How Will You Cook This Year's Turkey?

November 17, 2008

25 Comments

Alrighty - Go to the supermarket and get a brown paper bag. Season, rub, smear, brine or just lots of salt and pepper on your bird. Rub the inside of the top of the bag with butter after you've put your prepped turkey in the bag. Fold the bag closed and cook appropriate time for the weight of your bird. You will have a beautifully cooked turkey with crisp golden brown skin. Enjoy!

partysugar 4 years 26 weeks

topthat: have you browsed around on YumSugar? Here's how to pick out a turkey, how to roast a turkey, and how to carve a turkey. Also check out my tips for hosting your first Thanksgiving. Hope that helps! ps. this year my dad and I are brining, rubbing, basting, roasting, and glazing the turkey.

ilanac13 4 years 26 weeks

i'm a bit anxious about thanksgiving this year since i've always gone to my mom's house and she knows that i'm a vegetarian so she makes something different but this year we're going to my fiance's house and his mom know that i am a veggie but she's always challenged to make a dish for me. it's going to be interesting.

lisabarn 4 years 26 weeks

Ever since the oven broke Thanksgiving morning a few years ago we Bar-b-que. The oven is now fixed but we discovered we love it bar-b-qued and it is easy.

jcwest47 4 years 26 weeks

I think I'm going to order a smoked turkey this year, although hosting Thanksgiving is still up in the air. I hate not knowing what's going on yet!

insanitypepper 4 years 26 weeks

We brine and grill a turkey breast.

kia 4 years 26 weeks

I do a slathering of maple syrup, butter, and spices under the skin and roast.

wackdoodle 4 years 26 weeks

I am very concerned about whether my sister will be able to enjoy. letting alone eat anything I prepare for Thanksgiving. So I will just simply roast the turkey with just salt and pepper, until the bird is golden brown. Everything I cook this year will be as fresh and simple as possible because she's so nauseated and tired. This chemo is kicking her azz so bad that I want her to be able to get some nourishment and hopefully have the desire to eat more later on.

bluepuppybites 4 years 26 weeks

I would love to have a smoker, I absolutely love smoked meat.

hanako66 4 years 26 weeks

I am deep frying one, and smoking another...I have a single oven and need it available for my side dishes and this way hub is responsible for the turkey!

afordster 4 years 26 weeks

We usually have two turkey- a deep fried and injected also a brined turkey. This year there are proposals for a brined and grilled turkey and then replacing the fried with a smoked turkey. but hey- they all sound good to me. I like turkey.

mtiger 4 years 26 weeks

We are roasting ours this year, but I love a good fried turkey!

totonlaura 4 years 26 weeks

Simply roast with lots of veggies!!!

luxington 4 years 26 weeks

I just roast mine. A farm fresh, free range turkey doesn't need much else.

SillyGirl 4 years 26 weeks

Rub and Roast. I always do an herb rub or nut rub and this year i am doing a nut rub. The key to getting perfectly tender meat is to really loosen the skin up slowly, and then rub the butter rub onto the meat for a long time. I always make a joke that Tom the turkey didnt know he was getting a day at the spa before dinner because i really do "massage the meat" for a good 30 minutes. The irony is I dont eat my own bird since I am veggie. But apparently (and from what i can remember years ago) I make a really tender and juicy one.

mswender 4 years 26 weeks

I am not cooking on Thanksgiving, but usually cook the weekend before or after, but I will be doing a salt-herb rub on my turkey then roasting it covered with cheese cloth and basting with butter until the last hour, taking off the cover and basting with the yummy juices. I think the cheese cloth/old t shirt is the key to juicy delicious turkey. Also the salt rub works fantastic.

topthat 4 years 26 weeks

This year will be my first experience eating a Thanksgiving turkey! I have no idea how I am going to make one or eat it for that matter but I am excited. I was a vegetarian for 17 years (since I was 6 years old). I have started a blog about it. http://www.spokanefoodblog.com/category/recovering-vegetarian/ If you have any ideas for the very best turkey, how to pick out a turkey, how to cook a turkey, how to cut a turkey, please let me know. Thanks!

skigurl 4 years 26 weeks

the men in my family love to deep fry the turkey! they don't do it normally at anyone's house, but whenever a turkey holiday is held at the cottage, they're out there deep frying like it's their job! it's the one time they actually want to help!

pwrdbyme 4 years 26 weeks

Making the Turducken

Liss 4 years 26 weeks

I just roast it. I can't wait for Thanksgiving. :drool:

doogirl 4 years 26 weeks

I'm going to my MIL's house, and she roasts her turkey. I've never done a turkey, it always seems daunting to me, but I think I'll try the brine and roast method this year! I'm 33 years old, I should know how to make a turkey!

tlsgirl 4 years 26 weeks

We're not making it this year, but it's normally brine, then roast. It makes the turkey so much more tender.

verily 4 years 26 weeks

If I were doing the turkey, I'd brine and roast it.

Soniabonya 4 years 26 weeks

roasting it. that's the only way i know how. :shrug: besides, the other methods don't sound to appetizing or sound dangerous. the idea of deep frying a turkey just scares me.