Six hundred and fortieth chapters roast turkey is very simple
By the afternoon of Wednesday, most companies, factories, shops, and schools had finished get off work early, and the streets were full of people rushing home. If it was a big city like New York, the highways would be jammed. It can last until very late. This day is equivalent to the 29th day of the Spring Festival for us Chinese.
Starting from the next day, which is Thursday, Thanksgiving Day officially begins. Everyone in the family has to get up early in the morning and then start to decorate for the festival. Usually the man of the house takes the children to clean the streets and lawns outside the door.
Or in the garden, the hostess began to scrub and scrub in the kitchen, taking out all the highest-end china and silverware in the house, washing and wiping them one by one, putting them in the cupboard for later use, and then marinated the large turkey she bought with salt water and pepper.
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At 9 o'clock, the whole family sat together and watched the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) on TV. This Macy's is Macy's Department Store, and this parade is sponsored by this company. Every Thanksgiving Day
It starts at 9 o'clock in the morning, come
Since then, parades from all over the United States have gathered in New York to parade through the streets. There are tens of thousands of performers alone, and countless people are watching the performances. The parade lasts for 3 hours before it ends. At this time, except for New Yorkers
, most other families in the United States eat snacks while watching the parade, basically skipping lunch.
In the afternoon, it was basically time for the home chef to perform, mainly to deal with the huge turkey. The turkey Sam bought weighed 6 kilograms. It is said that it is not a large size, but can only be classified as small or medium-sized.
, large turkeys are generally about 8 kilograms, and they are net weight, without feathers and internal organs.
Hong Tao was more curious about the American holiday dinner, and he could cook himself, so visiting Mrs. Burgess’s cooking became the only fun he could find this afternoon. Now there is no place to go out and play, basically all entertainment
Facilities and commercial outlets are closed.
This turkey has been marinated by Mrs. Burgess with salt water and pepper in the morning. The marinating process takes about 5 or 6 hours, which is enough time after lunch. At this time, the turkey needs to be rinsed with water.
, then chop off the chicken butt and throw it away, put it on kitchen paper to absorb the moisture from the turkey, and set it aside for later use.
European and American cooking will put a lot of spices, such as thyme, rosemary and the like, just like the green onions, coriander, and cumin we use. You also need to prepare these for roasting turkey. In addition, you need to prepare some vegetables. These vegetables need to be added
Roasted in the belly of the turkey, the purpose is to absorb the
To collect the fat and aroma from the chicken belly. Mrs. Burgess prepared carrots, celery, onions and potatoes. These vegetables needed to be cut into small dices. Hong Tao volunteered to do it. Although his knife skills are not good, he can cut them.
There is no problem in dicing the shredded potatoes.
After cutting these things, divide them into two parts, and stuff the other half into the belly from the butt of the chicken until it is full. Then use thin stainless steel wire to thread the openings at both ends of the chicken. Now take a large one
Place the remaining diced vegetables on the bottom of a baking sheet (a plate made of thick tin foil, available in supermarkets), and place a grill on the plate. Cover with tin foil and set aside.
You can't put the turkey in the oven to roast yet, because you haven't added those spices yet. First chop the thyme and rosemary into fine pieces, then put a piece of butter in the microwave and heat it for a few dozen seconds, and the butter will become
Liquid state. At this time, add the ground spices into the butter and stir evenly.
In the past, the turkey was rubbed. Finally, put the turkey on the grill in the baking pan and bake it in an oven preheated to 425 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour. Take it out, rub the spice liquid again, and then put it in
Bake in an oven at over 300 degrees Fahrenheit for another 2 and a half hours before it is finally finished.
By cooking with Mrs. Burgess, Hong Tao discovered that Americans cook like they do chemistry experiments. There is always a small electronic scale next to the chopping board, and there are always a few recipes posted on the cabinet. How many grams of meat are there when cooking?
How many grams of side dishes, how many grams of spices, how many grams of salt and butter, etc. must be weighed before mixing according to the proportions written in the recipe.
What surprised Hong Tao the most was that after the turkey was taken out of the oven, Mrs. Burgess inserted a small watch dial-like thing into the turkey. Hong Tao got closer and took a closer look. It should be a thermometer.
, and its function is to display the temperature inside the chicken to prevent everyone from getting burned when eating chicken!
"Are you all fools? You can't take a small bite first to see if it's hot? Are your facial features white?" When Hong Tao asked about the function of this small watch, he despised these Americans in his heart.
