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Hi all,

Happy Thanksgiving. All of us have a lot to be thankful for. We are having about 10 people this year and am cooking two 10-11 pound young turkeys. I am smoking one on the Weber Kettle and the wife is doing one in the oven using the recipe below.

I am brining both turks using the recipe below. For a better view or to see the video, go to the food network site and put in good eats roast turkey.

Enjoy!

Fins4ever!~




Good Eats Roast Turkey
 
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, also featured in Food Network Magazine
Show: Good EatsEpisode: Romancing the Bird (A Good Eats Thanksgiving)
Recipe categories: Fruit, Apple, Poultry, Turkey, more
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Ingredients
1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey
For the brine:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 gallon vegetable stock
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1 1/2 teaspoons allspice berries
1 1/2 teaspoons chopped candied ginger
1 gallon heavily iced water
For the aromatics:
1 red apple, sliced
1/2 onion, sliced
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup water
4 sprigs rosemary
6 leaves sage
Canola oil
Directions
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2 to 3 days before roasting:

Begin thawing the turkey in the refrigerator or in a cooler kept at 38 degrees F.

Combine the vegetable stock, salt, brown sugar, peppercorns, allspice berries, and candied ginger in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally to dissolve solids and bring to a boil. Then remove the brine from the heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate.

Early on the day or the night before you'd like to eat:

Combine the brine, water and ice in the 5-gallon bucket. Place the thawed turkey (with innards removed) breast side down in brine. If necessary, weigh down the bird to ensure it is fully immersed, cover, and refrigerate or set in cool area for 8 to 16 hours, turning the bird once half way through brining.

Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Remove the bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard the brine.

Place the bird on roasting rack inside a half sheet pan and pat dry with paper towels.

Combine the apple, onion, cinnamon stick, and 1 cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Add steeped aromatics to the turkey's cavity along with the rosemary and sage. Tuck the wings underneath the bird and coat the skin liberally with canola oil.

Roast the turkey on lowest level of the oven at 500 degrees F for 30 minutes. Insert a probe thermometer into thickest part of the breast and reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Set the thermometer alarm (if available) to 161 degrees F. A 14 to 16 pound bird should require a total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours of roasting. Let the turkey rest, loosely covered with foil or a large mixing bowl for 15 minutes before carving.

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For whatever reason my grandmother is also cooking 2 10-lb turkeys this year instead of 1 bigger one.  Is this all the rage now, just like deep frying was 10 years ago? 

Anyway, hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the three F's: Family, Food, and Football!

The 2 smaller turkeys works out best for us. One is smoked and the other in the oven. Wife gets drippings and people have their choice of type of meat. I have heard that younger turkeys are more tender than the big ones, but I don't know.

As a long time fisherman, I do believe that smaller fish are better eating than the very big ones.

I'm cooking for my Mom and I,my "Wife" and her GF might come too.A couple of years ago, It was sleeting/spitting snow while I was smoking the bird,this year mid 60's some rain later in the day..and I'm roasting it in the house.I choose wrong every year....

I have a few "Thanksgiving dinners" this spread out over the 4 days..By Sunday I'll be happy to just eat a pork chop,or chinese food!

So it makes eat,and home improvement,before it get's cold again next week....

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone...

I'll be up at 8am to play our annual "we still think we are in our early twenties" tackle Turkeybowl game. After I have beat my body into submission I will be off to my first of two "dinners" tomorrow to eat and watch football. Then will polish off the night drinking a few coldies and plaing Black Ops II until the sun comes up as my wife works on Friday and I do not.

I hope you all have a safe and great Thanksgiving.

I really love working at the supermarket First they send me a gift card and now they invite me to a Holiday dinner. Plus, I have the most amazing friends in the world. I texted all of them before my shift to say Happy Thanksgiving, and by the end of the shift, almost all of them had texted me back. I have so much to be thankful for.

I posted this as my facebook status for Thanksgiving.

You're exactly right.  The bigger fish get you more meat but the smaller ones are better quality.  Quality always trumps quantity.  Granted, my wife can work wonders with fish as she is a chef at a local seafood restaurant. 

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from the Florida Panhandle.

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

I hate this holiday shit, but it's getting better about now. Makers Mark is the shit.................Great games today. HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my TDMMC friends. Yes, all of you. Even the ones that think that I'm the white devil slavemaster  >:D. Have a great one guys !!!!
 

I ate only 18.5 cookies this year, a rather disappointing effort.  My record for a family gathering is 25.

If you are wondering how I do this without gaining weight I will tell you.  I ran six miles on a treadmill in the morning.

You are a lucky man. It is hard to beat well prepared seafood. I joke with the wife that one of my wife's missions is to find the ultimate fish sandwich. The closest I have come was from a place called "Grills" at Port Canaveral, FL.

They make an unbelievable grilled fresh ahi tuna on a fresh baked sub roll with all the toppings. Really awesome!

I know the place you're talking about.  I've had that sandwich as well.  Excellent choice.

ugh I still have a belly ache from yesterday

I don't do the Turkey.  That's Mrs. Fin's department.  My job is the Spaghetti Meatballs and Sausage and the fish.

My sauce:
18 Tomatos peeled and seeded
2 tbsp Olive Oil
2 tbsp herbs/spices (basil, oregano, thyme etc.)
2 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 cup chopped mushrooms
pepper
salt
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of secret ingredient.
Makes about 2-2 1/2 quarts
The only bitch of it is you have to get the tomatos to boil down and it takes a few hours but it's worth it.

Meatballs:
1/2 cup of chopped green pepper
1 clove chopped Garlic
1/2 cup chopped onions
Worchestershire sauce
2 pounds of 80% Ground Beef
salt
pepper
soy sauce
You don't need much worchestershire and soy sauce.  I use a total of about 1/3 of a cup for the whole 2 pounds of ground beef.

Pretty much you let that sit for a few hours and then mix in the garlic, pepper, salt and chopped green pepper onions and garlic with the bread crumbs by hand.  Keep pouring in the bread crumbs until it looks like a meatloaf mix, then split it up into little meatballs. 

Cut the rope-style sausage into chunks.  place in a bowl.  Fill bowl with second secret ingredient.  Leave sit for a couple hours in the fridge.

cook the meatballs in a separate pan until they START to brown.  Then take the meatballs and the sausage out of the bowl and throw it directly into the boiling sauce.

Why am I not surprised...oh wait.... this is why

Surprised you're not stuck on the commode.

What a small world. Yes, the place is a gold mine. A must see for anyone coming to Brevard County. A popular activity is sitting outside at the Tiki bar which is right next to the boat ramps and watching the "boat follies."

I have seen people slip and fall, lose their boat and have to go get it and even saw a guy back in too far and was unable to get out. They had to get a tow truck. lol

I docked my boat and walked right up to the Tiki Bar, sat down, chilled out and watched some of those follies.  This was last summer when I did my "sail around the State of Florida" with my wife.