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| The turkey had been injected with an herbal marinade and refrigerated for a few hours. Here Jen is drying both the inside cavity and the outer skin of the turkey so that it wouldn't spatter when lowered into the pot of hot oil. Notice how their yellow lab, Murray, is so hoping something would drop down to his level. |
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| In the upper third of this shot you'll find Ken trying to stay warm down at the fire pit. The deep fryer contraption was set up on the hillside near the fence around the corral. We were all a bit jittery about this new procedure. |
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| Very slowly the turkey is lowered down into the bubbling hot fat (peanut oil). |
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| The fat boiled up over the turkey but then settled down to start the frying process. |
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| After only 40 minutes it was time to shut the whole process down and pull out the fried turkey. We were excited to see how well it cooked. |
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| It looked nice and browned. |
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| Out it comes! |
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| Jen had roasted a turkey "traditional style" so there were two birds on the buffet table. The sides included mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, two kinds of stuffing (a traditional and another with habanero sausage), a wonderful string bean recipe that included bacon and pine nuts, rolls . . . appetizers were served a couple hours before dinner, and both pumpkin pie and apple pie served for dessert! |
Life is good!
4 comments:
It all looks so yummy!I've heard of frying a bird too but have never tried one. I would have had both bird., just incase the fried one didn't come out
This brought back good memories of our Family frying turkeys over the Holidays....looks delicious.
What a wonderful day you all had.
Yes, it is important to remember as Glenn Beck says it is giving thanks not just Thanksgiving.....we have lots to be thankful for.
Enjoying our stay in Pahrump we will be flying home to share in Ella's first Christmas and then flying to Oklahoma to be there when one of our grandsons will be graduating from boot camp at Fort Sill.
Thank you in sharing a "first" with us. Now we know that the extra 10 minutes was definitely not needed. I'm glad we had the roasted as a back up but that was a bit dry also. We sure didn't go hungry though! Love you guys lots and lots!
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