Happy Thanksgiving to all you GotMeaders!

[epetkus]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!

We had some family and friends over. Deep-fried turkey, homemade ravioli with choice of wine-infused Marinara sauce or a shallot cream tomato Madeira sauce, fried corn patties, cranberry relish, pies, mixed fruit, etc.

From our family to yours, happy thanksgiving!

Eric

 

[fatbloke]

Ok, so here's another TG based ???

Now, on the satellite TV, we get buried in cooking programmes, some of which focus on how others "do" stuff that's similar to how it's "done" here, while some of those programmes also show us how other countries/regions cook their local produce (not all of which can be obtained here).

Plus they sometimes show that influences, particularly food, change. For example, our crimbo meat was, historically, goose, though the ease of farming turkey means that, that is what most have.

More specifically, it would be "Roasted" turkey.

Now I seem to recall a programme that showed that in different regions of the US, both the TG, and crimbo celebration, some will roast the turkey, while others (the "south" I understood), will fry it, using a specially designed "deep fryer", that's basically just a normal deep fryer but can be the size of an oil tanker, to accommodate such a large fowl as a turkey.

Is that a correct understanding ? or is there a specific method of cooking the turkey that's considered "more traditional" than any other, or is it just down to where you were brought up and the method usually used in that area ?????

regards

fatbloke

 

[AToE]

Some people deep fry them up here too, I don't know if it's a southern thing or if it's just a newfangled thing. I'd imagine oven roasted being the traditional way in most places.

 

[wayneb]

Deep frying of turkey originated in the Southern US, but came to more general popularity about 10-15 years ago. While it is considered by many to be the "only" way to prepare a turkey (and with the delicious crispy skin that results from proper deep frying, I can understand that perspective), dry roasting (i.e. in an open topped roasting pan) in an oven is the most "traditional" and is still the most popular way to prepare the bird. (Statistical info courtesy of the American Turkey Federation, BTW -- and I'll bet you didn't know there even was such an entity, did you?) ;D

 

[fatbloke]

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American Turkey
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Cor, bloody hell, whoever thought that one up, obviously didn't have any understanding of a sense of sarcasm or irony did they ???

I'd have thought it would have been better to have come up with something that keeps those two words distinctly separate to avoid lots of jokes and merriment that can be had at the expense of the US (specifically by us "johnny foreigners" ).

Hey ho! As long as everyone had a good TG, that's all that matters.

regards

fatbloke

p.s. Oh and any left over turkey and you should all be googling for recipes for "turkey curry", so you can all enjoy Indian influenced wondrously excellent food (either served with rice, or Naan bread )