We usually go to NY for Thanksgiving, but this year we stayed in Virginia. In the spirit of the south, I got a turkey fryer and some propane and deep fried my first turkey.
HOLY SHIT GUYS. The crispy skin. The juicy insides. The dark. The white. The decadence. The gluttony. THE GLORY THAT IS DEEP FRIED TURKEY.
I confess that my entire life, I was always more excited about the sides (stuffing, potatoes, etc.) than the turkey, and I know a lot of people who feel that way. That was not true this year. 2 hours later I’m still crunching on crispy turkey skin and pulling juicy slivers of turkey apart by barely touching them.
You should try injecting the turkey with hot sauce (half butter/half Frank’s red hot). It adds a little ribbons of flavor throughout the meat. I guess you would have to be partial to hot sauce, but that’s the turkey that always gets eaten up first if we different birds.
Yeah, I read about a garlic butter injection that also makes it great. Will have to make plenty of adjustments next year - this year the focus was mostly on not blowing myself up, since it was just me figuring out how to do everything.
I thought a butter herb injection sounded great but it was pretty underwhelming. The hot sauce one just has that subtle zing to it. Garlic butter may be good so def try it out. One thing I usually do when frying turkeys is, hang on to the peanut oil for a week or so and do a giant batch of wings to get at least another use out of the oil.
I just stumbled across a live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series from the late 90s on Netflix. Somehow this managed to stay under my, and my social circle’s, radar for 20 years.
I now have 3 grown men coming over for the next few weekends. We will all be using our kids as cover to watch this so we don’t seem like sad old men to our partners.
Best early Christmas present ever (I refuse to accept any negativity around the likely shitshow this is probably going to turn out to be - I’m looking at you Dark Crystal!!!)
