Last week I found turkeys for .69 a pound. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I threw one of those suckers in the cart. Then later that night had second thoughts and went back for another! $9 for 13 pounds of meat!
I froze one of the turkeys and thawed the other in the fridge. Yesterday we had dinner. We rocked it like it was Thanksgiving but it was better because there was no stress! Turkey, potatoes, stuffing, peas…. We ate to our heart’s content. Then I packed up a container for my aunt, her son and his girlfriend. Then I proceeded to pick two more quart sized bags of meat off. This is my plan:
meal 1 - turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, peas
meal 2 - turkey gravy (with fresh chopped veggies in it) and biscuits.
mpanadas (replacing the chicken with turkey as a bold move — we’ll see what happens).
So, anyway, I totally can’t believe that I was afraid of cooking turkeys just a few months ago. I had no idea what I was missing! Here’s the deal. I cook them in a roaster. My Grandmother-in-law told me it was one of the best ways. Plus you didn’t have to have your oven on for hours and hours. She is so right! About noon, I set the roaster to 350 and cooked that sucker until about 4:30 or so. It cooked evenly. It cooked nicely. It saved my oven to be free for the bread. It was delicious. And now I know what I want for Christmas (along with a GPS of course!). A Nesco Roaster, thank you very much.
I saw one on sale at the Super Store but my husband’s Grandma said “No way. They aren’t all created equally. You have to shop for a roaster.” Now I don’t know anything about roasters but I trust this woman. I’m saying she makes a mean Sunday dinner.
I am going to continue to watch buy.com’s sale page. They always offer such a wide array of items — who knows, maybe it will land there next!
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Try adding apple cider to the bottom of the roaster. Makes a really nice glaze and it smells incredible as it’s cooking.
we love our roaster too. It’s a rival. we can crisp up the skin in our oven on broil after it is done in the roaster. I plug the roaster into the dryer outlet and set the roaster on the dryer so I don’t blow out our other outlets in our kitchen during Thanksgiving.