Share Your Favorite Turkey Cooking Methods & Win a $5 Amazon Gift Card!
I thought that it would be fun to have a little giveaway today! How would you like to win a $5 Amazon Gift Card? I would love to hear your Turkey Cooking Methods and I am sure that others would love to hear your ideas as well!
Go ahead and post your favorite turkey cooking method here on this post, and one lucky My Sweet Savings Reader will win a $5 Amazon Gift Card! I will leave this giveaway open until 9pm EST tonight and choose a winner via Random.org! :)
.......and, in case you are wondering, my favorite Turkey Cooking Method is:
You will need:
*One Reynold's Oven Cooking Bag
*Your turkey
*2 lemons, cut in half
*2 whole garlic bulbs, don't worry about peeling them, just leave the skin on
*2 whole onions, halfed-don't worry about peeling them, just leave the skin on
*4 big Rosemary sprigs, leave 2 of them whole, but chop up the other 2 sprigs
*2 sticks of real butter, softened-I don't skimp during the holidays! :)
Directions:
After you have cleaned your turkey, go ahead and place the lemons, onions, garlic and 2 of the Rosemary sprigs inside of your turkey.
Take your 2 sticks of softened butter and add the chopped up Rosemary to it creating a nice Rosemary butter mixture.
Slather this yummy and fragrant mixture all over your turkey.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Place the turkey inside of the cooking bag and cook according to the instructions and size of your turkey.
**Your house will smell so divine, and your taste buds will have a party when this turkey hits your mouth! It is so yummy, juicy and tender!
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UPSIDE DOWN
Wash it off, make sure to pull the bag of nasties out (neck, etc), give it a rub down with butter, salt & pepper it, roll an orange around on the counter to break up the juices inside, cut in half then stick it in the turkey, then put it in a pan upside down (breast down) for the amount of time the label says. Keep covered until about 30min. before done. It won't be pretty but it will be YUM~O & fall off the bone! And no basting required, it cooks in it's own juices. This is how I've cooked mine for 15 years.
My husband loves to deep fry the whole turkey!
My favorite method is to let someone else cook it. ;) My favorite turkey is my uncle's. He brines his turkey. Very moist and tasty!
We don't do all the extra flavorings. Just put it in a pan, rub butter on it, salt and pepper it and in it goes! We be sure to baste every hour to help keep it moist.
Breast down is a great way to cook a turkey nice and moist. I always use the Reynold's Oven Bags. However, your add-ins sound really good, may just have to give it a go!!
I always use a cooking bag. I'm also kinda old fashioned. I stuff my bird with homemade bread & sausage stuffing, and then I rub olive oil on the skin. Isn't the best part of the turkey the skin??!!! :) My turkey comes out very moist, and the stuffing is also very moist. Yum!!!
I like to melt a few sticks of REAL butter with some basil, garlic powder, crushed rosemary and pepper. Pour over the whole turkey, making sure every little nook and cranny is covered, Then I cover with foil and cook. Take the foil off for the last hour so it can brown up.
Heather, your recipe sounds delicious! My favorite turkey that I ever made -- just a turkey breast, actually -- was the one I did the first year I was married. I don't even remember everything that went into the oven. I know I used butter and a touch of cinnamon. I think there was garlic, salt, and pepper involved. I just threw together little bits of what we had in the cupboard in our tiny graduate school apartment. I covered the little guy with foil but basted often. I uncovered it for the last 30 minutes or so. The flavor was to die for; the hint of cinnamon was just right. I wish I could remember all that went into it; it would be fun to re-create the simple we've-just-been-married-for-4-months meal. (Maybe the reason it seemed so good is that we were still in that honeymoon phase!)
I wash it off real well, pull out all the nasty insides. Bath her in some oil and pop her in!
I usually let my mother-in-law cook the turkey :) I have yet to cook a whole turkey by myself!
We cook ours in a roaster oven. It frees up our oven to cook other things and it only takes 2 1/2 - 3 hours to cook a 20 pound bird. We don't usually do any seasonings. The Roaster Oven makes it very moist as long as you don't over cook it.
My favorite is trash can turkey! Yes, it sounds funny, but it is so moist and delicious.
What you will need:
Turkey
Coals
Aluminum Trash Can with a hole in top (to vent)
Stake to hold turkey
Directions:
Clear an area of grass outside and light coals. Post Turkey on stake. Cover with Aluminum Trash Can. Turkey cooks beautifully and is so moist!
My favorite method is to have my sister make the turkey. But after that, I would say using an oven bag and basting with butter and herbs.