Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
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That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.
Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow's turkey meatball recipe, it's as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.
Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
One year, we tried to deep-fry a turkey. It must have been really humid outside, because the temperature of the oil got thrown off. It ended up being slow-cooked in oil - black on the outside and raw on the inside.
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