Cough! Choke! Gasp! (stupid oven)

[MimzMum]

So about a week ago we had lamb shank for dinner and, since hubby broiled it basically, the ‘remains’ were ALL over the inside of the oven. Can’t even THINK about using it for turkey tomorrow with all that muck in there….

So since it’s an almost brand new electric oven with self-cleaning mechanism …I decided, “What the heck, instead of using Tilex or some other noxious substance that will foul the food even worse tomorrow, how about I use the CLEAN feature?”

Oh yah. WONDERFUL idea.

Even with a mild wipe down of the inside, we had smoke seething out the front and in minutes the house is swarmed with it!  This is no weather to be opening doors and windows, but…it was that or stop breathing altogether.

I made sure to close off the bunnies’ room so they didn’t have to put up with the stink, but OMG! *squints* My eyes are still burning and my throat is sore from coughing!

Urgh. This is my LAST Thanksgiving as cook, I swear! (I swear that every year) Next year someone is taking me to a nice Chinese restaurant, so help me!

*hack-hack…wheeze*

Don’t even have the bird in the oven yet and already thigns are going wrong. Not a good sign.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

LOL That sounds like my kitchen (smoke, noxious smells) heheh

Why don’t you get a turkey deep fryer next year? I don’t eat meat, but I’ve heard deep fried turkey is amazing (though I can’t quite work out in my head how it works out?)

[MimzMum]

lolz…My grandfather used to get the deep fried turkey treatment when he went to his friends’ houses for T-day. I think my birth dad has cooked them too. But at this point, I may just swill down some of that wonky turkey and gravy soda for next year. ^_^

I’m getting to the point where meat just doesn’t interest me anymore…again. I went vegetarian in my early twenties and it’s beginning to look like a better idea than dealing with this mess! But then all I’ve ever cooked is store bought turkey and (beg and plead as I might) I have yet to taste a range fed. I’d really like to try it before I give up altogether. Store bought turkeys (and all the nasty stuff they stick in them to make them ‘cook perfectly’) tend to upset my stomach anyway.

Besides. It’s really getting hard to face the bunnies with meat on my breath. They all give me that cornered animal look that just tears my heart in two. ;_;

But don’t ask me to give up my pumpkin pie! ^_^ *slurp!*

Does anyone here make their own pie? (I mean, just throw the ingredients together, not chop up a pumpkin and cook it, etc.) I like it better that way, since I can leave out the clove, which I despise with a passion.

[Lightchick]

The problem with deep-fried turkey, as I understand it, is that it tends to explode, or the oil will spill over the edge of the pot and burst into flames! Not that I’ve ever had the guts to try it and experience this on my own…

Poor MM! It’s not Thanksgiving’s fault; it was the lamb!

I, for one, don’t do pie. LOVE pumpkin pie, but am scared senseless to make it. My style of cooking is to throw something in a pan, wait for it to nearly burn, shove the nearly-burnt dead thing in the oven to keep warm, and de-glaze the pan with the other half of the bottle of white wine (guess where the first half went?!). This is what I’ve learned from Food Network!

Pie doesn’t involve stovetop near-burning or de-glazing, so I’m out.

(I got a store-bought pecan pie for BF this year. Which I hate, but it’s his favorite…I’ll miss pumpkin…nummy!)

[jerseygirl]

Lamb shank splatters to exploding turkeys? Oi !

[Cassi&Charlie]

Exploding turkeys?! I should have read the whole post before reading yours Jerseygirl, LOL!

[bunnytowne]

I saw my Dad make one of those one year. Fried turkey.  I thought he was crazy I had never heard of it.  He had an outside deep fryer. HE light it it was gas and nearly singed off his hair.  The oil got to going and in went the bird. Tasted great the only downfall was the nearly singed hair dad had.   It tasted good.

Have you ever heard of turkenducken   it is a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken.   It is a southern dish I think Georgia.

I had only read of it in a fiction book I was reading.   What gets me is how do you stuff all those birds inside one another. 

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

I have heard of that BT!! Can’t remember where though…

[bunnytowne]

So it really is real whew.  but how do you get all those birds inside each other  hmmm.  that would be interesting.

One Xmas I made a choc pie and a pecan pie.  I had pecans left over so I just threw them all in.  Yep that was most definitely a pecan pie.  Was way too many pecans in it.   The chocolate pie never hardened so it was chocolate drink pie. 

[RabbitPam]

My mother has made Thanksgiving almost every year, but lately her back has been hurting her.

So she decided to make something different – reservations.

