On 8/21/2017 5:18 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 9:16:29 PM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 08:45:22 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 9:37:11 AM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>>>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>> What's on your menu?
>>>>> Roast turkey (on the gas grill), boiled potatoes, and tossed salad.
>>>> I've roasted various cuts of meat on the grill, mostly
>>>> spited/rotisseried pork loins, but roasting a turkey on the grill is
>>>> something I never tried. What size turkey?
>>> Maybe 14 pounds. Spatchcocked, it took about 90 minutes.
>>>
>>>> Since the grill was already hot I would have grilled the potatoes,
>>>> I've done that often.
>>> I didn't specify, but these were new potatoes, about the size of grapes.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>> Sounds very good. Did you have company... a 14 pound turkey is a lot
>> of meat. I usually roast a 14 pounder for Thanksgiving for the two of
>> us but we have a passle of cats who put a big dent in it, they
>> actually eat more than we eat. If we had to eat turkey ourselves I'd
>> likely roast a chicken. I only roast a turkey for Thanksgiving
>> because of tradition, but I much prefer chicken. The cats would
>> gobble up a chicken same as a turkey.
> No, we froze the dark meat and turned the carcass and white meat into
> stock. This was a turkey I'd got the day after Thanksgiving very
> cheaply with the intention of turning it into stock.
>
> I believe my husband prefers turkey to chicken. Certainly roast
> chicken provokes a "meh" reaction from him, whereas turkey gets
> me a lot of "thank you". I prefer grilled chicken breast over
> roasted chicken or turkey.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

Â* Thanks for the reminder . I have 2 turkeys out in the freezer , if I
pull one now it'll be ready for the smoker (cherry or mesquite , a
quandary !) by Wednesday evening . The wife sez the other nightÂ* "Yer
doing a turkey , why not do a butt too ? Don't take no more charcoal
...." So I'll pull one of those too - tomorrow . Any we don't eat in a
day or 3 is going into a vacuum freezer bag - weighed portions since I
got a (used) triple beam scale as a gift. I'm hooked on this foodsaver
vacuum sealer thing , got it as a gift a couple of years ago and forgot
I had it . And the turkey carcass will be simmered for stock , haven't
decided how to preserve that .

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Â* Snag