Food 2: Chew Harder • Page 43

Nice, what's the drink?

 

Old fashioned with a little amaretto but with scotch instead of bourbon

 

Crust is a little messy but I finally nailed my chicken pot pie.

 

Fuck I love chicken pot pie.

 

Looks awesome to me.

 

My wife and I have been making chicken pot pie with some golden curry cubes and it's so fucking good.

 

DM me one please

 

I can only offer them via ICQ chat so I'm sorry.

 

Anyone doing any fun recipes for thanksgiving? I’m gonna try a cornbread stuffing and Claire saffitz’s caramelized honey pumpkin pie.

 

That pumpkin pie sounds fantastic, I need to bust out her book again and try some new things.

Girlfriend and I decided to just stay home this year and cook for ourselves. We're keeping it pretty basic but got a nice Mary's turkey and are going to try a mushroom stuffing with whatever cool wild mushrooms we can find at the fancy store and good bread from a local bakery. Other than that just mashed potatoes and green bean casserole. We usually try way too many crazy things and just end up stressing ourselves out and being exhausted halfway through the day.

 

If you’re making a turkey, spatchcock it. There is no other way imo.

 

My man out here saying spatchcock it like any of us knows what tf that means.

 

Remove the backbone and press down until it lays flat. The legs will be spread wide, so all of the skin is facing up.

https://www.seriouseats.com/butterfiled-roast-turkey-with-gravy-recipe

 

I, for the record, and am quite cultured and knew was spatchcocking was.

 

I’ve also never done it

 

We spatchcocked a turkey 2 years ago and it was great but so much work that I’ll never do it again

 

Always spatchcock when smoking a turkey or chicken.

 

spatchcocking is by far the best. it's a fair amount of work up front the day or 2 before but then you get the backbone to use for gravy and the day of it's so easy to just toss in the oven and you're done in like 1.5 hours.

might try Kenji's mayo smothered turkey this year. usually i do herb butter smothered all over and under the skin but i'm interested in this method

 

I only know what spatchcocking is because of Bob’s Burgers

 

Ive never gotten to be head chef at thanksgiving but that's what happens when you live in an apartment and never get to host. Those that are making a full spread, share your work! +1 for spatchcocking the bird being a great way to go.

I did make stuffing/dressing (is that just regional or is there a difference?) for friendsgiving that came out well, but I've had to freeze it so I hope it reheats fine. I'm out of town and getting back just in time for that, so it had to be made early or not at all.


Also made a vegan chili that was I was pretty happy with. No special ingredients, extremely mild (it wasn't just for me), but a good consistency and taste. I am going to make a beef chili later, and for that I will go crazy (grind some short ribs, use dried chilis etc). This was just basic comfort food.

 

If you can get some hen of the woods mushrooms, they add a wonderful flavor. We’ve used them in shepherds pie before and they added so much to it.

 

Just realized I forgot to take the turkey out of the freezer. I'm screwed.

 

You can express thaw it in cold water. I did mine in a cooler, changing the water every 30 minutes and rotating it. 30 minutes per pound. Cover it all the way.

 

Thanks! Will definitely be doing this. Good thing it's a small one.

 

Reminds me of one of my favorite videos