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Need help....with the TURKEY My turkey never turns out as good as my grandmas always were!!!! I have a 13 1/2 pound honeysuckle----someone please give me some tips. We are going with my inlaws to their American Legion early Thursday then to my moms(shhh!!! she is not into cooking and does instant potaotes and canned gravey etc...) So Friday i am making thanksgiving dinner for our family. This year i would like the turkey to turn out perfect.....would appreciate any tips |
Usually there is directions on the label and I usually just follow them. Alton Brown on the food network says you don't even have to baste them. Towards the end I usually make a tent out of foil and put it over the turkey so it doesn't get too dry. Good luck |
You can stuff your turkey with a cornbread stuffing mix. and follow the directions on the box for mixing it up to keep the turkey moist. If you don't like stuffing you can put potatoes and carrots in the cavity for moisture. Then I use one of the large plastic turkey roasting bags. The turkey always comes out cooked evenly and moist with a nice golden outer skin. You do have to put some flour in the bag and shake it up to dust the inside so that it won't stick to the turkey. This also really helps with clean up in the roaster. |
A friend of mine swears by the Reynolds wrap oven bags. I'm cooking my first turkey this year, so that's what I'm using!!! |
I always use the oven bags and it turns out moist every time! |
This is what I do. I hate basting and don't like dry turkey, so it works great for me. Lots of flavor too. I don't cook my stuffing in the turkey. I get an oven bag for a turkey. Wash the bird inside and out. Pat it dry. Take some salt and rub the inside of the turkey with it. Cut an orange and a lemon in half put inside the bird. Cut an onion in quarters and a couple pieces of celery in half. Put those inside the bird as well. Take some softened butter and mix with thyme and sage. Rub it on the top of the breast. I prefer to put it under the skin on the breast meat. Put about 1 tablespoon of flour in your oven bag and shake to coat the bag. put your bird in the bag cut small slit in the top of bag, and place in a baking dish. Bake at 350 until done. No mess, no fuss and never a dry bird. I used to cook mine in an oiled brown paper bag before the new oven bags came out. The new bags are much less messy and who knows now what they use to make brown paper bags. Opps my age is showing......... |
I wish i could help you but i need help myself lol |
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I have learn that nothing we make turns out as good as our Grandma's made. Just as my girls think my mothers their grandmother's cooking is the bests!! I do have down her cornbread dressing to a T! No tips on the turkey, we are going to smoke ours on the pit and bake a ham in the oven. We have Thanksgiving for my side of the family and my husbands side of the family out our house every year. I can't wait for Thursday! Then Friday we go pick out our Christmas tree and put up all our Christmas stuff................SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!! |
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