A Little Preview

I am sitting here, thinking about a lot of things and wondering, 'What in the heck am I doing taking on a project of this magnitude?'

Perhaps it's just shameless self-promotion. But I am more inclined to think and hope that it is because I want to set my mind to something and do it.

This is the format most of these blogs will take:

Recipe
Episode Title
Main Ingredients
Prep/Cook Time
Any Tips/Tricks and did they help?
Ease of Preparation
Taste
Notes

As an example

Recipe: Roast Turkey
Episode Title: Romancing the Bird
Main Ingredients: Turkey, Brine (salt, sugar, etc...) Various Aromatics
Prep/Cook Time: About 8 Hours total

Tips/Tricks
I found that sticking the turkey in a brine was really an ingenious thing. It helped the turkey stand up to my unreliable oven. I used a store-bought package of fresh poultry seasoning herbs, vegetable broth, peppercorns, brown and white sugar and salt for the brine and it turned out nice. Also, covering the breast meat with foil really did help it from overcooking and stay just right.

Ease of Preparation: Easy enough, but it can be kinda hard to wrangle a turkey.

Taste: Completely fool-proof. The turkey is not masked by the herbage and aromatics stuffed into the cavity, but enhanced by it.

Notes
This was the first real recipe I ever tried using one of ABs methods, and boy did it make a complete difference. This was the recipe that made me go, 'This man is a prince of the kitchen.' After living with dried meat and the so-called "traditional" Thanksgiving turkey, I now insist upon cooking the bird each and every year.