The Thanksgiving leftovers are all gone now. No more turkey, no more pie, no more cranberries, no more sweet potatoes. All the food we had this year was great. But the turkey this year was the best we ever had! Partly because I was thinking about it being related to the one that dented the hood of the Suburban a few months ago, but mostly because we decided to try cooking it in the Traeger grill instead of in the oven this year. We cook all kinds of other stuff in the Traeger and it all turns out good, so we had to try a turkey. We were going to practice before Thanksgiving to make sure it would turn out but were unable to find the time, so Thanksgiving day was the first try. We had a back up turkey that we cooked in the oven the day before, in case we ruined it, but that didn't get touched on Thanksgiving because it is hard to ruin something on a Traeger.
This is what it looked like coming off the Traeger after 5 hours of cooking. It was so moist and delicious that I could not get enough of it. df a a skdfo{;nui Shb (sorry, had to wipe the drool off the keyboard) From now on, we will cook the turkey this way every year. It was stuffed with some sliced veggies and oranges, then had a home made sweet/spicy rub all over it that made some great drippings for gravy and just to dip the turkey in!
The next thing to try in the Traeger (think Traeger will pay me for saying their name so much?)
a whole deer leg. Just have to find the right recipe. I am getting hungry just thinking about it.
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