I know I'm terrible about updating this, but I may be the only person who sees it, so I guess I'll please myself! I did feel the need to write about our experiences this Thanksgiving.
DHB, SonofMine and I had a pretty quiet holiday, other than almost not getting to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
We love frying turkeys at Thanksgiving, but the last several years we have gone to WV for the holiday because of our Moms. DHB's Mom passed in 2010 and my Mom passed in February, so there wasn't any reason to travel this year.
So, while DHB cleaned up the Fryer, I bought 2 fresh turkeys from the local butcher, we measured oil, got everything ready, DHB started heating the oil...... and found out the thermometer wasn't working.
Temperature is very very important when frying turkeys, so at 4:00 p.m., we were faced with cooking one of the turkeys in the oven. That wouldn't have been too bad except I've used self-basting turkey bags for nearly 30 years before we started frying turkeys. We're talking around 1979! Of course, we didn't have any turkey bags, since it has been 6 or 7 years since I cooked a turkey that way.
So on Thanksgiving, with no place to buy a new thermometer or cooking bags, we dug out the roaster I haven't used since 1978 and cooked a turkey. The only thing that saved the day is that we have a stove in our basement as well as the kitchen. It was DHB's Mom's stove, but when we moved her into a place with a better stove a few years ago,we moved her old one into our basement kitchen
So, instead of cooking a turkey for 4-5 hours, THEN doing all the side dishes and not eating until midnight or later, we put the turkey downstairs to cook and I was able to do the side dishes in the kitchen oven and we got to eat around 8:30 instead of midnight.
Of course, during all of that, my rolls raised no fewer than 3 times and barely resembled rolls by the time I got them baked. They still tasted good though.
We finally got the 2nd turkey fried Sunday after Thanksgiving and it was wonderful!
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
