American Thanksgiving is around the corner. Are you ready? I am beginning to prepare for next week already. Focus (remember when we did these?): all things Thanksgiving. Food and recipes, decor, prep, travel, bitching about family. My free turkey in the freezer. I think I will spatchcock it and cook it on the traeger. The new recipe this year on the menu is pumpkin brulee. We will also have stuffin muffins, company potatoes, asparagus, cranberry sauce with the ridges, pumpkin cheesecake, and Caribbean fudge pie. What are all you idiots getting into next week? Happy early Thanksgiving!
I have a small test turkey brining right now. I spatchcocked it, and am now soaking it, and will dry it off and apply a nice rub tomorrow. It'll cook on the Yoder tomorrow for dinner, and then be used for turkey soup. Making a soup out of a smoked turkey is amazing... it just adds so much more flavour. I've also got a frozen spiral cut ham thawing out in the beer fridge right now in prep for later this week. That, too, will be smoked, and a cranberry orange glaze will be applied. That's a test run for closer to Christmas, and will be served with scalloped potatoes.
We're traveling for the first time in several years, back home to spend it with my Mom. The kid and I are taking our dirtbikes and hopefully riding friend's tracks Friday and Saturday. I think Friday or Saturday is the first day they're slaughtering hogs on the farm, hopefully I can avoid getting pressed into helping. I just want to eat with my mom, and go do fun stuff with my best friends I don't get to see enough, not get back into farming.
Grandson is staying in LA this year so we're grabbing an early dinner with the in-laws and then not a Got-Damn thing. Other than my memorial trip to Oregon in Sept, this is my first four day break since I've gone back to work.