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For the actual cooking process, I'm going old school. I was camping around Thanksgiving in 2006, and there was a pile of bricks nearby. So, I built up a small cooking pit, stuck a peice of bamboo through the turkey, with charcoal at the bottom, covered the open areas with aluminum foil, and let er rip! I turned it a quarter turn every 45 minutes or so. It was the best damn turkey I've EVER made. This year, I'm doing it that way again, except, I'm brining the turkey until tomorrow morning when I start the turkey.

In 2006, I had a TV with rabbit ears hooked up to a power source at the campsite, and had the TV on top of my van and a cooler full of beer, and got to witness the Phins whip up on the Lions.

So, how are you cooking your turkey?

Smoke'n that bad boy.... ;D

My wife's family will have a main roasted turkey and a 2nd one that they fry.
My family will have a main roasted one and a 2nd one that they smoke.

I'm doing the same thing that Dave's wife is doing.  One turkey will be roasted and the other will be fried. 

I'm not doing squat.  I fractured a finger last Monday & had surgery on Thursday.  My left hand is in a cast.

Mom is gonna stick it in the oven.  I think the setting is broil. 

^^^

That will burn the top of the turkey.

We are having a smoked turkey this year....yummy!!!!

It has tin foil on the top of it until the last 30 mins or so.  Then it gets flipped so the bottom with get brown too. 

2 day brine, herb rub, citrus stuffed and in the oven for 5.5 hours.

I decide to stand out with the smoker,High tomorrow around 30 with freezing rain,and drizzle,possible some snow.... :'(

^ Good luck with that! Yikes!

I have a live turkey in my fenced back yard, and when it's time to eat tomorrow, I'm going to chase it down and eat it raw, feathers and all.  By doing so, I will absorb the mighty bird's life energy and achieve Thanksgiving enlightenment.

My parents will be doing that.  My job is to eat and to play with the kids to give the adults a break. 

I ran 7.5 miles on the treadmill today in preparation for the big meal tommorow.   

whatever Disney is making us

Oven roasted with all the trimmings, of course!  Made the apple pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, cranberry dressing, brined the turkey, started the dressing.

Tomorrow I roast the bird, make the giblets gravy, the dressing (stuffing), sweet potato casserole, and the rolls.

Mom in law is making green bean casserole

I liked it better when a ll I did was show up and eat, but then again, i do enjoy cooking.

Happy turkey day all!

Stroke, I have a Rocky chasing the chicken vision in my head.... "You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!" I want youtube video... ;)



Thanks I'm looking on the bright side, smoking the Turkey, I can run in the house,and check the bird every few minutes,I feel bad for the people out frying their turkeys...a little sleet,and freezing rain in the hot oil!  :o

** Hijack Sorry Frimp*** It's in the 60's with Tornado warnings around us,and it's a very strange feeling watching Storm chaser's on the discovery channel knowing that...Even more strange washing my Winter Carhartt jacket,and winter gloves for tomorrow...**end hijack***

At least I can bust out the Phins parka.

We're deepfrying that bitch using the poor man's king cooker ( Half a metal trashcan, a sterno/propane tank a stick in thermometer and a shitload of oil).  I'm handling the deepfrying, the Mrs. is in charge (or rather her family has to bring) the fixings because we'll be moving soon and I don't have time for all that other shit.

they actually did a good job 2 years ago when i had to work on thanksgiving.  quality thanksgiving meal all around, as much as you can eat!  very nice!!

Ours wasn't that good, but most of the other stuff that people brought in was good.