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It's all good this way. Me and yous were talking awhile back about food allergens and getting levels tested and all that kinds of stuff. My heart still feels for ya. If you 'member, my daddyo had that super weird 'poultry disorder'. He hasn't been able to eat any birds since this crazy Thanksgiving back in 1986 or so. I was a little chap, and we went to my uncle's cabin in the woods outside Burlington Vermont. This place was built by them and it was off the grid, no electricity or indoor plumbing, cooking on the wood stove, lit with lanterns and candles. I think there was like 10 people there. Some sort of government lab built superbug got in that shack and unleashed hell. Or it was just gas. Lol...but seriously, it was something fuckt or it was food poison. I got it fairly mildly, but my dad and both uncles got destroyed. All of em say it was the sickest they've ever been and they were having to liquid guts in the outside half moon hotel. The women weren't nearly as bad. My dad couldn't eat birds after that.
Someone somewhere sometime told him that it might be the hormones and bioticals and all those shenanigans, so I convinced him to try some real nice turkey last year, and I scored a $65 bomber. I got a 12 pounder and spatchcocked it, and my dad had turkey for the first time in 35 years. He was in love.
He has no clue how spoiled he was, that was the best turkey I've ever had by a significant amount. I roasted it on a rack with the root veggies and aromatics underneath, and a bottle of Guiness Draught. I put my roasting pan on the stove after the turkey was done, and slowly boiled the water out...made a roux directly with that, and then cut it with low sodium organic turkey stock. I learned that from Adam Ragusea on YouTube, it's the best way to make gravy I've seen. That's how I'm gonna do every roasted turkey and gravy from now on.
This is the same turkey they serve at The White House for a long time. Highly recommended and not too too much.
Look at that color...it's freaking purple!!
Scoring the legs was new for me. Its now my thing. Hey baby...
Now ain't that just lovely dumplins
And then the toasty roasty reduction into liquid flavor country roux
After a trip through the strainer and roux'd up.
Haha....I was on a serious coleslaw mission after I discovered it was good. Haha. I made it 30 times in 6 months...I got it down though
Since then, I have done a few things for him with free range chickens with 100% success. Who'da thunkit?? My mom would have lost her shit...she only missed it by 10 months.
Someone somewhere sometime told him that it might be the hormones and bioticals and all those shenanigans, so I convinced him to try some real nice turkey last year, and I scored a $65 bomber. I got a 12 pounder and spatchcocked it, and my dad had turkey for the first time in 35 years. He was in love.
He has no clue how spoiled he was, that was the best turkey I've ever had by a significant amount. I roasted it on a rack with the root veggies and aromatics underneath, and a bottle of Guiness Draught. I put my roasting pan on the stove after the turkey was done, and slowly boiled the water out...made a roux directly with that, and then cut it with low sodium organic turkey stock. I learned that from Adam Ragusea on YouTube, it's the best way to make gravy I've seen. That's how I'm gonna do every roasted turkey and gravy from now on.
This is the same turkey they serve at The White House for a long time. Highly recommended and not too too much.
Look at that color...it's freaking purple!!
Scoring the legs was new for me. Its now my thing. Hey baby...
Now ain't that just lovely dumplins
And then the toasty roasty reduction into liquid flavor country roux
After a trip through the strainer and roux'd up.
Haha....I was on a serious coleslaw mission after I discovered it was good. Haha. I made it 30 times in 6 months...I got it down though
Since then, I have done a few things for him with free range chickens with 100% success. Who'da thunkit?? My mom would have lost her shit...she only missed it by 10 months.