How Big Is Your Bird?
 

:eyes: Whats she weigh and how many are dining on her? We got a 27 pounder (not inches:hihi: ) and we got 8 for dinner!:drool: Can you say tryptophan?:yawn:

Sidenote: Who eats the turkey neck? It was always a tradition for me at my Moms growing up......I love it! Its the tastiest part of the turkey IMO!:drool:

10lb
 

for 4 of us smallest bird I ever had cant eat none but thats allright.

Ours is 19 and it's big enough. Over 20 and it becomes more difficult to cook evenly...

Put the neck in the roasting pan and let it add some caramelized goodness to the drippings for the gravy.

My menu for tomorrow:

• Calvados-Laced Squash Soup with Cinnamon and Bay Leaves
  
• Roast Turkey with Herb Butter and Caramelized-Onion Gravy
  
• Leek and Wild Mushroom Stuffing
  
• Red Potatoes Tossed in Roasted-Garlic Butter with Sage and Bacon
  
• Green Beans with Orange and Rosemary Gremolata
  
• Cassis-Spiked Cranberry Sauce
  
• Good old Apple Pie :)

-spence

I'm go over in laws so no cooking for me. My friends brother raised his own last year and it weighed 43 pounds dressed out. He said it will be bigger this year.

Do you eat it the long way :heybaby:

ours is 18 pounds we are haveing 8 for dindin

nice lineup spence

birds 20 in our home with 8 eating

Geez P. over #43, did he start cookin it yesterday. :huh: :laughs:

That's an intimidating turkey. I used to work on a turkey farm as a kid. They were almost as tall as me when they got that big. You do NOT want a bird that big attacking your shins with it's talons, whether you're still a kid or all grown up....

The big ones seems to get territorial...

How do you cook a bird that big?!

I have two boids - each weighing 14 1/2 lbs. We cook them for a family gathering of 16. It is easier to cook two birds and all the stuffings - that eliminates the battle over the drumsticks and dark meat against the white meet. After carving the meat left over is usually 1/2 a breast of turky.:as:
I also personaly think smaller birds are tastier and do not dry out as the biguns sometimes do.:yawn:

I had a 2 pound Perdue chicken for supper tonight from one of the the food pantrys here in Brockton, I was thankful.


Does that count ?

Not to big.

Jane is going to have dinner with her mother at the nursing home and I'm gonna cook a small 11lb bird for my myself and my dad.

Not the Thanksgiving we had planned but her mother is doing better and my dad is well.

no cooking until Sat for me....then I am cooking a 14lb Bird and a Ham....for 4......

We had a 22 lber on sunday at Dad's that fed 11 with 5 of them being kids.

We're having a 26.5 lber tomorrow here for us FOUR

BURP :hee:

i havent weighed it......i'd say mine is only 10-12lbs but i got it free from work so i cant complain


fresh not frozen

15# Turk and a big A$$ Ham...:drool: :drool: :drool:

strike king..............I love your avatar

we have a 23 pounder at my parents house tomorrow, then another 23 pounder in a few weeks. I am a turkey hound!

I dont know...Going over my brothers...Sometimes he has something other than turkey...Its always good tho..:drool:

Last 2 were both 24, smaller one tomorrow, 18.
I hate multiple Thanksgivings!
Lata,
Rick

got a 12# for the wife and me, cooking time app. 3 hours and 40 min.:uhuh:

just weighed mine.......came in at 12# on the boga :D

We have 24 coming over and are cooking two birds at 20-pounds each ...

... prepared them last night until 12:15 a.m. ... bed at 1 a.m. ... then got up at 4 a.m. to put one in the oven ... back up at 5 a.m. to check on it ... then back up at 6 a.m. because of little miss Sydney -- my daughter who's just under 2 yrs and up ever since preparing for the day and playing with Sydney ... yikes!

As for the turkey necks ... Julie wanted to keep them in a pot outside, covered ... I warned her against racoons ... but go figure, we come down, let the dog out, continue working and go check on the dog ... both turkey necks eaten by dog and gizzards all over the courtyard ...:hihi: Oh Well ... it felt a little like that move "A Christmas Story" when they guys turkey gets trashed ... all's well now.

Enjoy

In Provincetown the necks are very popular!:bshake: :laugha:

measured it
 

22 inches long by 16 inches wide

for a family of 2 :)

23# family of 4 with taters, squash, turnip, stuffing, biscuits pumpkin pie, Banana bread, cranberry
All the regular stuff nothing fancy!!

Will have sandwiches for a day or so then the rest will end up being soup!

BELCH :hidin:

OMG I am so full, nap time.

Leftover turkey dark meat and stuffing sandwiches on swedish rye bread. Montillio's coconut creme pie. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Had my brother over, squid kid's dad, and most of the rest of the fam. Its nice to see my mother eat a full meal. Three months ago she had a tumr removed from her stomach.

My brother-in-law showed up with my sister and he never leaves the house on holidays.

18 lb. 1 cooked in a trash can (mine). 3 deep fried. its a big clan. oh by the way we ate outside in 75 degree. did think of you though....