Oooh, I'll have to make these for Bek someday. She'll love these!

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Sun, my dream meal is always First Nations Day Dinner--y'all would recognize that as Thanksgiving--and of course I need to have Gryph with me. Other people are optional, lol... and since it is my dream meal, there WILL BE enough stuffing cooked in the bird to last until all the leftovers are gone.

............might have to give away a couple of extra cooked turkeys to get that much cooked-in-the-bird stuffing, lol.....

Hello hon! It's great to be back.

I am pleased to report that I can do the fresh corn tortillas, from scratch! I got myself some Masa Lista (Not sure, but think in Australia it's called something different to what you call it in the States), plus a tortilla press.

I find them a little bit challenging though, I guess I'm used to working with doughs that have some kind of gluten formation happening.

Well no wonder why you love this! Smoked Paprika! Perfect. I am going to make this.

If you all love Smoked Paprika as much as I do, or need to do mail order, or try it for the first time check out:

Im especially partial to Hungarian paprika....I find it nearly has a sweetness to it....I considered making the spice with it....but yes my employer gets smoked paprika in a big ol container since he uses so much of it....he said he gets his on amazon...dunno if it's comparably priced....

*looks all around the room, whistling a nervous lil whistly tune*

......I'm glad you weren't there the first time I tried to make tortillas....

Why what happened?

What did you use if not a squisher?

That is my favorite part as well. Well besides the part where someone else does the cooking and gives me a break..but anyway, I love love love stuffing that is cooked in the turkey. And there is never enough.

Thinking that I may have to cook some Turkey after all..even though I am not going anywhere for Thanksgiving and no one will be here.

Oh well, more for me.

How do you do your stuffing?

*hangs head... makin' me admit this public* Well... I made tortillas that were... wooden. Hard dry and tasteless, even. *sheepish look*

I used a rolling pin. I wanted to pat them out like the really accomplished tortilla makers do *yanno, says on the package, "hand-stretched, the old-fashioned way"* but I'm just not that coordinated so I rolled them out like pita bread or noodle dough. Got pretty good at it, but my wrists gave out last year so I had to stop.

Oh noes Catie. *shakes head*
Were they flour tortillas? Maybe you over-developed the gluten?

Speaking of stuffings, my favourite is one with macadamia nuts (slightly bashed), bacon, tomato, onion, and whatever herb I fancy at the time. Super good stuff! (I saute the bacon and onion first)

The totally old-fashioned way.

Start with two big (24 oz) loaves of bread, torn into pieces the day before and set out in the turkey roaster to dry, cuz nuthin else is big enough to hold all that bread.

In a skillet, melt a stick of butter (yes, butter). Chop in a BIG onion and a stalk of celery--no no, not a STICK, the whole thing. That's right. Now let them cook down for a while. Onion cooked? Good. Put the dry bread into the biggest bowl you've got. Pour the sizzling hot butter all over the bread and mix it in--sorry about the burn, next time use a spoon.... Hm. Not enough, huh? Get a two cup measure full of water and pour it in a little at a time, mixing as you go (you can use your hands now, it'll be faster). Mix in the seasonings as you go: sage (loads of it), thyme (lots of it), pepper (eh, not so much, okay?). Keep mixing. If you couldn't get all the bread in the bowl at first, add it in now.

When the stuffing is packable, put the (empty, remember to pull out the giblets!) turkey on the rack in the roaster, undo the plastic gizmo that holds the legs together and start packing the body cavity full of stuffing... no honey, FULL. Cram that stuffing in there. Okay, now stuff the neck cavity the same way and pull the skin underneath it to hold it in. Yeah, it rips sometimes--don't worry about that. Any stuffing that lands in the drippings will just make the gravy better.

Still got stuffing left? Whoo hoo! Pack it all along the drumsticks, between them and the body. Make sure you put the gizmo back before you mound more stuffing between the drumsticks also; a goodly amount should be able to rest on them so that you have that classic "stuffing popping out of the bird" look.

