Follow our recommendations, and your first Thanksgiving turkey can look like this!
We are gratified that our copycat Durkee’s recipe is currently the top trending post on Burnt My Fingers. Gratified because this is a near perfect match for the original Durkee’s Famous Sauce which is sold out on Amazon and at punitive markups through other sources; Thanksgiving hacks folks who follow our simple formula will have an ideal lubricant for their post-Turkey Day sandwiches.
This year we are also grateful for far-flung family members who will be visiting from out of town, and we want to give them a satisfying experience. We will dry brine our bird since our liquid brining bucket appears to have been repurposed for garden compost plus this no-fuss method sacrifices nothing in tender juicy meet and crackling skin.
We like to experiment in the kitchen but Thanksgiving is not the time for that. We will serve a traditional meal with our stuffing (both inside the bird and on the side), a generous green salad (leftovers to be used in sandwiches the next day), mashed potatoes both white and sweet and a green vegetable to be determined.
The next day, for what is actually our favorite meal of the holiday, we will enjoy turkey sandwiches with aforementioned copycat Durkee’s plus a side of leftover stuffing with gravy and cranberry sauce. Then we will proceed to our diligent work to repurpose the leftovers before we get sick of them.
If this is your first time hosting Thanksgiving, here is a helpful guide. Enjoy the day with shared company and don’t stress, which may be the best Thanksgiving hack of all. Gobble gobble!
