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I don't do turkeys anymore. I find they're just dry, easy to do wrong, and not much of a crowd pleaser. I generally do a goose in place of a turkey. Easy to do well, and you can render enough fat to roast potatoes in for months and months afterwards.
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My turkey is never dry, but yeah, i find that I generally don't like turkey as much as I remember it from childhood. Nostalgia or something, it just doesn't live up to the memories. I wanted to do a standing rib roast but my oven just can't cook a roast for shit, it is all uneven. I think maybe in the future we will end up doing something different for holiday dinners. If it was my choice we would have a big, thick scary ass steak. No need to stick with convention, those old people are dead, fuck their food traditions.
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Try a goose or a duck. Look up Gordon Ramsey's recipe, and rotate it often in an uneven oven. It'll come out amazing.
Here is our oxtail stew recipe:
Coat each oxtail with flour, salt and pepper, fry in heavy based pot until brown all over and set aside. In same pot, saute diced carrots, celery and onions. Return the oxtail, add chicken or beef stock, a glass of red wine, 2 bay leaves, and a few sprigs of thyme. Cover and simmer for 3 hours while stirring the bottom of the pan every half hour. Add more stock if it gets too dry. During the last 30 mins, add chopped carrots and potatoes (in this case I subbed mushrooms for potatoes). Season to taste.
Some people prefer to add the carrots and potatoes for 3 hours they get a mushy thicker soup, I prefer to eat them whole. Served with steamed chinese spinach. Steam spinach until tender, squeeze fresh lemon, salt and pepper to taste. The Sweet potato just roast off in the oven for 1 hour.
My go to blueberry pie recipe:
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/blueberry_pie/
for the crust:
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes...s_pate_brisee/
I messed around trying to do a lattice top, but actually prefer the simple top more. the crust is damn tasty.
Tried this myself and went a little lighter on the Adobo cause I don't like the flavor of it to get too wild. Would definitely make again, A quality.
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Yeah, I have no explanation for it. But that pie was the only thing we ate that our kids didn't also eat, and the kids didn't get sick. I was thinking maybe the shortening I used to grease the pan had turned, I mean the apples weren't super fresh but they looked and smelled fine. It is a mystery that I don't want to investigate. It is no fun taking care of a 3 year old and a 2 year old while you have food poisoning.
Noodleface
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I made a pretty sweet beef pot roast last night. Slow cooked it in the crock pot for like 8 or 9 hours. Meat was so tender and awesome. It started to get less pink than I really wanted, is there a good method to time how long to cook a piece of meat like that? It was pretty huge, but I didn't want to open the crockpot prematurely. I would've preferred a nice Medium on it.
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I find a good way to know the temperature on a roast is by touching it - a certain firmness will let you know it has reached medium, and so forth. It takes practice, but next time you're cooking one keep pressure testing it with your finger with a thermometer in it. Watch how it changes to the touch as it gets more done.
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Works great when you're grilling chicken breast. No more need for thermometres or cutting into it.
Here is our basic vegetarian Lasagna recipe:
Pan fry or roast off veggies (eggplant, zucchini, red peppers, mushrooms). Prepare a tomato sauce (celery, carrot, onion, tomatos, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme and add chilli if you like it spicy). Prepare bechamel-(use any classic bechamel recipe) start with a roux, add milk, parmesan and some spices. Season the tomato sauce with salt and pepper and a bit of sugar in a pan, layer the tomato sauce, lasagna sheets, bechamel and veggies, continue to layer but save some bechamel for the top and add Parmesan cheese. bake in oven according to lasagna box instructions.
Adebisi
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Got this from a friend the other day
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