Ohhhh yeah, I deep-fried the turkey! Three of them, in fact! All on Christmas Eve. Two 12-pound full-sized birds for friends and a turkey breast for my own family gathering.
Here’s the first bird that I did…
The second turkey…
And the turkey breast: smaller but no less succulent!
And hey, look who showed up! None other than Tebow Wasmund, the popular pup (who was recently seen as Sandy the dog in a production of Annie) and his mistress Peggy! Tebow is well known around here as he is often courting admirers at iCoffee in nearby Summerfield. It’s a great lil’ coffee house and well worth visiting!
I guess you just can’t keep a good dog away from the scent of fried turkey 😛
And ’twas a good thing that I got all that frying done on Christmas Eve ‘cuz the next day, we got our first real White Christmas in almost fifty years…
In case anyone is wondering, I used Lost: The Final Season as the soundtrack to which I fried this batch of turkeys to.
Incidentally, I have come up with a pretty… shall we say, “interesting?”… idea for a new turkey fryer. And there is already someone that I am conspiring with to make it into a reality. Guess that’ll be a project to work on for 2011. Expect pictures and YouTube video if/when we pull it off.
And, that wraps up turkey frying for the 2010 holiday season! So help me, my hands will be smelling like garlic butter for a whole ‘nother month.
Do you do anything to the turkey before frying, such as inject a marinade or other flavors? One fried turkey I had was simply injected with melted butter. Very moist and tasty!
I use a garlic butter marinade, usually found in good supply at Food Lion. But I have tried others before… including the now-infamous "Marinade X" a few years ago.