Thanksgiving day menu

[T Pearce]

Wife just verified the shopping list and is headed out in a moment to pick up the groceries before the stores fill with the weekend shoppers
I really enjoy cooking and entertaining friends and family. Kinda lamed up this year so I get to supervise my kitchen and then just show up and eat.

I consider myself a good cook, but I'm sure I'm an even better eater! More gravy please!
May all your time with family be special
T

[Bean Counter]

We got a smoked turkey at Whole Paycheck last year.

Best. Bird. Ever.

[Toptwo]

The in-laws are coming to dinner from Nevada this year. They requested a "special" thanksgiving menu. So, I will be cooking my wife the traditional thanksgiving dinner the week after Thanksgiving. As far as Thanksgiving day is concerned, the in-laws want to hop the ferry and go to The Crab Pot in downtown Seattle. Not traditional turkey day fare, but I never mind eating a ton of seafood!

[runamuk]

This is the first year in about the last 28 that I wont be cooking, well not a turkey dinner.  I am kinda upset about it, I love cooking.  just me and my Tiny dog, no tv either so first year I dont watch the dog show in a while as well.

[bowhunterwa87]

Hunting til dark...leftovers it is!!!

[BOWHUNTER45]

Long as I have at least 6 pumpkin pies cooked and maybe 3 chocolate pudding pies with gram cracker crust I am Happy as can be 

[kenzmad]

Small ham and mac n cheese in the camper oven. Pumpkin pie for dessert. I love hunting over thanksgiving, otherwise I would have to be at the inlaws pretending Its fun

[JimmyHoffa]

Small ham and mac n cheese in the camper oven. Pumpkin pie for dessert. I love hunting over thanksgiving, otherwise I would have to be at the inlaws pretending Its fun

  Yeah, best T-day, X-mas and NYE have all been out at hunting camps.

[T Pearce]

Small ham and mac n cheese in the camper oven. Pumpkin pie for dessert. I love hunting over thanksgiving, otherwise I would have to be at the inlaws pretending Its fun

  Yeah, best T-day, X-mas and NYE have all been out at hunting camps.

way jealous. Snowing up there now.

[T Pearce]

Run, wish you lived closer.
Bright side. Nothing to clean up! Ive been away on the holidays before, I didnt even have my dog. 
Jump in the truck and head up Recer Cr rd. Take a grill and the coffee makins with some doughnuts. Hang a tarp, build a fire and watch it snow.
Relax, take pix and show us what we missed!
T
Note: should you decide to do this, PM someone and let them know which drainage youre going checkout.

[SniperDanWA]

Going to a friends house, 20+ people.  Leave after the meal for late archery. 

Gonna find me an elk that wants to provide a Happy Thanksgiving for my family

[Fastass350]

I wanted to go hunt early, since elk opens Wed, and deer on Thurs. She wasn't too excited about it since dinner is at our house this year so I figured I should help. Full traditional meal, turkey that'll set in the big chief for a while before the oven then the spiral cut ham will sit in the smoker for a few hours. Mashed red potatoes in the crock pot, sweet potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, macaroni fruit salad, deviled eggs, too many pies and smoked trout dip for appetizer. Sure I'm forgetting something. Probably won't be able to walk through the woods Friday!

[carpsniperg2]

Spend some time with the muzzleloader or bow in my hand. Hunting late muzzle loader deer and archery elk.

Then I am doing a bachelor thanksgiving this year. A couple of Cornish Game Hens and some scalloped potatoes and green bean casserole 

[T Pearce]

Thankgiving for us is traditional, turkey etc. We were assigned rolls, candied yams and the green bean casserole, and it's held at my aunts home (1/2 mile across the field)

Christmas dinner is held here and I plan something different every year (Crab sounded good) everyone leaves with full bellies and plastic tubs for the next day. I'm a Weber guy so if it can go on the grill that makes it even better. I cheat the rolls buying the Rhodes frozen dough balls, momma would not be happy with us!.
In the past when the folks were here we would do the salt Prime rib. Hard to go wrong with that. Next Thursday..... hopefully I'll be up to the trip;)
As a boy....
I remember feeding the cows while watching for that first snow flake and coming back to the house to watch the Charlie Brown specials.... Grade schooler, and in case some of you were wondering....the school had more that one room!