Pop the lid on your roaster and put the bird in the oven at 250 overnight. Oh I know, but you see, I don't buy Butterball turkeys so I feel totally free to ignore their advice. I'm telling you, thawed 22 pounder crammed to the gills with stuffing: 250, overnight. If you put it in at midnight, you'll be having turkey between 10 a.m. and noon, and never a case of food poisoning in the thirty years I've been doing it this way. You might like to take the lid off the roaster and baste the bird for the last hour or so to get a crackly skin.

My mom lives about 40 miles away from Orlando, in Leesburg, so I would be staying as close to her as possible.

I am not a chef yet, Rufffryder, or even close. I don't have the experience yet, to rate that sort of job, or that title. I am doing my best to learn, however. Currently, I'm hunting for a place/job to do my Co-Op class at. I've also been cooking at the TG Center here, when they have the once a month social. I run both the vegetarian/vegan and carnivore grills, and supervise the prep work in the kitchen, if that is needed, before the grills fire up.

Don't talk to me about fried chicken :|

When I was down south in NC I first discoverd Bojangles and their lovely (spicy) fried chicken...and dirty rice to die for....and bo berry biscuits...I'm gonna hush on that now....

THEN we went further south to SC and I discovered Church's chicken....dear GOD......it was the best chicken I ever had.....the chicken was always juicy..but it still had that crunch.....omg....love me some church's

Then there was our favorite BBQ place in Greer, SC Mutt's....they had wicked good bbq AND fried chicken....and sweet tea for days.....Seriously, even when I moved back up here I found it difficult to delete their number from my phone. And I didn't even get to go there when I was back down there last year :( When Teddy and I move back down there I wanna be no more than 2 hrs away from there!!!

WOW!!!! That's better b some bad azz BBQ to travel atleast 3 hrs for it

being southern I love fried chicken although I don't make it that often. Because its such a treat there is a big ritual involved. I brine the bird using herbs and spices. I double drench too. I only use peanut oil to dry my chicken.

I am most loved for my steaks. I can make the best steak you ever ate. One of the keys is to always let your meat get room temp never throw cold meat on a grill unless its chicken. I use a cast iron grill with non-treated charcoal and some real wood.

yeah the corporateions have taken thanksgiving dinner hour and turned it into a shopping frenzy....i will gladly babysit the little ones and stay home.

Are you having a thanksgiving dinner somewhere?

I would go to Greece and there would be no restaurant only picking fresh fruits and cheeses from the farmers market and then head to the beach for a picnic....perhaps that someone special and if not then a great friend.

I was at a loss for stuffing some chicken breasts the other night, but this worked...

1 big glop of pesto
1 big glop of sour cream
2 fingers (I have big hands, though,) of provolone, grated
5 almonds, crushed and chopped
Salt and pepper

Worked so well... M was sad I'd only made single serving, haha.

Don't talk to you about fried chicken??? :|

Do you want me to post a warning before a fried chicken convo? :|

WARNING: Fried Chicken ahead

Something like that?

*smirk*

I am disgusted with most consumerism on most days not just the holidays....its heartbreaking to see Christmas being "sold" before Halloween ever even approaches. It seems to me that young people are a "target" in this economy i could be misspoken on that however that is what i see.

I remember feeling sick over the consumerism so i took 3 or 4 years and just celebrated the holiday did very little gift exchanges and whenever anyone would ask what i wanted i would simply reply time with my family.

I worry too that so many people are forgetting what this holiday is really about. I digress.....

So my daughter and granddaughters are going to be in attendance this morning to a brunch a bunch of us get together for monthly here im super excited to introduce them to some of my friends. My daughter has done a lot of volunteer work withing the community and volunteered for me at Pride 2 years in a row. Breakfast laughter and a rainy morning today looking forward to it.

I will get to greece someday.