So, do what works for you.Feel free to use both thermometers… why not!?! When I’ve cooked turkeys without a built in thermometer I’ve under cooked them in the past when I’ve just stuck a thermometer in the thigh, received the reading of 165 degrees, took it out of the oven and when I’ve carved it up later I’ve discovered a pink bird. I always use a turkey with a built in thermometer as I’ve had issues with the done-ness in the past. Can’t have a dry turkey! That’s the worst. Plus the vegetable and the liquid in the bottom of the pan also helps keep the turkey from drying out. The turkey is really moist as the skin locks in the moisture. A big turkey cooked up on a Sunday would give us plenty of leftovers for lunches and dinners for a few days. It’s probably because I’ve been enjoying the work week more when I have dinner prepped or pre made so we are just assembling or reheating it. We did do an early Thanksgiving which was awesome but I’ve been thinking about making a turkey recently. So I’ve had turkey on the brain every since. (Side note: our super sweet Chilean neighbor brought us over some food- shrimp cocktail, roasted pork, and rice.) I know what you are going to say, you’re going to say “But you make ham for Easter!” This is true but we didn’t have turkey on Thanksgiving since we had just brought Autumn home Monday night and none of us were going to whip up a turkey just a few days later. I love cooking for holidays but I’m just not sure what to make for Easter. My mom is coming up from Florida for a visit and it happens to be Easter weekend. Remove from oven, place on wire rack to cool.įiled Under: Pies and Tarts, Recipes Tagged With: a year of pie, Baking, baking pie, brown sugar, brown sugar chess pie, Chess Pie, eggs, pie Turkey with a Brown-Sugar Glaze If edges are browning too quickly, cover with foil. Stir in the eggs, cornmeal, vinegar, and vanilla extract until fully combined.Melt the butter and add it to the sugars.In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the sugar.I think it’s nice that it sets it apart from the other pies for that reason. It’s subtle so you know it’s there but it’s not all up in your face. The brown sugar gives it a nice caramel flavor that isn’t over the top. But it’s so good that you can get over the cavity you’ll have after eating it. But I swear you wouldn’t even know it.Īll of the Chess Pies that I made were sweet but this was swaaaa-eeeaaattt! Got it? I’d say that you should skip the 8 slice cutting, and just go to 12-16 slices. And when you read the recipe and think ‘cornmeal, really?’ you’ll now know that it’s no mistake, there is cornmeal in the filling. Well, a little wiki later and ta-da! I know what a Chess Pie is! It’s a sugary custard pie that has it’s roots in England but has now become a Southern thing. So every week Price asked me what Chess Pie was and I’d say “I dunno, but it sure is sugary!” Super helpful, no? Oh, how is it already the end of June?!?! The month has breezed by! This just means that this is the last of my chess pies for the month of June! We’re both heading back to our guys’ hometown for the 4th of July so I’m sure we’ll get to hang there. I think she’ll he really successful as she has this great charm about her, which will help her communicate with her clients. She is wrapping up her degree to be in social work. It’s always so good to be able to share news, ideas, and funny stories to the point where you have tears in your eyes.Īllie is the kind of person who you feel you’ve known for decades but have only know each other a short period of time. On Christmas to be exact! It was such a good night with dinner, drinks, and lots of catching up. On Monday I went to dinner with my friend Allie, who also had a baby last year. It has been such a busy week, but such a great week.
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