Any Home Bakers Here?

[Pensmaster]

Bones are what is used used to make Bouillon .

I didn’t realize there’s so many terms for it.
We use it when making squash soup.

 

[swampfox440]

Hi Mark, nice to see you here! A loaf of bread baked in a mail box? That sounds like a good story!

The mail box looked just Like a standard mail box to a T even has a flag, but 3/8" thick steel . I bury it in hot coals from the camp fire and it acts like an oven . Perfect for ciabatta bread . If I ever got rid of it my son would kill me the bread was so good ! I still have it .

 

[N F C]

The mail box looked just Like a standard mail box to a T even has a flag, but 3/8" thick steel . I bury it in hot coals from the camp fire and it acts like an oven . Perfect for ciabatta bread . If I ever got rid of it my son would kill me the bread was so good ! I still have it .

Cool idea!

 

[Pye Wacket]

EDIT: SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, NOT SAD! LOL!

So, has anyone started thinking about Thanksgiving or Christmas and what recipes they want to make (or try for the first time)?

Since T-giving will just be 2 of us, I'm going to try a new recipe with turkey breasts. No need for a huge bird here.

I have never cared for turkey, I prefer chicken if it must be poultry or ham otherwise.

The last time I "did" Thanksgiving, my younger sister was "living with" (aka LEECHING OFF) my dad. My dad expressed a desire for a family dinner so I offered to make Bird Day Dinner at his house because we hadn't had a "family" thanksgiving for like 15+years, since I always did Bird Day. The last Bird Day I did was THREE DAYS after my son was born. Nonetheless I made dinner for 13 people with all the fixings. Oh yeah, and I paid for it all as well, AS USUAL. (I'm not only NOT the oldest, I'm not even the oldest GIRL, if you subscribe to paternalistic ideas of who should perform what domestic tasks, which I do not).

They bitched and moaned about EVERYTHING. The last straw was when my sister complained that I had not made home made rolls. I told her she could have made some and brought them herself, but given I was ONE DAY out of the hospital, I though store bought rolls ought to be forgivable. And of course no one offered to help clean up but everyone had brought containers to take food home with them.

I didn't make a big deal about it. I just never offered to do it again, which meant NO ONE could be arsed to arrange a family dinner that they would have to do the work and pay for.

So here we were 15 years or whatever later (might have been 20, I have forgotten) and my dad asks me to "do" the dinner at his place. So naturally I asked him what he wanted me to make. He said HAM. So I bought a ham.

And danged if they didn't all complain AGAIN because I didn't buy a turkey. My older sister conveyed to me their displeasure. I just told her that Daddy wanted ham and so ham I would provide since I figured the 80+ year old guy who was providing the venue gets to pick (not to mention that *I* was paying, not them). If someone wanted turkey, they were free to buy one, roast it, and bring it on over.

So of course they all got huffy, told my dad they wouldn't come if I was there. Well I HAD to be there to do the cooking, he said. They suggested I DO THE COOKING AND THEN GO HOME LOL! (Understand, they lived about 45 mins from him and I lived a FOURTEEN HOUR DRIVE away!!!!!) He told them if they didn't like it they didn't have to come.

So they didn't come. None of them could be bothered to see him again until the day before he died. Then they all demanded to know where the money from his "house" was (he had been renting for like 25 years before he moved in with me a couple of years before he died).

I still miss my dad, but I don't miss the drama around "family dinners". Nor the family, come to that.



EDIT: Oh it's not sad, that's me up there doing a happy dance. I don't really think Bird Day is a real holiday anyway.

 

[N F C]

Apparently Thanksgiving wasn't a good topic to bring up...you all have a good day.

 

[swampfox440]

Would you like to here about cooking home smoked turkey in a wash machine ? I don't have time now trying to catch up !

 

[BullChick]

So, has anyone started thinking about Thanksgiving or Christmas and what recipes they want to make (or try for the first time)?

Since T-giving will just be 2 of us, I'm going to try a new recipe with turkey breasts. No need for a huge bird here.

I started a thread, but I don’t know if it was clear what the point was. I think it’s important to cook a real meal because it keeps us involved. We can share pictures and ideas as well as the joy and trials of the preparations! The point of the thread I tried to start is to get an idea of what is still worth making when it’s only 1-4 (or whatever) people. We all cook more for a group. I’m not making baked mac n’ cheese, three kinds of stuffing, 12 pies, two meats, etc. for me and possibly Duckling. This is the year to try new recipes too. So, yeah. We need to share our plans because it will help others to figure out their menu too.
Btw, Christmas is T-bone on the grill.

 

[R2elk]

I started a thread, but I don’t know if it was clear what the point was. I think it’s important to cook a real meal because it keeps us involved. We can share pictures and ideas as well as the joy and trials of the preparations! The point of the thread I tried to start is to get an idea of what is still worth making when it’s only 1-4 (or whatever) people. We all cook more for a group. I’m not making baked mac n’ cheese, three kinds of stuffing, 12 pies, two meats, etc. for me and possibly Duckling. This is the year to try new recipes too. So, yeah. We need to share our plans because it will help others to figure out their menu too.
Btw, Christmas is T-bone on the grill.

Enjoy your holiday. Here it is just another day. The turkeys that survive it will be happy. The turkeys that didn't survive it will be delicious.

 

[BullChick]

I have never cared for turkey, I prefer chicken if it must be poultry or ham otherwise

I didn’t like turkey until I ate my own homegrown turkeys. Even a wild turkey was gross to me. Now Wild Turkey...

 

[R2elk]

I didn’t like turkey until I ate my own homegrown turkeys. Even a wild turkey was gross to me. Now Wild Turkey...

The best turkey I ever had was a BBW that dressed out at 34 lbs. My mother did not have a big enough roaster for it. She put it on a tray and tented it with aluminum foil.

Her store bought turkeys (mid 20 lbs.) were usually still being eaten a week after Thanksgiving. This one was completely gone by the third day.