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Monday, November 30, 2009

Spatchcocked Hickory Smoked Turkey with the Trimmings

I was able to put together a Thanksgiving meal Thursday with "deer camp" going on at my house.


I spatchcocked and brined a turkey in a mixture of water, kosher salt, sugar, red pepper flakes, onion, garlic, and black pepper. I let the bird brine overnight....




Then placed sliced smoked sausage under the skin of the turkey, rubbed the bird with butter and seasoned with cracked black pepper and kosher salt....



Into my drum cooker with some hickory.....









The smoked sausage makes the meat extra moist and tasty....







I made some smooshed potatoes, onion/garlic pan fried corn....



dressing and broccoli/rice casserole....



pea/bacon salad....



other stuff......




I couldn't eat half of it but wanted to put at least a spoonful of each on the plate....






My deer hunting friends were happy so I guess it was a hit. :)

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Saturday

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I smoked a turkey on my drum and made plenty of side dishes. Hope to post pictures when company goes home.
I'm still in the middle of deer season and my house is "deer camp" for several friends.
Doing lots of cooking, eating, drinking, hunting and laughing.


Having a cookout tonight..not sure how many people will be here.... Guess I need to get busy!

Oh yeah... I got a deer yesterday too.

Life is good! :)