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Cook the turkey in a brown paper bag - comes out perfect every time.

I don't care for cranberry myself but the rest is good.

Those little plastic pop-ups work perfectly EVERY time.

Bingo, that is what I do, that way I am not the only turkey.

It's gumbo and chargrilled oysters for us this year.

Thanksgiving is my favorite dinner of the year. It is a giant feast of country cooking in these parts. Perhaps it is a Carolina thing?

Thanks Giving has always been one of my favorite holidays. Store bought stuffing with apples, raisins and giblets added is the best part of the meal IMO. Pumpkin pies, Christmas cookies, candied yams, mashed potatoes, corn, and gravy, turkey, a little bit of cranberry sauce.

I like most of the foods, smelling the meal cook, time with family, and the unofficial kickoff to Christmas.

Once you pressure cook a turkey, you realize that everything else is inferior.

Oh....and you're out 90 minutes of your day.

In today's society...this.

Ymmv

Turkey is a zero for me, or in today’s speak, a hard pass. My Thanksgiving & Christmas dinners are Cornish Game hens, Pea Salad, Broccoli Casserole, Mc & cheese & Green Bean Casserole. I make the Pecan pies from my 1880’s era recipe. Make the whipped topping from scratch with some Ammaretto, yum, yum! My family clamors for my Pecan Pie.

I think it's agreed that they probably didn't eat turkey. Venison and waterfowl were likely the proteins for that meal.

Rather have mtn dew and cheetos myself

but family and all…

Cooking a turkey in a plastic bag is so easy, I can't understand how anyone could screw it up.

You had me right up until Amaretto. For the life of me I can't figure out why anyone needs an alcoholic beverage added to their dessert. I sat down at a nice restaurant here in NOLA with my wife last month. Every one of their desserts had alcohol in it. They tried to get too cute and creative with every single menu item. I can appreciate a little culinary creativity, but son of a bitch, this place was over the top.

"Truffle Oil Braised Swan Taint With a Side Maraschino Cherry Kale compote on a bed of Arugala."

...except for one that's been on a grill's rotisserie.. This year, unfortunately, I have to use the oven.. But I use a big v-rack and the bird goes on it tits down.. Take it out when the indicated meat thermometer is ten degrees shy of 180f.. Cover it and let it sit for 25-30 mns before carving..

Breast down can make a big difference, as can waiting to carve it. Helps preserve the juices.

Dayum

My 22 quart mirro I doubt even a 12 lb bird would fit in it.

how big of a pressure cooker yall got?

Every few years the wife and I say ‘screw it’ to having Thanksgiving away from our home because of the poorly made food by family.

This year we’re gonna be by ourselves and the menu will look the same as this picture taken in 2020.

I make the bird and mashed tatos. Wife handles the rest.




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OP sounds like a bitch so the fact he’d hate thanksgiving makes sense.

Thanksgiving food isn’t hard to get right and if you’re too lazy to do it yourself but want to blame your wife who you chose that says a lot more about you than her.

If I had to I’d eat ham or pot roast on Thanksgiving because the day is about just that… giving thanks… not the food.

The fact you can complain the way you do shows on one hand how much you have to be thankful for, and on the other just how ungrateful you are for what you have.

Tony Chachere’s on mash taters