{"id":251,"date":"2009-11-28T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2009-11-28T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T17:37:00","slug":"251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/2009\/11\/251\/","title":{"rendered":"Add the turkey to the mixture&#8230; (USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why at all? We scheduled one of our Amherst-meetings to be close to Thanksgiving. If you remember the blog entry from 2 years ago: Back then we bought a &#8222;Thanksgiving-turkey-set&#8220; at Big Y with everything needed in it and celebrated Thanksgiving the American way (see blog entry &#8222;<a href=\"http:\/\/keke.netz-zwerge.de\/blog\/archives\/49-Happy-Thanksgiving!.html\" title=\"Happy Thanksgiving!\">Happy Thanksgiving!<\/a>&#8222;).<br \/>\nWe had hoped to do the same again this year but there was just a small problem: no supermarket selling turkey-sets! So &#8222;DIY&#8220; or &#8222;German-Engineering&#8220; was plan b.<\/p>\n<p>First I called a local butcher to order a turkey for 7 persons. This doesn&#8217;t sound too difficult but it wasn&#8217;t as easy as that. It took some time until I reached the point when the woman on the phone believed me that I wanted a whole turkey and not only pieces and bits of it. In the end: mission resolved!<\/p>\n<p>Next was choosing the perfect recipe and ready&#8230; goooo!<br \/>\n<strong> &#8222;1.<em> In a large bowl, combine all juices, honey, oil, mint, citrus peels, salt, pepper, herbs and spices. Mix well. Add turkey to the mixture, turning a few times to cover with marinade.&#8220;<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8230; wait a minute: &#8222;Add turkey to mixture&#8220;? Shouldn&#8217;t it be the other way around? Strange idea!<br \/>\nBut we won&#8217;t pull out at that (remember &#8222;German Engineering&#8220;!) so: take a big plastic bag, first add the turkey and then (!) the mixture! That would look like the following:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 2.5cm;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute1.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While the turkey then may enjoy some rest and peace, freezing in the fridge (at least I&#8217;d be freezing, at those temperatures and having lost my feathers!) we took advantage of the freetime the next morning and the empty oven and baked a couple of Christmas cookies (very popular in Germany). Every year or so they may be finished even before the first Advent. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 2.5cm;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute12.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As the oven now is nicely preheated, we again add turkey to the mixture or rather: add mixture to the turkey, plug in two meat-thermometers and finally give the turkey a new nice warm home. At the beginning uncovered we soon covered it with aluminium foil just to uncover it shortly before it is done.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 2.5cm;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute3.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then all there was left to do, was to wait&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute14.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute15.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the turkey enjoyed the sauna:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute6.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute7.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute8.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIn between we brushed the turkey with some more mixture. About 3-4 hours later the turkey was ready!<\/p>\n<p>The turkey was delicious, it had a lot of meat &#8211; definitely more than I would have expected (I rather expected some more bones):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute9.jpg\"><\/a> => <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute10.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n=> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/Pute11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kekex.de\/oldblog\/pics\/sml_Pute11.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anybodys mouth starting to water?<br \/>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why at all? We scheduled one of our Amherst-meetings to be close to Thanksgiving. If you remember the blog entry from 2 years ago: Back then we bought a &#8222;Thanksgiving-turkey-set&#8220; at Big Y with everything needed in it and celebrated Thanksgiving the American way (see blog entry &#8222;Happy Thanksgiving!&#8222;). We had hoped to do the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/2009\/11\/251\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Add the turkey to the mixture&#8230; (USA)<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaarlsruhe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kekex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}