You Only Get Three Mains For Thanksgiving - Pick' em

[Easy 6]

Choose wisely...

[FlaChief58]

Turkey with cranberry sauce, mashed taters and gravy, green bean casserole for the mains, punkin pie with cool whip for dessert.

[ShortRoundChief]

I refuse to be limited to 3. I must have turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, deviled eggs and end it with some pumpkin pie. You know like the pilgrims.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I figured that was the end of that. So I asked my mom if she wanted to do something else because all the dumb****s that are too good for science (It's BLOOOOOOODY!!! ) just bitch incessantly. It was tough for me to listen to and I didn't drop the cash. But apparently she liked it because we're doing it, and apparenlty my nephew is doing a turkey for those that can't do actually food.

So yes. It counts.

Prime rib. Roasted Brussell Sprouts with some hate and fury. Home made dinner buns.

We aren't doing the sprouts or buns because it won't scale but it's the answer.

Sprouts scale up - just buy them pre-sliced. Otherwise you'll be doing that all day. But you can make a big ol' mess of those things. Remember to put them cut side UP so that the steam can escape as they cook - keeps 'em crisper on the outside.

As for the meat - cook it at higher heat. Low and slow gives you very little temperature gradient so you can have it at 132 degrees almost heel to heel. But if you cook it at a higher heat, the outside of the rost will be at 145 or so by the time the inside gets to that sweet spot. So then you can have some medium/well stuff AND some medium rare stuff.

I mean I won't do it because my family aren't a bunch of godless heathens that request medium beef. That's just horseshit. But it's how my mom always did it as a kid and we'd lose 1/3 of the roast to mediocrity.

(side note, I would also say that a ribeye roast is a prime rib. What's the distinction? A prime rib is just ribeyes that haven't been sliced yet; I guess maybe they de-boned it first?)

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by srvy

Wild Turkey is the cure for hatred of Turkey meat. You will never want a Butterball again.

It's a cure for a lot of things on Thanksgiving.

[Shiver Me Timbers]

I look at it as a 5 day feast
1-Tonight Smoking Whole Brisket 13 lbs after trimming and a point (for burnt ends) for consumption on Tuesday
2-Wednesday- Smoked Tri Tip Santa Maria style
3-Thursday smoked Turkey
Friday left overs
Saturday left overs
Sunday fast and call the Nutrisystem crisis hotline

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

...

So I've got some morons in my family that absolutely can't eat anything with pink, so I lopped the end off to give to a couple of them, and the others are all up there ****ing microwaving this ridiculously expensive piece of meat that is the pinnacle of my culinary skill. And to top it all off my sister is over there being the biggest **** imaginable, making puking noises and shit. Just being insufferable in the loudest possible way. All this incessant bitching because my mom spent ridiculous money to feed us all the best thing I've ever done.

I figured that was the end of that. So I asked my mom if she wanted to do something else because all the dumb****s that are too good for science (It's BLOOOOOOODY!!! ) just bitch incessantly. It was tough for me to listen to and I didn't drop the cash. But apparently she liked it because we're doing it, and apparenlty my nephew is doing a turkey for those that can't do actually food.

That's a sign that you should start doing the holidays on your own.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by srvy

Wild Turkey is the cure for hatred of Turkey meat. You will never want a Butterball again.

I had to read this twice. I was trying to get the joke about booze.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Understand.

But you don't serve Aus jus? Horseradish?

Nah. I ****ing hate horseradish. I should catch drippings and do jus, but I'm lazy and I just want to get the meat right. I'd have to eat a bullet if I ****ed the meat to get the accoutrements.