Author: doug

My two cooking tasks today are from opposite ends of a few scales: 1. Make a vegan version of my Spanish lentil stew for work potluck tomorrow. 2. Go outside and use a dremel, wedge, and 2-lb sledgehammer to split beef marrow bones for Tuesday’s dinner.

Let me tell you about my mother.

I made vinegar from leftover cranberry wine from Thanksgiving, and it developed a “mother of vinegar”. What, you didn’t think I meant my own mother?

I accidentally made myself the Millennium Falcon (in potato pancake form) for breakfast this morning.

And a good time was had by all.

I see no reason to cook a whole turkey a different way than this. It comes out so well, and so easy to carve. And perhaps more importantly, it results in a large amount of excellent stuffing.

I cooked the legs and wings sous vide. They have now been reunited with the breast, which has been roasting atop the stuffing, to crisp up.

It took quite a while to tip & tail all these.

The key to not having a ton of leftover mashed potatoes: the scale. Five ounces per person is plenty.