They’re picking me up in 20 minutes (oops – must change) and we’re going to some nice traditional restaurant where my bro and sis-in-law and aunt are meeting us there.

I picked up some coffee and a store bought pecan pie to have here if anyone wants to come back and visit with Sammykins.

[Princess*Smudge]

Bunnytowne – although there are a few others ways to do this a Turducken is usually done like this….

1. Cut the Duck and the Turkey and chicken open down the “spine” area lol I’m sure that has a different name..
2. You need to take out the ribs and stuff, everything but the drumsticks/wings basically in all 3 birds
3. Basically here you put each bird inside the other like a jacket and use twine to sew them up.
4. Then it takes a loooong time to cook it..

That the jist of it. I’ve never tried this myself my grandad is a chef and he’s done it, he also uses these skewers to hold the birds all together inside… Also there’s a recipe by Paula Deen on foodnetwork.com which is very similar, I’ve seen the episode where she makes it and it looks good… I just don’t think I’d ever try it lol

[Lightchick]

Yeah, Samantha, and she spreads layers of stuffing in between…looks like a very yummy instant heart-attack… Although, I don’t think I could get over the idea of carcass wrapped in carcas wrapped in carcass enough to eat it… I’m not a vegetarian, but sometimes I think too hard!

[KatnipCrzy]

There was an episode on Food Network for the show Diners, Drive Ins and Dives and it was about restaurants that served turkey- and one place was famous for their TurDuckHen (Turkey/Duck/Hen) and they actually showed how to make it- the deboning, layering of cajun stuffing and how to wrap it up and tie it.  It looked interesting- but too much work in my opinion- and it would make too much food- but I would order it from a restaurant to try it.

We saw one at the grocery store about 2 weeks ago- it was all assembled and frozen- but it was $60, not bad really for 15lbs.  But it is just my husband and I- and that is way too much “main dish”, and we are not real big on freezing leftovers.

http://www.fmfoods.com/product/fmf-louisiana-turducken-la–15-lbs-1001.cfm

I have had deep fried turkey once before and it was pretty good.  Again- not something we would ever do at home with just the 2 of us.  My husband and I grew up in the same town, started dating our senior year.  But that means all of our family is about 4 1/2 hours away.   My husbands works today, but tomorrow we are going to have our Thanksgiving meal together with a Honeybaked ham (those rock!)- he tried to buy a small half ham but he still ended up with about 8 lbs!!!  Guess we will be freezing some.

[jerseygirl]

I’m sorry folks, but a Turducken just makes me think……….food poisoning. How long would it take to cook? Barbie anyone??

[MimzMum]

I’ve also heard of turducken, but honestly I’ve had duck once and I’ll never eat it again. It’s just… nasty.

My sis-in-law is famous for cooking the turkey with the frozen giblets still inside. That must’ve been awful.

My turkey came with giblets, but no neck. 0_o How do you get a turkey with no neck?? That’ my favorite part of the gravy.

If you want instant heart attack, try Coma Hot Chocolate. You take something like 5 Hershey bars and a melt them in a pint of half & half. Between that and the turkey, you’ll be asleep for a week. ^_^

[bunnytowne]

Gosh heart attacks and sugar coma’s geeeesh.    Yeah I was thinking about food poisoning on that 3 in 1 thing too..   hmmm.  I love chocolate but gosh I think that is just too much ahhhh  Am getting a stomache ache just thinking about it.

I like duck  I love goose. Umm but it is so greasy goose is. My grandma used to cook a goose. yummm.  With some of that cajun dirty rice ummmm. 

  We just had the clubhouse gathering with tasty turkey sweet tatys with marshmellows  tasty potatoes   lots of dessert.   So no I am definitely not hungry.   I got quite a workout helping to clean up.   Carrying all the stuff on 5 tables to the sink and kitchen area. hehee.  Got my exercise.   Realized i missed my meds when I got home no wonder my back hurt heeheee. ooops.

I need to go brush Ruby gosh darn i wish she would get out of that cage. NOW Cotton is sitting on his lambswool cushion cleaning.  He is getting all prettied up for his date with Ruby tonite.   Ruby is crunching on her lettuce while Cotton dresses himself up.

Hmmm I have never seen him clean the very back elbow joint of the bottom of his back foot b4.  HE is really going at it too. Now he is getting the top. Nope back to the bottom again.

[RabbitPam]

Anyone remember the scene in “The Accidental Tourist” where the sister cooks a turkey at 150 degrees for several hours, and the guest (her brother’s editor) eats the first piece, risking poisoning, to prove he’s in love with her?

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