The "I'm Thinking of Making" Thread

[Jenne]

Why not?  Seems folks who like bacon are not afraid to put chocolate with it.  I probably wouldn't do it unless I was high or pregnant.  But ymmv.

[LMNO]

I'm thinking of making Cornish Game Hens for four people.

Gimme your recipes.

[Jasper]

SPADGECOCK THOSE BAD BOYS

[Jenne]

I've never made them...did you make them already?  If so, how'd they turn out?

[LMNO]

I'll see if I can post results soon.

[Jenne]

I'll see if I can post results soon.

Ok.

[Jenne]

Also, am responsible for turkey-making this year.  Fie.  So, feel free to share with me your favorite marinades, etc.  I think we're deep-frying again...but I may make another one a different way, just because.

[Juana]

We've had luck with cooking it breast-down rather than on its back. All the juices coalesce down there and make it delicious.

[Eater of Clowns]

Also, am responsible for turkey-making this year.  Fie.  So, feel free to share with me your favorite marinades, etc.  I think we're deep-frying again...but I may make another one a different way, just because.

I'm not sure you caught ECH's suggestion of getting a new cotton pillowcase, washing it once, soaking it in butter, then cooking the turkey inside of it.  It sounded like a good one.

[Jenne]

Also, am responsible for turkey-making this year.  Fie.  So, feel free to share with me your favorite marinades, etc.  I think we're deep-frying again...but I may make another one a different way, just because.

I'm not sure you caught ECH's suggestion of getting a new cotton pillowcase, washing it once, soaking it in butter, then cooking the turkey inside of it.  It sounded like a good one.

I did, I'm considering it, but also like to hear others' takes, too.  Turkey's been done by the "senior women" in the family, so last year and this year I have a lot of seniority to beat.    But the pillowcase idea sounds good even still...

[Whatever]

Also, am responsible for turkey-making this year.  Fie.  So, feel free to share with me your favorite marinades, etc.  I think we're deep-frying again...but I may make another one a different way, just because.

I'm not sure you caught ECH's suggestion of getting a new cotton pillowcase, washing it once, soaking it in butter, then cooking the turkey inside of it.  It sounded like a good one.

I did, I'm considering it, but also like to hear others' takes, too.  Turkey's been done by the "senior women" in the family, so last year and this year I have a lot of seniority to beat.    But the pillowcase idea sounds good even still...

For my turkey last year I made the juiciest turkey I have ever made.  You start with your usual pan and rack.  I put an onion, some celery heads, a couple of smashed garlic cloves and a stick of butter in the cavity, then covered the entire turkey with slices of fatback/salt pork.  I then covered the whole turkey with wet cheesecloth that I had folded to make a 4 layer cover.  Threw a few onion quarters in the bottom of the pan with a half a can of beer and some water.  Made for about 2-3 inches of liquid in the bottom of my pan.  Then roasted the turkey under the cheesecloth for the first 4 hours.  I then pulled out the turkey and removed the cheesecloth and fatback and put it back in the oven loosely covered with foil for another hour.  Then I did the turkey uncovered for the last hour, hour and a half.  This turkey was so juicy my ziploc bag of leftover meat had juice in the bottom of it the next day.  Leftovers didn't make it far past that.  I got the idea from America's Test Kitchen.  The method is called (according to them) larding the turkey.  All I know is it was absolutely delicious!!!

[Jenne]

Oooh...that has some possibilities.  We did the GREAT TURBACONDUCKEN (was it last year? No...year before that), and that was certifiably outta this world.

[Whatever]

Oooh...that has some possibilities.  We did the GREAT TURBACONDUCKEN (was it last year? No...year before that), and that was certifiably outta this world.

Not sure if there is much that can beat a turkey stuffed with chicken and duck and bacon, but for just turkey that is the best recipe I have ever made in the oven!!

[Jenne]

We sorta scared ourselves with our audacity that year, I do recall.  It was quite an adventure just getting the damned DUCK.

Good times, though.

[Jenne]

OKIEDOKIE ARTICHOKIES

SO!

My husband, in his infinite wisdom (cue laugh track) has bought us a "quarter" of farm-fresh organic vegetables and fruits, to be delivered weekly at someone's house and we pick them up.  What is in the boxes when we get them is usually somewhat of a surprise.  We get a weekly email, but that's usually AFTER we get the box.

So far we have gotten 1) chard (green, yellow and pink), 2) beets (2 sizes, one size big enough to eat the damned beets, one size for the LEAVES, baby beets still attached optional!), 3) RED carrots, 4) orange carrots 5) radishes (so many damned fucking radishes) 6) dandelion bundles 7) cilantro bundles kale (yay! kale chips!--btdt) 9) rhubarb, 10) strawberries 11) kumfuckingquats (jesusmarynjoseph my gawd too many, TOO MANY!) 12) various citrus fruits of all kinds (blood oranges, navel oranges, limes and lemons, 13) lettuces--butter and red, usually and 14) this week--ROSEMARY!  WOOHOO!

So YEAH...a combo of the above (not all everytime, some of each) we've been getting the past month and a half.  We have a month and a half to go.  We're still evaluating if this is a good idea...it's $$$, but you can't beat (or BEET?) the opportunity to have healthy shit all the time (literally).

ANYFUCKING WAY

I'm going to make a cream-rosemary-mushroom-meat/tbd-macaroni n cheese.  Because goddamn I LOVE me some rosemary bundle.  We'll get lamb and make some with the rest of the rosemary.

Any thoughts on jazzing up the above?  Alphapance's Kale Soup's been done, same with kale chips.  Any thoughts on chard other than treating it like collard greens (btdt)?  Same with kumquats?  Anyone?  Bueller?