Thanksgiving feast

Giving Thanks

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. This one was pretty much like the last several. We cooked the turkey per Alton Brown’s instructions and it turned out great again. I didn’t produce much in the way of great photos. The actual meal was a little fragmented because we didn’t get the food on the table until just before the Hogs started playing. We served buffet style and so didn’t load down the table with bowls and serving dishes filled with feastables, which would have made the pictures better.

Turkey Days

We were so full of the Thanksgiving spirit we had to put on two full-on dinners. Gina’s Mom and Dad came down for a Wednesday night dinner and then we had a bigger dinner on Saturday with my parents and sisters and a few friends.

For some reason I didn’t take a photo of everyone around the table at the second dinner, but I did get a before and after shot of the succulent turkey I prepared using the Alton Brown brining and roasting technique.

Turkey Day

We hosted a Thanksgiving feast for Gina’s parents, my Dad and my Grandma, the star of an earlier post. I used a brining recipe from Alton Brown of Good Eats fame and it turned out marvelous. It was the third or fourth time I’ve brined a turkey and it’s the only way to go. In my experience, roasted turkey is generally dry and unappealing. With the brining method the juices flow out of the bird like the Nile River when you hit it with the electric knife.