Notes on Thanksgiving

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tags: recipe personal thanksgiving multi-recipe holiday
creation date: 2022-11-22
mod date: 2022-11-22

Notes on Thanksgiving

Less a recipe, more ingredients and notes

Servings:
Prep Time: Minutes
Cook Time: Minutes
Total Time: Minutes

Ingredients

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Brine

Turkey

Turkey Glaze

Snow Peas

Carrots

Instructions

Brine

1. 52 hours before the turkey goes into the oven
2. In a pot add 1/2 broth and apple juice and all herbs and spices and heat until simmering
3. Let simmer about 20 minutes and turn off and let cool or put in fridge overnight
4. Once room temperature add to brining bag and add remaining broth and apple juice.
5. Add turkey to bag and add ice to have enough liquid to cover turkey. (should be approx 48 hrs before turkey goes into oven)
6. Seal bag up tightly.
7. Put in cooler or other container and surround with remaining ice. Put somewhere cold.
8. Turn bag/turkey in container at min every 12 hours during brining time.
9. Make sure turkey and liquid stay very cold by refreshing ice as often as needed.

Turkey Prep

1. 1 hour before turkey goes in the oven, take turkey out of the brine dry thoroughly and put in pan.
2. Mince garlic
3. Cut apples and onions into wedges
4. Cut Carrots and Celery into approx 6" chunks.
5. Mix Garlic, olive oil, mustard and any dry loose herbs.
6. Rub whole turkey inside and out with the mustard mixture.
7. Split apples/onions/carrots and celery into 2/3 and 1/3 bundles.
8. Fill turkey neck cavity with as much of the 1/3 bundle as will fit.
9. Fill turkey body cavity with the 2/3 bundle and any others from the 1/3 bundle that might be left over.
10. Put 1/2 the fresh herbs in each cavity.
11. Put probe thermometer in breast not touching a bone and one in thigh not touching the bone.
12. Preheat oven, when oven is ready and the time is right, put the turkey in the oven.

Glaze

1. After turkey is in the oven
2. Put all glaze ingredients in a medium saucepan
3. Warm on med-low heat until everything is melded together.
4. When turkey is about an hour out from being done you can start painting the turkey with the glaze.

Snow Peas

1. Blanch Green Beans or Snow peas
2. Sautee Mushrooms in sesame oil
3. Toss in Green Beans and teryaki sauce and cook just a smidge

Glazed Carrots

1. Peel carrots
2. Cut carrots on the bias.
3. Put a small amount of oil in a sauté pan and sauté carrots.
4. After cooking carrots drain,
5. Cook remaining ingredients together for the glaze, reduce and pour over carrots.

2022

Menu

Turkey
Mashed Potatoes
sweet potatoes (baked)
Some sort of green veggie
Bread

Other Food Items

Cranberry relish
Sharlotka
Pumpkin Pie
Turkey

Meat thermometer

Shopping List

• Chicken broth*

• Kosher salt*

• Garlic

• large jar (2 cups) Dijon Mustard

• 2 sweet potatoes

• 5 russet potatoes

• 5 wax potatoes

• Green beans*

• Apples - 3 sweet

• Oranges 4-6

• Fresh thyme

• Fresh Rosemary

• Paprika*

• Canned whip cream*

• Butter*

• heavy cream*

• butter milk*

• Powdered sugar*

• Brown Sugar*