Posted on 11/19/2010 5:13:31 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Thanksgiving is next week and I hope all Freepers enjoy a bountiful feast with family and friends. Don’t forget to give thanks, it can turn a meal into a feast.
A reminder for those of you who have a frozen turkey, for every 4 pounds of turkey it will take a day to thaw in the refrigerator. A 20-pound turkey will take 5 days so you need to start defrosting it tomorrow. If your turkey will not fit into your fridge defrost it in an ice chest with ice.
If the turkey is allowed to thaw at a temperature above 40 ºF, any harmful bacteria that may have been present before freezing can begin to grow again unless proper thawing methods are used.
You can also thaw it in a cold-water bath. Allow about 30 minutes per pound when thawing a turkey in cold water. A 20-pound turkey will take 10 hours using this method. Be sure to change the water often. Turkeys thawed by the cold-water method should be cooked immediately because conditions were not temperature controlled.
Ok Freepers this means no thawing of the turkey on the back porch or in the trunk of your car!
Glenn Beck is talking about this bill right now on the radio. He said changes were made so it has to go back to the house.
Seems our republican elected are getting as bad as the democrat communists by telling us what we can and cannot do with our produce. It’s none of the doggone business.
I hope so, pretty soon they’ll be telling us how to brush our teeth! I pray for our country..to wake up.
Oh, we’re still getting okra and jalapenos. The jalepenos are pretty small.
Thanks.
Can I also add a bit of advice for the frozen or fresh turkeys? Make sure that the wrapper doesn’t have any sort of puncture in it. I experienced this last year with a frozen turkey defrosting in my fridge. A small (very small) hole was in the wrapper that I didn’t initially see. Two days before Thanksgiving, I noticed a “smell” from the defrosting turkey. It was now bad. Even if you need help from someone who works in the butcher/meat department to lift and twirl it, check it out before purchase. I was able to return the turkey with a receipt but instead of a 25 pound turkey, I had to settle for the biggest at that point. It was 20 pounds. Lesson learned.
My wife and I usually have a big ol’ bone in ham for Thanksgiving. We did do a Turkey last year. Turned out good, but we prefer the Ham. We may do a rib eye roast this year.
How exactly do you store them? I’d like to get a fig. Do you get any figs from the trees, or are they more ornamental? Thanks!
I have always seen Thanksgiving as a holiday to eat what you really like. I have some Italian friends who cook a turkey breast because they feel that is what they are suppose to have on the table BUT they also make lasagna, meatballs, sausage in marina sauce. YUM! Believe it or not, turkey does taste good next to lasagna. Enjoy!
My figs are in the ground. I have some straw bails I plan to insulate them with this year. In the past couple of years I thought the cold had killed off all 3 of my fig trees. But they rebounded and put up new growth from the roots, I was so delighted to see the new growth!
Mrs Bender is doing her traditional Turkey dinner after a two year hiatus due to family feud that has run it’s course (We hope). She will pick up a fresh bird today and anything else she needs for her famous Holiday Dinners. She streamed two winter squash yesterday for her pumpkin pie and has farm fresh apples for the sour cream apple pie that our son loves but he is in a weight reduction contest with two other men.
We had 1/2” of rain yesterday and snow in the mountains of the North Western corner of California so the garden will have to fend for itself...
I see my not too bright but ever popularity seeking Johanns R signed this bill ! Grrrr Never mind I did not vote for him before. Now I have to waste postage to write another letter.
S510 is downright dangerous to our well-being, pocket book, and freedom.
This is our second season and our first harvest. We didn't get a spring crop (called breba) but the late summer crop was between 30-40 per tree. So sweet and yummy. People who say they don't like figs change their minds. It's a soft, luscious fruit that has very little shelf life.
That is a nice size salmon!
One member still had the ability to read and comprehend, one member could still start a bolt without cross threading it, one had the foresight to bring most of the tools we needed for the job and one stood around and laughed at our fumbles and stumbles. After all that it would not start so we gave up and my FRiend with small engine repair shop will meet me over there to troubleshoot the wiring to the various safety switches as we are not getting spark...
which of the four was you? lol
You just have to wonder just what the Senators from the big farming/Cattle (bread basket) states are thinking when they vote for crap like this!
They are only thinking of big farming.
I brought the tools. I normally like to read the destructions first before beginning to assembly anything but chaos reigns when four elderly children get a new toy...
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