[4fletch]

Hunting til dark...leftovers it is!!!

Me 2

[T Pearce]

The Cornish hens sound good, but the wife figured out the were baby chickens and wont have anything to do with them.  Guess you call it the bachelor dinner, wonder why?

[RadSav]

Thanks giving dinner for us is usually elk jerky, teriyaki sticks, cheese and crackers.  And the wife usually has a winged warrior beverage of some sort.  On a rare occasion we pack a turkey sandwich.  Normally too dang tired from hunting to make anything more than that!

[runamuk]

The Cornish hens sound good, but the wife figured out the were baby chickens and wont have anything to do with them.  Guess you call it the bachelor dinner, wonder why?

they are not baby chickens how silly this is not chicken veal, they are a specifically bred type of chicken.  People are so silly they read stuff online or hear about it and believe its true.  Actually Game chickens were originally bred for fighting still are in some parts they are small and aggressive (game) 

hmmmmm maybe I can take my 410 and find some sort of small fowl to shoot at....

[RadSav]

The Cornish hens sound good, but the wife figured out the were baby chickens and wont have anything to do with them.  Guess you call it the bachelor dinner, wonder why?

Almost all chickens are slaughtered within 30 and 70 days!  A Cornish hen I hear is slaughtered about a week prior to a fryer.  So I guess you could say all commercially grown chicken in a store is baby chicken.

Ever eat a "Spent Layer" chicken?  That is an older hen that has stopped producing eggs.  Tuff as a wild turkey!!  Crock Pot is about the only option on those darn things

[Bigshooter]

The Cornish hens sound good, but the wife figured out the were baby chickens and wont have anything to do with them.  Guess you call it the bachelor dinner, wonder why?

they are not baby chickens how silly this is not chicken veal, they are a specifically bred type of chicken.  People are so silly they read stuff online or hear about it and believe its true.  Actually Game chickens were originally bred for fighting still are in some parts they are small and aggressive (game) 

hmmmmm maybe I can take my 410 and find some sort of small fowl to shoot at....

A game hen that you buy at the store is almost always a cornish rock hybrid.  And they are babies when you kill them not sure what you have been reading online.  But I have raised cornish game hens and I butchered them at 4 weeks old.  Also I grew the fryer's to 6 weeks old before I butchered them.  They haven't even grown in all of there feathers at 6 weeks old.  If that's not a baby chicken I don't know what is.


RadSAV
My great gramma would eat her old laying hens after they stopped laying.  She would always pressure cook them.  I ate them a few times and it was pretty good.

[RadSav]

My great gramma would eat her old laying hens after they stopped laying.  She would always pressure cook them.  I ate them a few times and it was pretty good.

I have heard pressure cooking wild turkey is the way to go.  Makes sense that laying hens would be the same!  I might need to do some research and get me a pressure cooker.  How dangerous are those things?  Never used one before.

[T Pearce]

The Cornish hens sound good, but the wife figured out the were baby chickens and wont have anything to do with them.  Guess you call it the bachelor dinner, wonder why?

they are not baby chickens how silly this is not chicken veal, they are a specifically bred type of chicken.  People are so silly they read stuff online or hear about it and believe its true.  Actually Game chickens were originally bred for fighting still are in some parts they are small and aggressive (game) 

hmmmmm maybe I can take my 410 and find some sort of small fowl to shoot at....

heck yes you should go and take your shotty gun for a walk! Take killer the hound with you... wear some orange. Take a 22 pistole.. stop at the bakery and get a whole dang box of fritters and a special treat for the attack dog, some of your fav fritter chaser. String a tarp, build a fire, put coffee on, kick out a chair and try and convince yourself you need to leave the flames and stomp around in the chill!
Run, if you can't tell. This how I roll, I've solved a problem or two doing just this.
Re: the small monster fighting birds I refered to as babies.....foolish of me to say such a thing. Please share your story with my wife.

