Posted on 11/08/2017 4:11:15 PM PST by Jamestown1630
Sometimes at Thanksgiving, on our local news shows, they do segments about food banks, churches, and other places who prepare big Thanksgiving events for the elderly and others who may be alone and have nobody to share the holiday with. I’ve always thought that if I were alone, it would be a lot of fun to do that - either as a guest, or as a volunteer.
You never know who you’ll meet, or where just doing something very different might lead.
A friend in Texas gave me ‘Birds and Blooms’ one year, knowing that I’m a ‘twitcher’. Very nice magazine.
Do you brine wet, or dry? We did wet for years, and then tried dry and won’t go back. But we do ours in the oven.
Sounds delicious! Would be good at Christmas too.
Those are nice! I have some of the Spode Christmas ones, but no Thanksgiving :-(
We have done the brine both ways, but my wife likes wet.
what size Traeger?
For a dozen years or so we were hosting a lot of family dinners with 8 to 16 people so we went nuts.
It is the Texas Elite with 646 sq in of grill area. I also have a wing rack that I can put on top of the grill to give about 3X the area for wings or ribs.
I love brining fish and smoking them on Apple but I have failed to get a good Traeger — I just use a pill shaped charcoal smoker and its a lot of work.
Really nice. Ironstone and birds.
I also have a charcoal smoker grill, but living at 8.500 ft elevation it is difficult to get charcoal to burn with enough heat to cook well except for just grilling hamburgers or steaks, certainly not for smoking a turkey. The Traeger has a thermostat and I find I need to run slightly higher temps than recipes call for because the thin air has less thermal mass and cooks slower.
You’re a person after my heart ;-)
I’ll buy something just because it’s beautiful, regardless that it’s dedicated to one use per year. Not practical; but some impractical things can be important - in a way, they are ‘hallowing’, and influence further than their obvious material significance would suggest.
(I bought a huge, rustic, metal Jack-o-Lantern last week, because it seemed to say traditional ‘Hallowe’en’ more than anything I’d ever seen. Can’t use it until next year, now; but at least I got it at 75% off ;-)
My husband comes from a large family. Last Thanksgiving all of his siblings and their families made it-over 70 people. We were all experiencing that “good tired” by the end of the day. It’s probably the last time that will be ever happen so I’m grateful his parents had such a good time.
May say to heck with it and bake one anyway.
Spode has a Woodlands series centered around Birds (the one we have) but also one on animals, one on turkeys, one on bird dogs etc. see Macys
My folks saw what we were doing as we put it together and my mom bought some serving pieces in addition to those we had. It is probably the largest of all the sets my wife has collected over her lifetime.
There is so much to be thankful for this year. Both our healths are better, we had a great garden this year - the best ever, hubby retired in January so we spent the whole season together working together in the garden and doing other outside chores. It's been great. Many blessings, including our Freeper friends.
We actually bring out the Woodlands set and use it from the end of September on to near Christmas when the Spode Christmas set comes out. And should be have a game bird dinner, bang, its always in the closet.
We had about six other sets but we gave two to children as wedding gifts. We combined two households twenty years ago and both sets of parents are now gone leaving various items we filled out from “Replacements.”
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