Doug's Project 365

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.

5 pounds of cut-up root vegetables, ready for roasting. Parsnip, carrot, celery root, and 3 kinds of beets.