Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I'm Thankful that I have a healthy family, all safe and home.
I'm also thankful that I have a place to come and visit to ask questions and share my concerns and worries with like minded people.

Terri

I had a very nice Thanksgiving this year. We deep fried two turkeys and a turkey breast. My adult kids were both home (explains all the turkey..they wanted leftovers), and we have a new puppy who went the entire day without an accident (yay!), and dinner turned out awesome. I even got my Christmas tree up this weekend... way ahead of schedule for me, but sort of nice to have it up.

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Day, too, Dan!!

Cara

I've heard of this deep fried turkey thing. I gather you are not ITALIAN!!!

I can just see my grandmother's face if I ever told her Deep Fried Turkey!!!

now that would be a picture. You see, in italian households when I was a kid, no one cooked a turkey. NEVER!!!

What did we eat???

Something called CAPON.

Now I remember asking my mother what the heck is a CAPON? and I remember she turned beet red and said "Well, it's a castrated chicken".

Never had Capon again in all my life.

melody

No, Melody, you are 100% right... no Italian here. I've got German, Norwegian, Polish, English, and Scottish, and a similiar mixture for my husband. My daughter's best friend is 100% Italian on one side (which makes her 50%, I guess), and they have spaghetti with their turkey. And I live in a very Italian city, if that counts for anything . I was once embarrassed to near death to find out that you don't pronounce gnochi with a hard g and a chi sound. Who ever knew it was no-key??? I can only imagine how hard they laughed every time we ordered it over the phone....lol!

I'm not sure what possessed us to try this turkey fry thing, except we had all the equipment (like a big 'flame thrower') because my husband homebrews beer. So, we thought we'd try it, and I'll never go back until my husband and son stop offering to do it.

The turkey tastes really good, and we cooked two turkeys and a breast in 2 hours and 15 minutes! Can you imagine, a 16 pound turkey in less than an hour? And...they come out very moist. And...I don't have a turkey taking up space in my oven, nor do "I" have to mess with the turkey part at all. So it is all thumbs up for me!!! If you lived closer, I'd invite you over for a taste .

Cara