Do you really like to eat turkey at Thanksgiving

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Being from Maryland and having a feeling for the water, it is traditional in my family to have wild duck with oyster/cornbread stuffing. In years when hunting the wild duck is banned, turkey is sublime! Thanksgiving is less about the food and more about the fellowship we bring to our shared family table!
 

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We eat turkey all the time. It's nothing special at our house, and we don't celebrate holidays. Birthdays yes, holidays no.
 

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Turkey,,,, mmmmmmm. I looooove turkey. I'm a turkey freak. I love the white meat, I love the dark meat, and I love the skin... I even gnaw on the bones.... When I was a vegetarian for five years the thing I missed most was turkey at Thanksgiving.

Now, I HATE cranberry sauce that comes out of a can. I like the fresh stuff ONLY.

And I HATE HATE HATE sweet potatoes.... YUCK!

But gimme more stuffing, mashed russet potatoes, gravy, and lots o' turkey....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
 
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We only live a few miles from Plymouth Massachusetts where the first Thanksgiving took place.We love turkey but most of all,family coming together to celebrate.
 

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I love turkey, but I will agree that often it's not as moist as it can be. I believe this is mainly due to it being cooked the same way as a smaller bird, but longer because often people get such a big turkey. If you really want a great turkey, try one of the old-breed free-range turkeys. They aren't bred for such massive breast meat, which is usually so lean yet so bulky that the time needed to cook through it leaves it dry. The older breeds are more proportionate (the modern variety used for over 90% of the turkeys bought has so much breast meat they have to be artificially inseminated -- the males can't get their parts to meet the females') and that means a juicier turkey. Another trick for the modern broad-breasted turkeys is to lay strips of thick-cut bacon over the breast and legs. This gets rid of the need to repeatedly baste while cooking.

This year, my roommate and I are cooking for 16 people. I'm doing the sides and the desserts, he's doing the traditional Italian pre-dinner, and his mom is bringing the turkey (I can't fit a 25 pound bird in my oven). On our table will be diced butternut squash in a pumpkin-seed pesto, roasted root veggies with a honey glaze, roasted brussel sprouts with a dijon sauce and panko crumbs, green beans in an herb butter, sliced baked sweet potatoes with a meringue topping, stuffing made from toasted pumpkin bread croutons, and pork tenderloin with a cranberry sauce gravy. For dessert, I'm making chocolate-swirled pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin pear streudel, banana butterscotch cake, a mocha cake with coffee cream cheese icing, and a chocolate truffle cake with strawberry glaze. I don't know what my roommate is making for the pre-dinner, but it's probably baked ziti and anti-paste and salads. And all weekend, we'll be jogging.
 

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With Thanksgiving in a couple of days, how many will be eating turkey and enjoying it. ME! I love the big, dumb bird. :smile: My mom makes hers with a crabmeat/herb stuffing. It is delish! For me I wold prefer to eat something else - I don't really like turkey - it is always cooked too dry and then puts me to sleep. It's dry because it has been prepared by someone who can't cook. My mom is an excellent cook and has never in my memory cooked a dry bird. Lasagna would be nice.
When prepared properly (i.e. by my mom) our Thanksgiving consists of: turkey, the afore mentioned stuffing, rice, giblet gravy, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, chitterlings, spiral cut ham, baked ziti, cranberry sauce, yeast rolls. Dessert is usually: sweet potato pie, homemade ice cream, German chocolate cake, apple pie, devils food cake.

My mom is the only one that I know of on her side of the family that can cook well. Her sister cooks the turkey in a brown and serve bag, and her niece once tried to cook a 22 pound turkey in her microwave. We are eating at a different cousins house this year, so I have no idea what to expect.
 

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My mouth waters for Thai lettuce wraps dipped in hot oil sauce/peanut sauce. Or, something far-eastern and spicy...:wink:
Mmmm, goi cuon! I love those so much I make them at home, as often as I can. On a day-to-day basis, most of my cooking tends toward a Vietnamese style! I also make a killer tomyum soup.