It's just the boy and me for Thanksgiving Day here, so we're going the traditional route for dinner today.
Yep - snow crab and grilled steak
My side of the family is doing the full-blown Thanksgiving meal/get-together on Saturday. I'm in charge of the turkey. Here's what I'm doing.
I've got two 12-13 lb turkeys. I'll grill them Saturday morning. But I'm brining them in advance. Last night, prepared a brine solution consisting of chicken stock, some white wine, 1/2 cup of sea salt, pepper, and a couple gallons of water. I put that all on the stove and added chopped cilantro, fresh thyme, bay leaves, carrots, fresh garlic cloves, green onions, some corn on the cob, and a couple of quartered oranges. I brought that to a boil and simmered for an hour till I had a really nice stock and put it in the fridge to cool overnight.
This morning, washed down my two turkeys, and put them in big pot with a clean garbage bag containing the brine solution, weighting them down so they'll stay covered for the next two days.
Saturday, I'll pull them out, rinse them down, stuff the interior with garlic, poultry herbs, and orange quarters, rub down the exterior with olive oil, salt and pepper them, then put them on the grill to cook indirectly for 3-4 hours.
I put them in a cheap foil pan with an inch of water in the bottom to keep them from scorching and also cover them with foil until the last hour so wings and bony areas don't burn.
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awesome story. Oddly, that's almost how dry I like my turkey 
