{"id":33,"date":"2008-11-25T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-11-25T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:15:24","slug":"holiday-recipe-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/holiday-recipe-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday recipe roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/make-a-picture-perfect-turkey\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/culinarycowboy.com\/Recipes\/images\/turkey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"254\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Yep, that gorgeous turkey to your left could be on your table with just a little bit of work (but work well worth it).<\/p>\n<p>First of all, if you are using a frozen turkey, you need to have it defrosted the day before cooking. It should sit in the brine overnight for best results. The brine gives it a <a href='http:\/\/092.me'>nice<\/a>, dark color. If you elect to smoke your turkey, as in the illustration, you can get a <a href='http:\/\/092.me'>nice<\/a>, mahogany color to bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the turkey is not smoked, as that usually involves a long cooking time at low heat. For those who try this on the grill, you will get a <a href='http:\/\/092.me'>nice<\/a> smoked flavor to the turkey. For that matter, you could use the smoke method indoors, but it sure would really smell up the place.  <a href=\"https:\/\/culinarycowboy.com\/Recipes\/Poultry\/Sure-Fire_Turkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">See the full recipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link: Grandma Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dressing\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/grandma-virginias-dressing\/\">Grandma Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dressing<\/a> &#8211; if you don&#8217;t have a good dressing for your Thanksgiving turkey, I strongly recommend this one.  I like mine a bit on the moist side, and I usually add more liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for dessert, pumpkin pie is a favorite.  Besides just offering recipes, we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/a-study-in-pumpkin-pie-pilgrims-to-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Study in Pumpkin Pie<\/a>, which begins with a startling announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We start off in this examination of pumpkin pie with a hard truth.  Most U.S.  pumpkin pie is a lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, that gorgeous turkey to your left could be on your table with just a little bit of work (but work well worth it). First of all, if you are using a frozen turkey, you need to have it defrosted the day before cooking. It should sit in the brine overnight for best results. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,55,56,82,2,57,40,62],"tags":[122,61,137,59,123,101,100,76,124,60,138],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8alb-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culinarycowboy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}