Looks good but thanksgiving isn't for 2 days?
Right you are. We still do holidays at Mama's house. Kind of centrally located and none of the kids have to drive more than a couple hours. Problem is that all the women folk spend so much time in the kitchen preparing, then cleaning up so Mama doesn't have to do it. This year we're trying to minimize prep and cleanup at her small house in her very small kitchen.
Carving the turkey, both for the meal and leftover containers, takes up her whole counter, and contributes significantly to cleanup congestion. So this year I'm gonna carve the turkey at my house, and just take a platter of meat. I'll also slice the breasts and make some take-home packages so everyone can have sammiches after they go home.
So cook the turkey yesterday, slice and prepare platter and sammich-meat packages today, go to Mama's tomorrow morning with no-muss-no-fuss meat and doggie bags. I brined the turkey for 24 hours, and monitored internal temps w/ wireless thermometers while cooking. So I hope it will still be good and juicy when warmed up tomorrow. We'll see. If not, it won't be the first time I ruined the holiday meat.
