His & hers turkeys

Thought I'd share some photos of the turkeys that we made for Thanksgiving...our favorite holiday.

The one on the left is what Darla made. Well, there was a whole brood of them, actually. She got the idea from a catalog. Her turkeys were spice cake cupcakes with caramel icing. The tail feathers were Fruit Rollups, the necks were Nutter Butter cookies, and the eyes were dried cherries "glued" on with caramel icing. And of course a candy corn beak. The turkeys looked good when it mattered, but the moistness of the cake soon ruined the tail feathers and the necks.

The one on the right is the real turkey (foreground) that I (background, so you're not confused) smoked on my grill. This was the second year that I smoked my own turkey (with hickory wood). It's really the only way to go...an extension of my father's famous smoked turkeys of years past. But with my job in VA, we haven't been able to get down to SC for Thanksgiving, so my parents (and this year, my brother) came up for the holiday.

The smoked turkey is on the grill for most of the day on Thursday. It went on before 8 a.m. -- thanks to Darla (but that's a story for another post) and it came off around 4 p.m. Just right, too!

Posted by JRC at November 29, 2004 07:06 PM | TrackBack