It’s nearly upon us, USers. Time to start planning and complaining.
We are doing a small immediate family-only Thanksgiving this year on Thursday, and then we are hosting a siblings’ sidesgiving over the weekend.
Might do a non traditional Thanksgiving for the immediate family one. We have done steak dinners in the past, when our kids were sick, and that was nice. Haven’t finalized the plans yet, though.
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It will probably just be the wife and me and one daughter who lives with us. We’re too far away from family to join them or expect them to join us. That’s fine by me; then we’re not beholden to anyone’s schedule. The turkey usually gets done somewhere between 2 & 3 and we eat somewhere between 3 & 4.
…and I know I post this every year but it really is worth the trouble… https://archive.ph/YuOQi …scroll down down to post #196. (Ms Stewart keeps changing up her websites so I don’t have a direct link atm.)
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Probably the usual: me, Mrs. Hoffman, younger 2 kids. Child #1 will be in California, Child #2 will be working. Kids will plan what we’re going to have, we’ll do that early afternoon. No turkey, no ham, no stuffing, none of that stuff.
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Going to one of the brothers’ house.
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I like the idea of stuffing made inside the bird, but my brother is a chef and told my wife that the stuffing doesn’t get hot enough inside the bird to kill bacteria. So I don’t get that anymore.
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I’ve heard that too…I did my own research (with an instant read thermometer) …the basting over the stuffing is glorious…also, we don’t always stuff the turkey either, so yeah.
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I loved stuffing in the bird as a kid but now someone is a killjoy about potential food poisoning.
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Per usual, going out to a nice restaurant with family.
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My grandmother also.canned tomatoes without a pressure cooker. Id say im surprised im not dead, but my brother was in the hospital for a week with food poisoning when we were young.
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Well , that is because the turkey was often overcooked, so all bacteria gone. But a shitty dry turkey.
One can always cook the turkey to done, pull out the stuffing, and cook it more.
We are planning T-Day here, show off the new downstairs and outdoors, but medical issues are arising, might have to move it to my bro’s-in-law.
I’ll suggest that to my spouse and report back, though I’ve a pretty good idea of what the response will be. Something to do with doing something myself, hopefully just cooking.
Anyone seen (thinking about trying) the new Butterball that they have developed that you can cook from frozen?
And I thought about posting this in the innumeracy thread but here will work. I was at WalMart the other day and captured this. When I showed it to one of the workers in the background, I had to explain what was wrong. I wasn’t going to be too hard on a worker at WalMart but then I showed it to a manager/supervisor and had to explain what was wrong in the picture to them as well.
But I have to admit that is actually a pretty good price on Butterballs this far out from Thanksgiving.
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I’ve tried cook from frozen before. It works surprisingly well!! 
How long does it take? And at what temperature?
Seems like a lot of steaming to me.
Oh, and how do you get the giblets that are in a plastic bag out first?
Googled:
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-a-completely-frozen-turkey-for-thanksgiving-225796
eh. We like the brine and the herb blend that my wife uses from the PBS show.
My spouse cooks from frozen the day before. Turkey gets carved, out in cookie sheets and in the fridge overnight. Way less work the day of, and tastes great.
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A BBQ place by me is offering a very good deal on an 8-person meal for $175:
$175 – Pick up 11/27/24
Reheating Instructions Included
- Smoaked Turkey Breast with Gravy
- Cranberry Orange Compote
- Garlic Whipped Potatoes
- Cornbread Stuffing
- Roasted Bacon Mustard Brussel Sprouts
- Smoaked Mac and Cheese
- Dinner Rolls with Rosemary Honey Butter
- Choice of Traditional Pumpkin or Pecan Pie
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Skipping this year. In-laws are too far down the QAnon hole.
Especially if Trump wins, I will not sit and listen about how ever since Trump was elected, my headaches have gone down, so clearly RFK has already started cleaning up the chemtrails even while Biden’s still around and their pharma poison is getting out of my system, and isn’t it nice that they’re going to round up those illegals?
Even if Harris won, I’m not going to listen to their theories about post-birth abortions and sex changes on prisoners.
My family isn’t so bad, but they totally understood that we were staying at home this year. We’ll at least see my family for Christmas. In-laws TBD, if they’re getting a little too January 6th Round 2 then we might skip them for that, too.
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Pre-brined and they do not pack the neck and giblets in the turkey. Not sure they even give them to you. I’d expect that the majority throw those out anyway. I usually do.
But it is specifically prepared to be cooked from frozen. It says right in the instructions not to thaw it.
Ah.
That’s a completely different situation.
[turns to camera]
Never mind.
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