Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope everyone has a great day and full bellies before it's over. No grilling here today, I'm doing our turkey the classic way I did for many years. Slow roasted overnight. Smelling fantastic and looks like a good one too.
Once again from our home to yours, have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, another great Thanksgiving is in the books here. The eats were fantastic if I may say so. Started doing a little bit of cooking and prep work each night this week and Thanksgiving morning went perfectly smooth with no problems except for my bread which I hated and everybody else thought was good. Oh, the other thing was I forgot to get all the pictures I wanted to get. Oh well!
The turkey was a Butterball that weighed in at just under twenty three pounds. I put it in a brine on Tuesday night and took it out and rinsed it well Wednesday afternoon.
Glad to have that big stainless steel sink when it comes to things like this.
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After rinsing I put it to air dry in the fridge to make seasoning stick better. When it was time to go into the oven I took it out Injected it with a Cajun injection marinade and then rubbed it down allover with butter and seasoned with my Cajun seasoning and more black pepper.
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Using the slow roasting method I heat the oven to 500* and stick the bird in there until all of the outside of it looks good and browned and then lower the oven temperature to 200* and called it a night for me. I get up a couple times during the night to check on it and it's always fine.
By 9:30 am Thanksgiving morning it done! I just turn the oven off and it stays warm.
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Of course the whole house smells fantastic the whole night while the turkey is slow roasting and when I check on the turkey it brings one of the dogs to the kitchen to investigate that wonderful smell.
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In the blink of an eye the other dog appears and I begin to think if I don't close the oven soon that a scene from A Christmas Story will ensue.
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I know they're thinking "maybe all of this Turkey is for us". Yeah right!
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The bread pudding.
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A lil White Chocolate Rum sauce I whipped up for the bread pudding.
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Candied yams
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The whole meal was fantastic and of course everyone was stuffed and suffered from the Turkey Drug Effect. Uncontrollable napping!
Our menu:
Slow roasted turkey
Turkey neck gravy
Cornbread dressing
Shrimp & Mirliton dressing
Candied yams
Green peas
Grenbean casserole
Mac & cheese
Another sweet potato dish Sweet potato crunch(closer to a dessert dish)
Dirty rice
Homemade bread
Homemade cranberry sauce
Wine: Prosecco
Dessrt:
Ooey gooey pumkin bars
Pumpkin pie
Bread Pudding