Here’s a picture of the turkey from Thanksgiving taken by my FriendWhoCallsMeMartha. I’m very fond of cooking for large groups because it gives me a chance to try new dishes. I go with a CYA approach which involves cooking enormous numbers of recipes so that if one of them doesn’t work no one goes hungry. In this case I think there were 10 things on the table for 10 people… maybe overkill but everyone looked blissful at the end, and I didn’t have to pull my hair out over the soggy weird polenta sticks.
I was very proud of the turkey, I brined it following my bizarre practice of finding 2 similar recipes (in this case I tapped Alton Brown and Cooks Illustrated) and morphing them into a mutant fusion, creating something totally, completely (well sort of) my own. I bought a funky little ceramic trash can labelled ‘RUBBISH’ for the brining because I didn’t have anything big enough and also because I thought it was cute.
I’ll share my recipe because it took me a long time to come up with, so maybe one of you can profit from my research.
The recipe kinda went like this (for a 20 pound turkey).
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