Alright, so first of all we had Thanksgiving Day with the immediate family which was me, my wife, son, daughter, other daughter with her husband and their three beautiful children. If we broke rules I don't care. The way life has been lately we're grabbing life while we can because tomorrow is not promised.
So here is the oven roasted turkey I cooked overnight Wednesday. It was supposed to be a 20 pound turkey that I oven roasted and this one, about 17+ lbs was supposed to get fried Thursday morning. I made my own injection marinade from a stock I made for this purpose and the turkey gravy. I ended up with half a gallon of stock for each the gravy and injection. After making it and injecting bothe turkeys and seasoning both they were put back in the fridge. Wednesday evening about 9:00pm I went to get the turkey to be roasted from the fridge and both looked so big from being injected that I got the two mixed up. Lol...... I realized this the next morning as I was getting the fryer ready for putting the turkey. As luck would have it it was really foggy Thursday morning and as I was heating the oil I decided that since we already had one turkey cooked that with the mist or light drizzle beginning to cancel frying the second turkey. Or rather postpone it at least. After making this call I noticed that the roasted turkey after cooking looked a little smaller. Then I realized I roasted the smaller turkey and that the other one would be tight fit into the turkey fryer pot. So that turkey can't be fried because after noticing this I checked and it will indeed be a really tight squeeze getting that turkey in there. I could've kicked myself. So I'll be roasting another turkey overnight tonight. I may still get another smaller bird to fry during the week since I already have the peanut oil for doing a deep fried turkey and turkey is pretty well enjoyed here.
O.K. now back to my turkey sandwich. Yesterday I stopped in and picked up a fresh loaf of French bread for one of my favorite sandwiches. Then last night for dinner I had THE sandwich.
Normally I have this on sliced bread or slices ofa loaf of homemade bread. Yesterday I just felt like having it in a poboy.
It consists of the bread being warmed, sliced and a little butter slathered on the warm bread, Then warmed cornbread dressing(usually I warm this in a pan to get nice crusty edges on it), warmed sliced turkey with gravy laddle over it. Next comes the cranberry sauce(last night I used the canned version)and finally mayo.
As a poboy this can be a bit of a sloppy sandwich to eat but it's still delicious!
I began making and eating this sandwich almost 40 years ago and it was a cherished tradition to enjoy it while watching early on the movie It's a Wonderful Life and then later on The Christmas Story that was broadcast on Thanksgiving night. A Christmas Carol(in all or the renditions that have been made)was another favorite.
Not a great picture..... There's just something about the sweet and tart and savory with the mayo that makes this sandwich amazing.
I will most likely be enjoying another sandwich tonight but on sliced bread. I have in the past done this as a panini style version and I can't find anything negative about that.