[T Pearce]

The Cornish hens sound good, but the wife figured out the were baby chickens and wont have anything to do with them.  Guess you call it the bachelor dinner, wonder why?

they are not baby chickens how silly this is not chicken veal, they are a specifically bred type of chicken.  People are so silly they read stuff online or hear about it and believe its true.  Actually Game chickens were originally bred for fighting still are in some parts they are small and aggressive (game) 

hmmmmm maybe I can take my 410 and find some sort of small fowl to shoot at....

A game hen that you buy at the store is almost always a cornish rock hybrid.  And they are babies when you kill them not sure what you have been reading online.  But I have raised cornish game hens and I butchered them at 4 weeks old.  Also I grew the fryer's to 6 weeks old before I butchered them.  They haven't even grown in all of there feathers at 6 weeks old.  If that's not a baby chicken I don't know what is.


RadSAV
My great gramma would eat her old laying hens after they stopped laying.  She would always pressure cook them.  I ate them a few times and it was pretty good.

sssshhhhhhhhh!

[T Pearce]

Rad, I use pressure cookers alot.
The wife is afraid of them because her mom cooked something that foamed up and plugged a vent that caused the safety to release making a mess on the ceiling.
Have a big one for pres canning and an 8 qt for cooking.
Never cooked a turkey.... but most everything else.
Google pres cooker recipes, brace yourself, replace printer cartridges often.
Have fun
Tom

[Boss .300 winmag]

Arrowleaf Bistro in Winthrop thanksgiving dinner with all the fixens is what we are having! 

[CoryTDF]

Dead bird, dead plants, juice from fermented dead plants.

[RadSav]

Rad, I use pressure cookers alot.
The with is afraid of then cause her mom cooked something that foamed up and plugged a vent that caused the safety to release making a mess on the ceiling.
Have a big one for pres canning and an 8 qt for cooking.
Never cooked a turkey.... but most everything else.
Google pres cooker recipes, brace yourself, replace printer cartridges often.
Have fun

Only experience I have had with pressure cookers was when grandma would be pressure canning.  Can't even remember what it was she canned like that...very long time ago - think it may have been beats .  I do remember she would never let us kids in the kitchen while doing it.  Always told us it was too dangerous!  Knowing grandma she may have just wanted us little monsters outside and out of her hair 

[T Pearce]

Dead bird, dead plants, juice from fermented dead plants.

Yup, sounds like a party!

What I like about this place..... the humor is my kind of humor.
T

[hrd2fnd]

This year we've invited my friends (RIP Jack) wife and her son's family (5) over for a home cooked fresh turkey dinner with all the fixins. Time for me to get to plucking 2 birds for dinner this year and a house full of 15-18 people.

[T Pearce]

Plucking? This will be a special dinner for sure.
God Bless
T

[RadSav]

This year we've invited my friends (RIP Jack) wife and her son's family (5) over for a home cooked fresh turkey dinner with all the fixins. Time for me to get to plucking 2 birds for dinner this year and a house full of 15-18 people.

How old are these birds you are plucking?  Always wondered at what age a turkey gets tough.  Never shot a wild one that wasn't tough, but never shot a poult either.

