Category: Cooking
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Uncle Peter’s Brine Turkey
This brine turkey is simply amazing!!! It takes roughly 1 day of brining followed by 3 hours or so of prep/cooking on the day of serving. Overall, it was an amazing Thanksgiving bird and, prepared this way, also comes accompanied by deliciously spiced vegetables! What I Used: Ingredients for brine 2 gallons cold water 3 […]
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Turkey Stock
A terrific balance to the plentiful celebration that is Thanksgiving is the ability to reuse every aspect of the dinner beyond days of leftovers. Turkey stock is a wonderful celebration of this “waste not want not” concept. What I Used: Turkey carcass OPTIONAL: 1 tsp salt 1 onion 1 stalk celery 1 lb large carrots […]
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Brine Turkey Gravy
What I Used: Preserved innards from Uncle Peter’s Brine Turkey Preserved turkey juices and spices IN PAN from Uncle Peter’s Brine Turkey 1-2 Tbsp canola oil 1/4 cup white wine 2 Tbsp butter 2 Tbsp flour 1/2 cup water (1) Use canola oil to coat bottom of large pan. (2) Sear preserved innards on high. […]
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Applesauce from Tree to Freezer
All hail apple-picking season!!! As we do every year, we headed down to a local orchard and loaded up on dozens of pounds of apples intended for all sorts of homemade deliciousness. With a preschooler, toddler, and soon-to-be newborn in the house, well-processed applesauce is a necessary staple. This recipe is ridiculously easy for processing […]
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Mise en place
Mise en place (pronounced MEEZ ahn plahs), or “setting/putting in place” in French Maybe it’s just me, but one of my least favorite things about cooking from a recipe is thinking that I’m all set with my ingredients, only to learn that I’ll be staring down 30 minutes of prep time before I can even […]
