This is not really compete but I'm posting anyway. It covers what we did this past Thanksgiving
(revised Jan 26, 2021)
Turkey
Ingredients:
14 lb Turkey
Stuffing (see below)
Cooking bag
Flour
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350F
Rinse turkey thoroughly and dry with paper towel.
Remove and rinse giblets and set aside giblets.
Stuff turkey and place in cooking bag along with giblets and 2 table spoons flours.
Insert digital thermometer in the stuffing prior to sealing the bag.
Poke several holes in the bag with a fork.
Start roasting the turkey at 350F for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 F
Roast until the turkey is 180 F, or the stuffing is 165 F (which ever happens last.). Assume about 3 1/2 hours for a stuffed 14 pound turkey. (Note: the 18 pound turkey I cooked several weeks later was also done in 3 1/2 hours. What can I say.)
Stuffing
Ingredients:
8 cups dried white bread cut into cubes
2 cups Mushrooms sliced
2 teaspoons Tarragon
Heaping cup celery
Heaping half cup onion
1 Egg
7 tables spoons butter
1/2 table spoon salt
3 table spoons milk
Instructions
Dice onions and celery keeping them separate.
Place dried bread cups in a large bowl and mix with tarragon salt and pepper.
Sauté onions and mushroom until soft and reduced, add celery and continue to sauté briefly
Mix sautéd vegetables with bread by hand.
Beat egg with milk and add to the bread.
Mix thoroughly by hand.
Place in cavity of turkey.
Remaining stuffing can be baked separately in a covered greased casserole dish. Bake at 325F for 60 minutes or until 165F.
Mix the two batches of stuffing (The portion from the turkey will be very moist. The portion cooked separately will be relatively dry. Mist together they are just right)
Cranberry Sauce
Several versions used. See earlier post for a unique version. Canned cranberry sauce is perfectly OK as well.
Green Bean Casserole
Ingredients:
2 cans of cut green beans
1 can of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup.
1 1/3 cups French's fried onions
Directions:
Follow directions on French's Fried Onions can
Sweet Potatoes (Draft)
can of sweet potatoes
brown sugar
butter
Mashed Potatoes (Draft)
Peal cut into quarters and simmer until soft (usually about 50 minutes)
Mash with butter and cream as prefered.
Gravy (Draft)
Ingredients:
Turkey drippings
Water from boiled potatoes
Corn starch or flour
Instructions:
Draft
