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by **Aquabuggy** » 26 Thu Nov, 2009 11:42 am

Happy Thanksgiving!!
Dont eat too much turkey, gotta save room for some pie ;-)

by **Bill K** » 26 Thu Nov, 2009 1:20 pm

BEST WISHES FOR A GREAT THANKSGIVING TO ONE AND ALL

bill & linda

by **CoryN** » 26 Thu Nov, 2009 2:04 pm

Blessed Thanksgiving Wishes to All!

Cory & Lisa and boys

by **Hawk** » 26 Thu Nov, 2009 5:08 pm

Hey Chris! I think i figured it out this year and had pie first

by **Texasbuggys** » 26 Thu Nov, 2009 8:22 pm

I fried two turkeys and we did a honey baked ham! Not to mention all the sweets afterwords!!

by **Aquabuggy** » 26 Thu Nov, 2009 10:16 pm

Hawk wrote:Hey Chris! I think i figured it out this year and had pie first

Good thinking there, but if I tried that momma would slap my hand before I could get to the pie. :lol:

by **Hawk** » 27 Fri Nov, 2009 8:44 am

70 people at dinner and none of them my mother, Loretta, Linda, Gayna, Jane didn't say a thing about me having pie first. What a great day!

by **Bill K** » 27 Fri Nov, 2009 9:40 am

70 PEOPLE Man you entertain on a big scale. You deserve a pie for that.

by **ElijahTurtle** » 27 Fri Nov, 2009 10:30 am

Neil 70 people is insane! I deep fried 2 turkeys & a rack of ribs, the ribs were a first for me with deep fryer, but definitely awesome! My wife was getting stressed out around my crazy family so we cam home a day early so she could get in some"retail therapy" along with all the other crazy people today.
Brought home plenty of leftovers though along with all the dressing & ham I toted off, I brought home 2 whole sweet potato pies that my mom made. I'm gonna do my best to eat most of one by my self today =)

by **ckolek** » 27 Fri Nov, 2009 12:55 pm

elijah, more info on the fried ribs please..

by **ElijahTurtle** » 27 Fri Nov, 2009 6:59 pm

I did the fried ribs while we were heating the fryer for the turkeys.
I coated a rack of beef ribs liberally in a dry rub of Tex-Joy BBQ Seasoning, Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning & some steak seasoning. When the oil hit 275F I dropped the rack in for 5 minutes @ the five minute mark, I pulled them & hit them again with a dash of the BBQ seasoning again & dropped the for another 4-5 minutes. Then they were done. Most of the seasoning will stick to the ribs, but it also infuses the oil which gets down into the meat too. The trial run mix I used was:
50% BBQ seasoning
25% Creole seasoning
25% Steak seasoning
I mixed together in a bowl & sprinkled it on both sides. If you use a sharp knife to cut an X shape pattern on the back of the ribs, it will open up the membrane enough to let the seasoning infuse from that side too.

In retrospect, next time I will probably do an even mix of the BBQ & Creole plus add a small bit of chili powder so I get a little bit of kick & probably a tidbit of sage & cumin for depth of flavor. I will say that I prefer them slow cooked in the over or on the smoker but if you want some fast hearty ribs, or you're cooking for alot of people on short notice, this is a good way to do it. I'm definitely going to perfect this method a little more.

by **ckolek** » 27 Fri Nov, 2009 9:39 pm

we are going to try this tommorrow along with some chickens and bacon...ill let you know how this comes out, that is if we dont have a heart attack first.. :lol:

by **ElijahTurtle** » 28 Sat Nov, 2009 12:21 am

Let me know what you think. Maybe give some ideas about what you might change. I bet the chickens will turn out good. I was going to try a rock hen this way, but will try it next time.
My cooking times were just a wild guess so I got lucky on that part. It definitely isn't as tender as 6 hours in a smoker at 225F, but it's going to be hard to beat that anyhow.

by **1badfrog** » 28 Sat Nov, 2009 7:21 am

We do chickens all the time and they are great ... This year I threw in some corn on the cob after the turkey was done (8 minutes frozen - 4-5 non) and everybody loved them. Will have to try ribs ... haven't thought of doing them.
Bruce

by **BrianB** » 30 Mon Nov, 2009 8:22 am

Hope everyone had a safe holiday. I also expect that a lot of dune buggy related working was also accomplished. 8-)

by **ElijahTurtle** » 30 Mon Nov, 2009 12:09 pm

Didn't get work done on the buggy, but I got a set of rollers on the 62 & got it out of the way, so now I can finally get the buggy out of the barn. Plan to have it home in a couple of weeks.

by **BrianB** » 30 Mon Nov, 2009 12:50 pm

Did you document the festivities in the barn?

by **ElijahTurtle** » 30 Mon Nov, 2009 2:49 pm

Nah, didn't bother with it since I wasn't messing with the buggy. Spent a couple of hours airing up the tires & hunting down a sufficient quantity of lug nuts to re-mount one the wheels to the 62 stepside so I could move it. I have no idea why someone would take just one the wheels off of my truck. Oddly no one in my family would "fess up". The least they could have done was left the lug nuts there. It took me over an hour just to find four so I could put it on long enough to tow it with the tractor & since they didn't bother to block up the bare wheel hub, it was sitting in the mud & is now frozen solid.
It would have definitely been an epic pictoral adventure, but I wasn't in the mood at that point. LOL

by **blackthree4me** » 30 Mon Nov, 2009 5:46 pm

hope everyone returned from the holiday with all intact and then some

had a good time in OK but glad to be back to the mild weather.

now back to the Ranch buggy !

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