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Title: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: hiroshima on December 10, 2006, 02:44:34 PM
I soaked it in brine for one hour, and am roasting it breast down, on a layer of salt, the top coated with a layer of salt, for 4-5 hours at 325F.  For those unfamiliar with salt-roasting meat, the salt creates a hardened layer during cooking which seals in the juices and prevents the meat from drying out.  When done, the salt crust is broken off and discarded.

I will soon have a lot of meat on my hands!

Once it cools I'll separate the meat from the bones, and tomorrow I'll make soup from the bones.

Does anyone have a transporter that is compatible with mine?  If so, I'll beam some turkey over to you. :)

I have gone from being 90% vegan, to 70% vegan, btw.  I'm also trying to go sugar-free.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Peter on December 10, 2006, 02:47:07 PM
How do you calculate your percentage of veganness?
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: hiroshima on December 10, 2006, 03:01:19 PM
I'm estimating, based on what I've eaten in recent days.  I'm not breastfeeding anymore :'( so I've had to alter how I eat... I no longer get 500 free calories to manufacture into milk.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: DirtDawg on December 10, 2006, 03:19:12 PM
Shima knows what to do with a turkey!

We eat a lot of turkey, at our house. It's the best meat value, by far and it's considered quite heathful. My favorite, however is not as highly recommended except for flavor. I love smoked turkey! Smoked turkey makes wierd soup, though.

Too bad my transporter is down.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Litigious on December 10, 2006, 03:22:18 PM
We don't eat much turkey in Sweden, except for the smoked slices on sandwiches. Chicken is by far bird nr 1 here. To Christmas we eat whole ham, cooked and roasted with mustard in the oven.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Scrapheap on December 10, 2006, 03:25:19 PM
.......I'm also trying to go sugar-free.

Why are you trying the sugar free thing?? Is it callories?? (carbs in general) or some other reason??
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Peter on December 10, 2006, 03:26:34 PM
I eat lots of turkey mince; it's very cheap compared to other meats.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: El on December 10, 2006, 04:02:14 PM
I just had the brilliant idea to artifically manufacture triptophan and sell it as a sleep aid.  I looked it up.

It's called Tryptan.

It does more than help sleep, it helps SAD and depressino.

I must stop researching because I can see this becoming an unhealthy perseveration.  It's too interesting.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Peter on December 10, 2006, 04:44:43 PM
I just had the brilliant idea to artifically manufacture triptophan and sell it as a sleep aid.  I looked it up.

It's called Tryptan.

It does more than help sleep, it helps SAD and depressino.

I must stop researching because I can see this becoming an unhealthy perseveration.  It's too interesting.

It's annoying when people steal your business ideas before you've had them, isn't it?
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: purposefulinsanity on December 10, 2006, 04:59:19 PM
I eat lots of turkey mince; it's very cheap compared to other meats.

I prefer turkey mince too, imo it tastes much nicer than beef mince and I can't stand lamb.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Mr Smith on December 10, 2006, 05:25:56 PM
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm turkey.

I only ever have it at Christmas, and damn, thats a good feed.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: hiroshima on December 10, 2006, 06:35:44 PM
.......I'm also trying to go sugar-free.

Why are you trying the sugar free thing?? Is it callories?? (carbs in general) or some other reason??

I am worried about my teeth... with every baby a woman has, her teeth get worse.  And I've had five!

I also have joint pain in my wrist and I've heard being sugar free can help that.

The turkey came out great, btw!
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: hiroshima on December 10, 2006, 06:36:23 PM
Shima knows what to do with a turkey!

We eat a lot of turkey, at our house. It's the best meat value, by far and it's considered quite heathful. My favorite, however is not as highly recommended except for flavor. I love smoked turkey! Smoked turkey makes wierd soup, though.

Too bad my transporter is down.

Yup, I think most people don't realize you need to soak poultry in brine... I should have soaked it overnight.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Peter on December 10, 2006, 06:42:58 PM
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm turkey.

I only ever have it at Christmas, and damn, thats a good feed.

I eat about 350g a day.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: DirtDawg on December 10, 2006, 07:56:14 PM
Shima knows what to do with a turkey!.

Yup, I think most people don't realize you need to soak poultry in brine... I should have soaked it overnight.

I learned that from my grandmother. They raised their own. Whenever I can, I buy poultry direct from the farmers, though. It saves them and me money and it's fresher than you can get in any store.

Brining is important for the fact that it coagulates some of the excess blood, supposedly, which conserves moisture during cooking. I soak all poultry and foul in brine.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Nomaken on December 10, 2006, 08:11:17 PM
I don't get any opportunities anymore to eat a real fresh turkey anymore.  A lot of good memories though.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Peter on December 10, 2006, 08:13:18 PM
Could you cook one for yourself this year?
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Nomaken on December 10, 2006, 08:15:05 PM
Nah, it would be a waste, i couldnt eat all that.  Also, I can't cook.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: McGiver on December 10, 2006, 09:28:40 PM

I will soon have a lot of meat on my hands!


i felt that it was my responsibility to point this out.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: DirtDawg on December 10, 2006, 10:15:59 PM
Nah, it would be a waste, i couldnt eat all that.  Also, I can't cook.

It's easy to cook. Also, turkeys are available in different sizes and you can even buy just the breast or drumsticks if you want. It also freezes very well if you cook more than you can eat in a few days. There is no excuse. :)
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Nomaken on December 10, 2006, 10:36:03 PM
It isnt the turkey itself i am remincing of, it is the big turkey baked in an oven, eating at a table with friends and family, the whole experience.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: DirtDawg on December 10, 2006, 10:53:04 PM
Oh, the dreaded, whole famn damily get together ... those aren't for me.

For some reason the week before a family get together, I get a little stressed and once it's over and I can regroup it takes a couple of days to decompress. There's another one of those miserable events approaching.

I like my family, even my in-laws are fine, but it's just too much all at once to have them all in the same house. The thing that saved me over Thanksgiving is that there were three babies born to the family this year and I got to spend a lot of time with little cute, curious people, instead of big, noisy, agressive, stubborn people.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Nomaken on December 10, 2006, 10:57:42 PM
I was so out of touch with what my family talked about, they were good experiences.  We're talking, one 10 year old, two 40 year olds, and two 60 year olds.  I had no fucking clue what they were talking about, my job was to listen, eat food, and smile occasionally. 
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Litigious on December 11, 2006, 06:10:40 AM
My undiagnosed AS dad isn't going to celebrate Christmas or New Years eve with us this year. He's away working in another part of the country of 1½ month. Conveniantly he will also not have to celebrate my brother's, my grandmother's or my own birthday. That's aspieness over the top - and in denial.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: DirtDawg on December 11, 2006, 11:48:56 AM


Why is he in denial? (http://i10.tinypic.com/452rhwl.gif)
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Litigious on December 11, 2006, 11:59:30 AM


Why is he in denial? (http://i10.tinypic.com/452rhwl.gif)

He probably thinks it's shameful to have AS.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Peter on December 11, 2006, 12:16:43 PM
I know a girl who moved to Sweden from Russia.  She has HFA, but her parents won't admit it, since the have the Orthadox Church thing of disabilities being a punishment from god, combined with the cultural background of people with mental issues being locked up in institutions in Russia.  She's finally getting her life sorted out a bit, but her parents seem to have done enormous damage to her already due to their attitudes and their own problems.
Title: Re: I am cooking a turkey
Post by: Litigious on December 11, 2006, 12:18:25 PM
My father isn't religious, it's just an attitude from the older generation. He's more or less in denial of my AS as well...