For those who have been following the gravy threads recently, you might get a kick out of this one. It was fun, different, original (as far as I know), and extremely good!! I smoked a turkey not long ago on the Rec Tec and after a couple meals pulled all the meat off the bones, vac sealed it by light and dark meat designations, and put it in the freezer. Pulled out a pack of the dark meat for this one and a small tub of the drippings to make the gravy. The day I made this I received a new 14" semi-deep dish CI pizza pan from Amazon so figured I'd give it a shot and break it in.
Started out with several cloves of fresh garlic and chopped them up to roast
The turkey defrosted
Gravy all done. Been through this a time or two so won't bore all of you with a step by step
Garlic roasted
Chop up the turkey
Spread the dough out on the pan, turkey first, then gravy
Add some fresh broccoli (for Tracy) and the roasted garlic
A bunch of fresh, shredded whole milk mozzarella
Onto the grill. About 20 minutes in I moved it to the top rack
All done
Get it out of the CI pan so it doesn't burn from the residual heat
A couple of slices plated up and ready to eat
No question this was bizarre but it was incredibly good!! The dark meat was the best way to go for flavor. The roasted garlic added a LOT to the profile, but that gravy is what set it over the top. Made with the drippings from the turkey, it was stellar. We didn't think going in that it'd be bad in any way but were totally amazed by how good it came out. The only request from the other half is that I add some spinach next time. I like spinach so no issues there from my standpoint. I'm absolutely loving that CI pizza pan. It heats and cooks so much more evenly than just tossing the pizza onto the stone. The crust was perfect all across the bottom and up to the top. I'm gonna have a ball with this thing, I can tell you that. Now...to continue the very fun trend that a whole lot of people are enjoying: GO #TeamGravy!! gotta tag a couple folks on this one who have been really amping up the fun with the gravy and CI cooks:
Brokenhandle
Misplaced Nebraskan
Oh, Almost forgot...when I posted the tri tip lasagna, our good friend Al (
SmokinAl
) commented that he had no idea what I might come up with to top that as far as bizarre goes. This one might just do it 
I guess we'll see y'all on the next installment of SMF's version of The Twilight Zone
Robert
Started out with several cloves of fresh garlic and chopped them up to roast
The turkey defrosted
Gravy all done. Been through this a time or two so won't bore all of you with a step by step
Garlic roasted
Chop up the turkey
Spread the dough out on the pan, turkey first, then gravy
Add some fresh broccoli (for Tracy) and the roasted garlic
A bunch of fresh, shredded whole milk mozzarella
Onto the grill. About 20 minutes in I moved it to the top rack
All done
Get it out of the CI pan so it doesn't burn from the residual heat
A couple of slices plated up and ready to eat
No question this was bizarre but it was incredibly good!! The dark meat was the best way to go for flavor. The roasted garlic added a LOT to the profile, but that gravy is what set it over the top. Made with the drippings from the turkey, it was stellar. We didn't think going in that it'd be bad in any way but were totally amazed by how good it came out. The only request from the other half is that I add some spinach next time. I like spinach so no issues there from my standpoint. I'm absolutely loving that CI pizza pan. It heats and cooks so much more evenly than just tossing the pizza onto the stone. The crust was perfect all across the bottom and up to the top. I'm gonna have a ball with this thing, I can tell you that. Now...to continue the very fun trend that a whole lot of people are enjoying: GO #TeamGravy!! gotta tag a couple folks on this one who have been really amping up the fun with the gravy and CI cooks:
Brokenhandle
Misplaced Nebraskan
Oh, Almost forgot...when I posted the tri tip lasagna, our good friend Al (
SmokinAl
) commented that he had no idea what I might come up with to top that as far as bizarre goes. This one might just do it I guess we'll see y'all on the next installment of SMF's version of The Twilight Zone
Robert
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