Good afternoon North Cali.

 

Deboned a chicken and stuffed it. A warm up. Practice run. Now I am ready for deboning a turkey. Complete removal of bones from the inside. No cutting of skin.

 

That actually sounds really cool.

 

That sounds kind of weird, so you remove the binges in the legs as well?

Howdy Nor Cal, hope all is going well.

We are going to brine a turkey first and then put it on my Weber rotisserie for Thanksgiving!

 

Better than I thought. I didn't have any store bought stuffing in a box. I used some leftover rice, and leftover assorted vegetables. The veggies let off steam, which made the chicken very tender. The rice soaked up the chicken juice. It was delicious. Crispy chicken skin from roasting. Rice and veggies benefited from all the chicken flavor. And the chicken meat was fork tender. This solves the problem of dry breast meat.

 

Do you use wood or charcoal? Despite the cost of the rotisserie attachment being higher than what the Weber cost, those are amazing. It makes the Weber a better tool.

Even though I live in The City, my buddies and I are BBQ enthusiast. We actually haul our grills, smokers, and the entire kitchen to Golden Gate Park for "day camping". While we live in little apartments with limited street parking, we turn the park into our back yard. There's plenty of picnic tables, open meadows the size of football fields, swings & slides for the kids, a Merry-go-round, bathrooms, stores nearby in case we run low on beer, and it's all free. There's no gate charge or use fee in Golden Gate Park. And in a city like San Francisco, where we all grew up, the Park Rangers are guys we know from the neighborhood. No hassles about drinking in public, brandishing firearms, harvesting the wild life....not that I have ever killed and roasted a goose, or shot raccoons and coyotes who got too close to the cooler.

All "pre-pandemic".

I have a Weber, an Old Smokey, and a barrel type BBQ with an offset firebox and chimney. One of our favorites is a 7 bone, whole prime rib, cooked in the Old Smokey. But chicken wings on a Hibachi is the no. 1. For obvious reasons. It's quicker to cook wings, they are great with beer, and cheaper than prime rib. So there's always about 20 pounds of wings being devoured while something better is slow cooking.

I have plans for the post coronavirus cookout. Whole suckling pigs.

 

Hey Rob, That all sounds good about Golden Gate Park. Sounds like a good time with friends and all. Thanks for sharing the Old Smoky video, I'm ready to smoke a meat loaf now.

 

Received a bunch of food from the VA. No turkey but a whole chicken rolls, butter, corn, yams, eggs veggies, even a baking pan and aluminum foil.

Jim

 

Happy Sunday Nor Cal! Hope everyone has a blessed day.

Jim

 

Happy Monday Nor Cal. Starting to get a bit nippy around here.

Jim

 

Nippy. Schmippy. Here this morning is drippy.

 

Good to hear they are trying to help out vets during the holidays.

Stewart

 

Got a call from the VA hospital today. They say they should have a vaccine available by the end of the year. I should get an email from them or a call from my Primary Care physician when it is available.

Jim

 

Happy two turkeys for Tuesday Nor Cal!

Jim

 

The last Humpeth Day of November has arrived.

Jim