Its Turkey Time
Today we had our friends over for a Thanksgiving feast and to watch a little football. I decided to try something new this year and that was to fry a turkey. There are so many warnings around heating such a large amount of oil. Oh well you know me jump right in head first....
OK first lets talk football. Overall it was a good day. We watched the Texans, Cowboys and Steelers. Yes a rather odd grouping but it is what it is. Hometown team the Texans pulled a victory over the Saints while my favorite the Cowboys had some fun with long time rival Redskins. 
Romo to T.O. seemed like a good thing today with 4 touchdowns. Unfortunately the Steelers could not hold on during OT and lost. The Steelers are a better team than the Jets so this is a big surprise. This was the Jets second win all season. It was rather noisy in the house and I took some jabs for wearing my Roy Williams jersey from the Texans fans not to mention Kelli who was wearing her Steelers jersey. Seems I am alone around here in supporting Americas Team. Anyway two rooms with both TV's going with different games.
Now lets talk some turkey. It started with our recent trip to the new HEB where they were running
a special on turkeys (10lb turkey free). I picked out a nice big (17lb) turkey to feed the crowd and thought lets try frying this thing. Kelli bought some Cajun Butter injection juice and I pulled out the equipment. Having never done this
before I was a little concerned with the hot oil giving me the volcano treatment during transfer into pot. I rigged up a pulley system from the rim of the kids portable basketball goal. Worked like a charm being able to slowly lower the turkey into the pot. Yes I took more than my fair share if ribbing about my hookup but hey safety first right? After cooking for 55 minutes it was time to pull Tom from the pot and let cool before bringing into the house. Checked the internal temp and found it to be 180 degrees. Perfect! Overall it was a tasty bird. Very juicy. Next time I will go a little easier on the injection though. Following the instructions it seemed to have a slightly stronger taste than I would have preferred.
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I hear it was yummy. Who knew you were chef?
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