Thanksgiving 2004

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:11:19 +0000

Dad and grandma doing a little pre-Thanksgiving packaging of the "bulk bacon!"
Looking so serious with his bacon!
Loaf of fresh bread for baking (under green wrap) and some bread rising for FRIED BREAD. Yummm!!! Oh, can't forget the rhubarb pie under the foil!
Had to get a picture of the incredible bar dad built. I'm working on one too but it won't be anything like this (I'm too cheap).
Calculating how much peanut oil will be needed.
Dad suggested I bring over a turkey and fry it up since everything will already be out and it sounded like a great idea to me. Hmm... the turkey I bought. $1.39 a pound. Was the first turkey I saw so just grabbed it.
Turkey dad bought... only $0.79 a pound. Hey, I wasn't paying attention.
One last look before it goes into the fryer!
Drying the ole bird off after the peanut oil calculatin' was done.
Dad continuing to fondle the turkey. Hmm???
Sliced bread loaf for frying.
Nice loaf of fresh bread.
Grandma being a good supervisor.
Far shot of the bar.
Gots to have The Beast to complete Thanksgiving day!
Grandma trying to find out how long to cook sweet potatos for. She couldn't find anything so I just stuck the darn things in the oven and guess at 30 minutes... they were great. hahahaa
Somebody Made a joke I guess. hahaha
Turkey cook times! Took picture so if I ever forget it is 3.5 minutes per pound I'll have a resource to go look. hhaha
Making the patented Terry Franker curly potato oil cleaning fries!
Droping in the bird
Dropping slowly to try and not make a huge mess!
Little further down!
Almost there!
Getting smokey now
Finally... fully submerged!
Notice the thermometer? A perfect 350 :)
Backyard landscaped pretty darn nice! Wish I could keep my place as nice as Dad and Carol keep theirs... that'll be the day though, eh? hahaha
New boat. Very nice!!!
Complete back shot of house.
Gots to have some candy corn on Thanksgiving to go with the turkey, right? :-)
Turkey bird complete.
Doesn't that look GOOD!?!?
Cleaning the oil up a bit and making some killer fries. Trick to these is the oil at 400... makes em nice and crunchy!
Just about ready to be taken out.
Dad attempting to take them out. The little scooper on the grill works better :)
Yes... they do taste as good as they look!
Gotta get the cores out too.
Ready for carving.
Fried bread hunks have risen up nicely :)
Whoops... forgetting to take the grill off HIGH, beer, and no timer lead to burnt corn. But, mostly just the husk was burnt... corn was GREAT!
Pattying out the bread before plopping it in the fryer.
Looking good so far!
One side done.
Yep... this tasted as good as it looks here too ;)
A meal fit for kings... and grandma the queen!
Grandma going to get a whiskey refill. hahahhaa
Another shot of the feast!
Chowin' down. Doing a number of the fries. hahaha
Desert! Carol's patented rhubarb (need to look up spelling. hahaha!) pie. We are kinda full though. Notice again how Grandma's glass is almost always empty??? Whiskey keeps ya going I guess. hahhaa
Another shot of dad pretending to cut the pie. What isn't shown here is as soon as I put the camera up, he put the pie back away so he could hoard it all for himself later!!!

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Thanksgiving 2004