inventory

[the_siobhan]

Last month
* Went to xthlcm's and jin_aili's wedding in Maine
* Visited New Brunswick [1]
* Visited Nova Scotia
* Ate lobster and shark
* Started therapy
* Started acupuncture
Had Big Fun with markeris and mog_warbeast
* Went under Niagara Falls
* Drank bubble tea
* Saw a moose
Saw New Model Army
* Learned how to make two new dishes with squash and pears and nectarines and they were delicious.[2]

This month
* Tried dulce. Ew.
See the Von Drats in concert
Go to Stratford with bcholmes
* Go on a sailboat with my sister
Eat turkey! I love turkey.
* Learn to cook turkey! No idea what I'm doing! But how hard can it be?
Hook up with inulro and her man while they are in town.
Hook up with alchemuse and gwyrah while they are in town.

Next month
* See Nine Inch Nails with bcholmes [3]
Nanowrimo
50_ft_queenie's and mr_sharkey's wedding
Hook up with lee_chaos while he's in town
Hook up with amon_zero while he's in town
Hook up with mandor1971 while he's in town

Today
Did a load of laundry
Put clothes away
Made bread.
Applied for a job
Am now leaving the house to go visit my daughter



[1] * means something I haven't done before
[2] Soup and curry. Yum.
[3] I am led to understand this means I owe her another Ani Difranco concert.

Comments

[medakse.livejournal.com]

Eat turkey! I love turkey.
* Learn to cook turkey! No idea what I'm doing! But how hard can it be?

My family swears by the coke trick: pour a can of coke over the turkey while it's cooking.
:)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That sounds... scary.

[alchemuse.livejournal.com]

I think Matthew has it but if he doesn't, make sure we have contact info!!!!

:-D

[silentq.livejournal.com]

cris had developed an affection for beer can chicken, and is threatening to grill our turkey using this method. The carcass always looks a bit disturbing, sitting up on the grill...

[griffen.livejournal.com]

My father always slow-roasts his turkeys, even with all the warnings about why you shouldn't. Before putting them in the oven, he takes an entire stick of butter and massages it into the turkey skin, to make sure the skin cooks correctly (turkey skin is teh wonderfulness when it's done right).

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Cooking a turkey is very easy, and so is making stuffing. I have an excellent recipe for stuffing with dried fruit and nuts if you're interested.

If you feel like splurging, an organic turkey is worth the price. I've never cooked a juicier bird.

BTW, please let Jen know she's invited to the wedding. :)

[medakse.livejournal.com]

is good and juicy! gives it sweet flavor. I've also heard Dr. Pepper is good.
http://www.allrecipes.com is a great place to look. I find myself mixing and matching recipes.

[medakse.livejournal.com]

few years back, my dad got a turkey deep fryer.
remember, remember, that last Thursday of November
when we fried a turkey.
a TURKEY.
...
...
...

it was verra good, albeit scary.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Will do. :-)

[mandor1971.livejournal.com]

Network crash ate my comment! :P

Turkey is pretty easy to cook. Just remember to remove the bag o' stuff from inside the turkey before cooking it. (Voice of experience.)

Deep-frying makes for good turkey for the amount of work, but be sure to follow all the instructions, do it away from anything flammable, have a large fire extenguisher on hand, and keep a couple people sober.

Where are you going sailling? Should be a lot of fun! I hope you enjoy it.

A lot of cooking shows recommend brining the turkey (soaking it in salt water) as it makes for better flavor.

[quetzal.livejournal.com]

no way! Nanowrimo?

I tried it last year, but I kept writing other things instead. ^_^
I'm going to try again this year.

How far did you get? Did you hit the goal?

^_^
I'm just excited. I've never known anyone else who did it. heh.

Good luck this year!

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

We eat a lot of not-roasted turkey. We buy turkey chops and grill them, turkey strips and stir-fry them, stuff like that. We treat it like chicken that's more prone to drying out, so marinades, careful not to over-cook, that sort of thing.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I'm doing it is because turkey goes on big sale right after thanksgiving over and I can get bucket 'o' meat for not very much money. That usually means just the whole birds.

I figure I'll do it the way I do all my cooking - look up a bunch of recipies on the internet, take some of the advice my friends give me, mush it all together and cross my fingers.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Will do.

[briarhill.livejournal.com]

If you can make bread, you can do turkey. Seriously. Idea is to get one that is not 24lbs - treat it like an oversized chicken. Best is to NOT stuff it - a: it takes longer to cook and b: it's not really healthy to do that anyway. Bake the stuffing in a dish on the side if you need stuffing. My favorite is to rinse a 10lb turkey inside and out - put a peeled, quartered onion in the body cavity, rub the outer skin with 1/4 lemon, then put that in the body too. Sprinkle pepper on the skin (not salt - that draws the juices out of the bird and dries it out) and put in the oven. Bake at 350F for about 1.5 hours - check at the joint of the leg. If it's still pink in between leg and body, cook longer.
If you like rosemary, sliding a spear of fresh rosemary between skin and breastmeat on either side of the breast gives great flavor to the meat and a pretty design on the bird. Just be sure to take it out when cutting.

Oh, and isn't New Brunswick lovely this time of year?

[emulsional.livejournal.com]

I've been known to boil ribs in Dr pepper, onion and garlic before interoducing them to the fire. I've never had ribs that fell off the bone until I tried this trick...

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the rosemary. I was thinking if I did stuffing I'd do something like brown/wild rice with nuts and mushrooms - that sounds more interesting than bread.

New Brunswick was gorgeous. We definitely want to go back, it's a lot closer to drive to than I ever realized.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be able to deep-fry it anyway - I don't anything I could put the oil in.

I have no idea where my sister's boat is - I figure I'll be finding out on Sunday

I've heard of the brine trick before. I might look into that.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

See, it makes sense to me with ribs. But for some reason I can't picture it with turkey.

Go figure.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Kinda like how C'est What uses coffee porter to make a BBQ sauce for their ribs? It's hella yummy. But on a turkey? Not so much.

[emulsional.livejournal.com]

Ha! It's like the red wine/white wine rule.

If Dr. Pepper/Coke any make sense for red meat, than what pop do you cook with poltry and fish? Sprite?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Mountain Dew? :-)

[emulsional.livejournal.com]

ew!

Oooo Cranberry Ginger Ale!

[emulsional.livejournal.com]

Seems we were onto something with the talk of basting with 7-upish type drinks.

This is assuming ham falls under the "other white meat" category:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/sevenup2/3.html