters (see how you have to say them different?) the ever-traditional green bean casserole, corn casserole, crescent rolls, cranberry stuff, chocolate-chip pecan pie, chocolate cream pie X 2 (lots of kiddies), mince-meat, pumpkin and man, I'm full!

Starving. Don't eat till four.

seakdivers wrote:

Grant - civilization? Hmph... fine.

I was referring to Canada. There's not much except forests and survivalists between Albany and Montreal unless you count Plattsburg.

T-3 hours until foooooood. Had pie for breakfast...yummah.

jinx is making seafood stew with sea bass, tuna, salmon, shrimp, scallops, mussels, and other non meatbased items. ...in a very zesty tomato base with OJ and wine served with a wedge of orange as a finish. goddamn, goddamn. I made a tomato/motz/basil platter. taking them to my mom's later for the big feast.

I plan to have a tea-smoked duck, cornbread dressing, and maybe a spinach Quiche this Saturday. I live alone and my kids were working today and all week end. Weather might move the duck back into the oven. Rain in the guess ta mate.

The 15 year old has made a box cake and homemade cream cheese icing, and he's doing mashed potatoes (real ones, peeling the spuds himself and everything). I've made a green bean casserole and a loaf of bread machine Hawaiian bread, and we're putting a pork tenderloin on the grille in about an hour. Probably have another veggie on the side, plus a simple relish tray. tomorrow, we head down to the inlaws' for the real deal, but tonight, its just our fivesome and a relatively simple repast.

Mmmmmm Hawaiian bread. Sliced up, buttered, and put under the broiler.

I'm drooling..... but it's probably because we are about 20 minutes away from leaving for dinner.

I believe I have eaten enough to be violently ill. I would certainly engage in a technicolor yawn if I attempted to eat the cheesecake I had so been waiting to enjoy. I. Just. Can't. Do. It.

I intend to continue my alcohol consumption so that at least I won't care.

The bottle of Smoking Loon is gone. Holy Hand Grenade Here I come.

Deep fried turkey. Once you try you'll always fry.
18 lb'er.... 1 hr 15 mins. Reserve plate for next meal. Licking is acceptable.
Cornbread stuffing. With celery and sage.

OOooh I love deep fried turkeys!!

So happy Thanksgiving Cellar Dwellars!!

Throughout the course of this evening I have been thankful for pretty much anything I could think of, but right now I am so thankful that I am too drunk to post any pictures, or give more commentary than need be.

this is a beer can turkey Zippyt and MRS. Zippyt style ,
First thaw the bird, then inject Cajon butter maranade ,
in the opened beer can is Turbo dog and various herbs from the herb garden ,
Then , well the pics speak for them self's ,
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This the BEST turkey WE have ever made , Moist and VERRRRRRY TASTY !!!!! :D

Where'd you get the pink buckets?

My wife picked them up at ElWal-Marto to grow flowers in .

The drunk,tea smoked duck is HERE

Damn Buster that looks KILLER !!!!!

What kind of smokeing liquid , and what herbs did you put in it ??

Also how did you tea smoke it ????

We had a turducken. Not the whole nine yards version but just the breasts (about 8 lbs. total) and finally stuffed with Andouille sausage.

barefoot serpent wrote:

We had a turducken. Not the whole nine yards version but just the breasts (about 8 lbs. total) and finally stuffed with Andouille sausage.

And you're still here to talk about it? Good job!

I'm still trippin' on the tryptophan

I am going to stop eating a stick of butter a day. There. That's my resolution.

Currently in my oven: nothing. What can one fix with hamburger, rice? Am finally living life of octogenarian in my fortygenarian years. I've accomplished what I set out to do. I can die happy.

Brianna wrote:

I am going to stop eating a stick of butter a day. There. That's my resolution.

good idea.

Brianna wrote:

Currently in my oven: nothing. What can one fix with
hamburger, rice? --snip--

Porcupine Meatballs. You'll need some spices and some tomato sauce, but they're good. Try 'em!

Thanks, BigV :love: :)

Porcupine meatballs are a favorite in my house. The kids love 'em.

I had almost forgotten about these little delights....

pssst... they're great with onion gravy too. :yum:

BigV you win the "what's for dinner" prize today. I'm going to try this tonight.

hamburger + ketchup + spices (with optional vegetables) = sloppy joes

over rice.

Last nite I had a fist sized hunk of roast , a handfull of mushrooms , sliced up part of an onion , combine these , nuke them and mix with a pack of spicey beef ramen .
oh and a cold beer or 2 or more !!!

Well, it was a couple of days later than planned, but we finally had porcupine meatballs tonight. They were a hit with the family and with the kids my daughter is baby-sitting.

Thanks V.

We went snorkeling today and collected some abalone. I made them for dinner, and ooooh I am in heaven now.

Toasted pecans and almond bark! Yumm

If I had any time off, I'd be coming to your house for Christmas, buster. I'd bring stuff too, but man, you know how to do it right, even if you have a tarp on the roof.