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 Post subject: Thanksgiving Feast
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:06 pm 
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As you know, we Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the second weekend of October.... Well, being in the Motel business, we are usually full with guests over the holiday weekend, so we traditionally have our turkey dinner the middle of the following week.... Since we moved to Coalmont, I have been smoking the turkey in a cross-flow smoker (the kind with a separate fire box on the side)…. It takes a long time to do (~15 min/lb)…. but the results are well worth it.... However, if you have never seen a smoked turkey, you might wonder, as they are pretty much black on the outside....

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If you are wondering why the turkey looks like it was run over by a truck, you aren't far wrong in that assessment.... It has been "spatchcocked", which means the backbone removed and the bird flattened out to cook more evenly and faster (it takes 1/2 hour per pound in the smoker if you don't do this) and looks a bit like a butterfly…. Here is a short video on how to butterfly your turkey....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZxWF0VyK60

Only the skin, which my wife prepared with a spice rub, is blackened.... The meat is cooked very evenly, and the breast is not overcooked like when you roast a turkey whole and properly cook the thigh meat.... This is because the thigh meat is more exposed, instead of tucked up under the bird.... We get six meals from a 14 lb. bird for my wife and I.... three conventional turkey dinners, a curried turkey dinner over rice, and two batches of smoked turkey soup.... The latter is unbelievably good, the smoke and spice rub combine to give it a nice bite and lots of flavours….

To all my airgunning friends, Happy Thanksgiving.... I hope you enjoyed (or enjoy in the case of you Yanks who have another month plus to wait) your feast as much as we did last night....

Bob

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