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Post by papaof2 on Nov 26, 2021 14:31:26 GMT -6
Couldn't find a smoked turkey or smoked turkey breast two weeks before Thanksgiving - except for Honeybaked and similar ready-to-eat at $100 and up - so I went with a Honeysuckle frozen turkey breast and an online recipe for smoking it while cooking on a gas grill. Found the applewood chips on the charcoal aisle at a large grocery store - Target, Lowe's and HD all said online that the nearest store had it but none of them did - so much for accurate inventory records :-(
Final result? Multiple comments of "moist" and "tender" and one request for "more smoke flavor" - not bad for my first attempt at "smoking" turkey on the gas grill ;-)
The "more smoke flavor" is easy - I can just double up on the amount of wood chips used (chips soaked overnight in water, then wrapped in heavy duty aluminum foil, three slits in the top of each foil pack to let the smoke out, the foil packs on top of the flame spreaders in the gas grill). My choice of wearing old clothes while cooking and then changing before everyone arrived was good - the shirt had a strong scent of apple smoke hours after the cooking was done - it's in the wash today.
Our daughter and son-in-law are spending the afternoon here making gingerbread cookies. Nice when your adult children want to spend time with the old folks - and scarfing up the leftovers from yesterday ;-)
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Post by 9idrr on Nov 26, 2021 20:33:23 GMT -6
Sounds as though it was just the Thanksgiving you and the missus deserved.
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Post by papaof2 on Nov 26, 2021 21:40:49 GMT -6
And we have the gingerbread cookies we decorated to snack on ;-)
I'd offer to share but they'd be gingerbread crumbs by the time UPS, USPS or FedEx got them to you.
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Post by bluefox2 on Nov 30, 2021 20:21:25 GMT -6
We lucked out also. Our oldest granddaughter just bought a house. She and her brother decided that they were going to do Thanksgiving. So all we had to do was show up, eat turkey and have some drinks and play with the dog. We even brought home leftover turkey. didn't even have to help with the cleanup
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Post by papaof2 on Dec 9, 2021 0:32:01 GMT -6
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Post by gipsy on Dec 9, 2021 7:49:38 GMT -6
Cool
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