[hrd2fnd]

These were hatched in late march early April them about 32 weeks old. I prefer their age for eating 28-38 weeks depending on size. The larger Tom was 28 lbs cleaned and butchered at 28 weeks leaving the others to fatten up until I believe they are between 15-20 lbs

[Blacklab]

The in-laws are coming to dinner from Nevada this year. They requested a "special" thanksgiving menu. So, I will be cooking my wife the traditional thanksgiving dinner the week after Thanksgiving. As far as Thanksgiving day is concerned, the in-laws want to hop the ferry and go to The Crab Pot in downtown Seattle. Not traditional turkey day fare, but I never mind eating a ton of seafood!

Been there ate there and  awesome eats, enjoy 

[Revwrangler]

Having surgery the day before thanksgiving, so all that's on the menu for me this year is pain killers. The family has quite the feast planned though.

[idahohuntr]

I'm not sure whats on the menu but we're going to my folks place in Idaho and my mom tells me something broke on their satellite dish this afternoon...and the repair guy won't be there until Friday    She has no awareness that the 49ers play the seahawks thurs night 

[Bean Counter]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

[JJB11B]

Im going deer hunting and then going to work...Corn dogs it is

[RadSav]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

Bet it is going to taste GREAT!!!  Cheaper than diamonds and a dog house

[gaddy]

yes we have a turkey! yes we have all the fixings! The most relished thing about thanksgiving is my wife's CLAM DIP! My mother only taught 4 brothers wife's her recipe, and my wife was the only one to master it. I only get it whenever my youngest son comes home for some stupid reason. Since i was a kid and to this day, you can forget the chips, Just grab a spoon. The last time my mom made her dip was the last time we all hunted together, if you can imagine 4 grown men huddled around a giant bowl of dip with spoons in hand and a smiling mother, then you can imagine... ah the memories!

[T Pearce]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

fruits of your labor brother, enjoy it!

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Slightly rubbed Elk Loin with seasonings and wrapped with bacon! Can't wait! Cook on the BBQ till bacon is done and internal temp at 120 deg. This inspired by RadSav...

[hrd2fnd]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

Considering I sold 1 to a member for 40.00 not smoked I would say yeah you got screwed   

[Bean Counter]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

Bet it is going to taste GREAT!!!  Cheaper than diamonds and a dog house

Its DAMMED good. I just had no idea it was this astronomical.

I suppose its time I finally buy a smoker and spend the winter and spring diving into the hobby of smoking foods. Maybe I can take some zoom burst photos down of the smoke pipe     

[Boss .300 winmag]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

Bet it is going to taste GREAT!!!  Cheaper than diamonds and a dog house

Its DAMMED good. I just had no idea it was this astronomical.

I suppose its time I finally buy a smoker and spend the winter and spring diving into the hobby of smoking foods. Maybe I can take some zoom burst photos down of the smoke pipe     

Smokem with some peyote, everyone at your house will be on thier own vacation. 

[Bean Counter]

One step at a time. 

One of you people keeps posting up smoked cheese. That sounds great and I want to try it some time. IIRC you can also smoke jerky, which also sounds great. Hmmm... I need to add an item to my Christmas list 

[hrd2fnd]

Oh crap! My wife bought the smoked turkey at Whole Foods again. It was $88!!!       

12-14 pound all natural turkey and yeah they have labor and time into it since it was smoked, but holy cow this is ridiculous. Did we get taken to the cleaners or what??

Bet it is going to taste GREAT!!!  Cheaper than diamonds and a dog house

Its DAMMED good. I just had no idea it was this astronomical.

I suppose its time I finally buy a smoker and spend the winter and spring diving into the hobby of smoking foods. Maybe I can take some zoom burst photos down of the smoke pipe     

Smokem with some peyote, everyone at your house will be on thier own vacation. 

shhhh 

[carpsniperg2]

Spend some time with the muzzleloader or bow in my hand. Hunting late muzzle loader deer and archery elk.

Then I am doing a bachelor thanksgiving this year. A couple of Cornish Game Hens and some scalloped potatoes and green bean casserole 

Had a nice little pheasant hunt tonight. So couple of pheasants might join the game hens in the oven tomorrow.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Nice carp!