Making of the Thanksgiving turkeyAs promised, here is how I ended up preparing an Italian Thanksgiving! I have to say it was very fun to cook the turkey and prepare the stuffing, but I think this is going to be the first and last time I make a stuffed Thanksgiving turkey for so many people! We were only 27 friends plus some young children...
Making of the Thanksgiving turkeyFirst, as usual, I have to thank Marco, who shared with me this olympic-size cooking adventure, and her wife Valentina that offered also to clean the roasting pan :-)
The Thanksgiving dinner was a great success not only for our big roasted bird, but also for all the dishes our friends made and brought to our party: dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, lasagne, spinach salad, grilled zucchini, quiches, brussels sprouts, mashed potato, roasted sweet potato and, of course, the unforgettable pumpkin pie! Dinner rolls - Rosted zucchiniCranberry Sauce - Brussels sproutsLet's start from the planning of the Turkey. Since we were so many people we decided to buy a 21lb (about 10kg) turkey that takes "only" 4 to 5 hours to cook. A bigger one it would required to wake up too early on Thanksgiving day to give it enough time to cook, and neither me nor Marco were happy with that. But, you know, Italians are always worried that they won't have enough food on their table, so we decided to make meat-based stuffing to add more meat at the turkey.
We met on Wednesday afternoon to prepare the stuffing and brine th...