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Arrived in San Jose this morning, and since the hotel room wasn't quite ready yet, I headed out to Lunardi's to get the first "shopping run" done.
Picked up the turkeys, and about half a garden's worth of veggies (mostly the aromatics that'll flavor many of the dishes - carrots, onions, shallots, celery, garlic, scallions, etc.) They had some nice fresh green beans and Brussels too, so got some of those to go into the crisper for now.
Fruits were acquired too; apples, pears, cranberries, oranges, lemons, limes.
The Lunardi's butchers were kind enough to "part out" the free range turkeys I bought, so I have separate thigh-leg sections, a full breast section, and "stuff" (backbone, wings, tail, giblets, neck).
The "stuff", augmented with some additional tails, necks, and wings, is roasting now, and will go into the pressure cooker with a few aromatic veggies and some chicken broth, to become a turkey stock for several other dishes.
The Sweetened Condensed Milk has be PC'd into Dulce De Leche, and is cooling in the fridge. And a couple gallons of orange juice is simmering gently with some hot peppers to become the basis of the "spicy orange" marinade for the turkeys.
If weather holds, we'll be smoking one turkey and roasting the other on Sunday. And Friday and Saturday will see continuing Pre-positioning work so things go a lot less frantically on feast day. The Cranberry Orange relish, Pear/Apple filling for the crumble, and other items will be finished up and refrigerated to await "finishing touches" and final cooking/baking or (in the case of the relish) plating on Thanksgiving.
Nice being somewhere I can dash about in shirtsleeves again. Was snowing and so icy when I left this morning, we had to delay the flight while they de-iced both the runway and the plane.
Last edited on Thu Nov 21st, 2013 09:42 pm by Vargr
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