How Did Your Thanksgiving Smoke /Dinner Turn Out?

[gravey]

This had to be the best ever Thanksgiving, for a number of reasons. Smoked my first turkey in my ECB, and it turned out gorgeous! It was a 12# youngling that I rubbed with Tony Chachere's Creole seasoning and injected with the Creole Butter. That bird smoked (no pun intended) my dad's bird that he did on his Weber. He did a 22 #er that was plain as cardboard (sorry Dad..). We had 18 ppl at the dinner and all that was left of my bird was a thigh and a leg. What was left of Dad's?...Everything but a couple slices of the breast!

Also best ever, because of other reasons besides my amazing turkey, but we won't delve into that!

 

[seenred]

Ours was both bad and good. Had to go out of town for Thanksgiving day dinner at my in-laws house. My mother-in-law is generally a good cook, but she can't cook a turkey for sh#@. To start with, she doesn't smoke meat

, so the bird was roasted in the oven. It was so overcooked that it had no flavor and was very dry. But she did make a strawberry cheesecake that was good enough to make your tongue slap your brain! So it wasn't a total loss.
I came home Friday and smoked up a 12 lb. bird for dinner at my mother's house on Saturday. Now that turkey turned out great. I posted qview of it here

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...ad.php?t=84483

 

[silverwolf636]

Thanx to the gang here, this was the best turkey I've ever eaten. It had the most flavorful, tenderest and juiciest turkey I/we have ever eaten. It was a nine pounder and took exactly five hours.
Thanx gang.

 

[fishinjoe]

I did a turkey for the first time and took it up to deer camp, now thanks to this great site everyone there wants me to do one for them. I was very surprised at how well it turned out, thanks everyone.

Joe

 

[gnubee]

I did a Thai stir fry with smoked Chicken breast that was the bomb. There were just the two of us this year because we were still in isolation with the flu and didn't want to give it to our family.

After all these years of turning out Asian stir fry/stew slop because I was doing it wrong. Stir fry is about the only thing I didn't do right for some reason. I bought a much bigger propane burner and I turned up the heat under the wok till the oil just started to smoke, tossed in the ingredients and made an absolutely awesome meal. Twice the heat and 1/2 the ingredients was the trick. Plus put the bean sprouts and zuccini in after the heat is off. Veggies and noodles came out crispy and great as opposed to their usual watery limp and blah tasting.

What a great day to learn neat stuff like that.

Might even change my web name to wan gnu guy.