Pfunksfoolosophy

Well, I’m not going to my grandmother’s house…BUT I am cooking like my grandma. I love to cook Thanksgiving dinner. My turkey is legendary and it’s really quite simple to make. Some folks like to brine and think it makes a huge difference, but it’s been proven that the difference in flavor and moistness is negligible. Here’s what you do: DON’T OVERCOOK IT. Simple, huh? Also, I cook it sloooowly and use a compound butter of sage and thyme. Rub it all over the bird, stuff it between the skin and flesh and you’ve got yourself a great tasting, moist little turkey. What else is going with that little critter?

Dressing. Plenty of dressing. I don’t like to stuff the bird…it gets icky. SO, I make a sausage and pepper dressing using cornbread and herb stuffing mix. It’s quick and easy and damn if it doesn’t fill ya up. Additionally, we’re having mashed taters. Garlic mashed ’cause I likes mah garlic. It’s good for your heart. Of course the butter and whole milk might not be so wonderful, but come on…it’s yummy stuff.

This leads us to my favorite part of any meal: GRAVY. Hopefully I will make enough. Sometimes there isn’t enough gravy and that makes me sad. I can make a meal of mashed taters and gravy. I HAVE made a meal of it, in fact. I’m also making candied sweet potatoes. None of that marshmallow topped business, that’s for the birds, man. Collards and sweet potatoes go great together so I’m making some collards.

The piece de resistance will be macaroni and cheese. Mama like. Cheesey…creamy…aw, man…I wish you could be here to enjoy it.

If you’re in NYC, look me up. I’ll be in the West Village serving it up.

No food stalkers, please.

Hope you all have a happy and food filled holiday. I know that I’m thankful for you.

Be well, gang!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 5:15 pm and is filed under Cooking, Just stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.