, isn’t this purely unnecessary? If humans continue to live like this, sooner or later all their facial features will degenerate and they will become an octopus with a big head!
In addition to roasting the turkey, Mrs. Burgess also made a pumpkin pie, hummus and a vegetable salad. In addition, there were 2 or 3 kinds of sauces, such as tomato hot sauce, brandy sauce, etc. This is
To add some flavor to the turkey.
It is said to be the most important Thanksgiving dinner of the year. In fact, it only includes 4 dishes, but the portion is relatively large. The turkey weighing more than ten kilograms is enough for a family of 5. However,
In terms of richness and taste changes, there is no comparison with Chinese food. During the Spring Festival in China, no matter it is a big city or a country, no one has seven plates and eight bowls, and there are several meat dishes, chicken and duck.
There must be three of them in the fish.
To be honest, the flavor of this roasted turkey is really average. It smells just fine and tastes not as delicious as the vacuum-packed Texas Braised Chicken. But Hong Tao is a guest and it is the first time to go back to his mother-in-law's house after getting married. Not only can't he
You have to be picky and choose
He looked like he liked it very much. Fortunately, Lao Mei didn't give in to the food, and he could eat as much as he could. This gave Hong Tao a lot of freedom, and he barely ate two more bites than everyone else to show off.
Thank you to my mother-in-law for a hard day's work.
After the Thanksgiving dinner, this festival is not over yet. Just like our Chinese Spring Festival, there are still some things to pay attention to. The Chinese Spring Festival is about staying up late, setting off firecrackers, and making dumplings. The Thanksgiving Day here is about playing games.
You can entertain yourself as a family behind closed doors, or you can participate in various game competitions organized by the community.
On Thanksgiving night, Sam's community held a traditional Thanksgiving pumpkin rolling competition. Each family in the community had to send a contestant to participate. Hong Tao was lucky enough to be named by his mother-in-law to represent Sam's family.
Participate.
The pumpkin rolling competition, as the name suggests, is to roll the pumpkin, and whoever reaches the finish line first wins. However, the tool for rolling the pumpkin is not a hand, but a spoon, which is a spoon for eating. The smaller the spoon, the better, and the more you can get.
The audience cheers. It doesn't matter who wins. The prize is the pumpkin you rolled. You can take it home whether you win or lose.
Mrs. Burgess originally prepared a small stainless steel spoon for Hong Tao, but after hearing the rules of the competition, Hong Tao immediately said that he had a smaller spoon. So in full view of everyone, he took out a small stainless steel spoon from his toiletry bag.
A small spoon came, which made everyone in Sam's family laugh. This spoon was made of bamboo, more than ten centimeters long, and the head of the spoon was no bigger than a grain of rice. Its scientific name is ear-digging spoon!
The result of the competition was naturally that Hong Tao won. Although he was not the first to push the pumpkin to the finish line 20 meters away, his spoon was the smallest among all the contestants. This is in line with the American curiosity-seeking mentality, so
Everyone agreed that the biggest pumpkin belonged to the Burgess family.
In fact, this competition is a get-together for community residents, just to let everyone get together and communicate with each other. During the competition, each family brings out their own desserts, drinks, and beer and puts them together, and everyone eats and drinks together.
Chatting together, the men talked about sports and economics, the women talked about fashion gossip, and the children talked about school girlfriends, each getting what he wanted.
At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Sam held the big pumpkin and brought the family back to the court in victory. Then Mrs. Burgess announced the next day's family activities with a wave of her hand. They got up at 5 o'clock in the morning and went shopping together in the city's shopping mall.
Regarding this decision, Hong Tao had to raise his hands to express his approval, because it is also an important activity in the holiday for the whole family to go out to buy discounted goods on the second day of Thanksgiving.
The average American family tries to buy all the things they want to buy for the whole year at one time at the end of the year. This is mainly to save money, because during Thanksgiving and Christmas, almost all stores have discounts, and the greater the discount in the store.
The more. Especially the second day of Thanksgiving, it is called Black Friday by the American department store industry. On this day, many stores open at 1 or 2 o'clock in the middle of the night. The discounts are astonishingly high, and goods with 20% off are everywhere.
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In the early morning of the next day, Sam and his family set off in two cars. Their destination was a fashion outlet in Buffalo, which translates to fashion outlets. Although Buffalo is not a big city, it is
This mall is very famous in New York State,
Because it is right next to the U.S.-Canada border, not far from Niagara Falls, not only local Americans shop here, but many tourists and Canadians across the border also come to purchase goods, because prices in the United States are lower than in Canada.
, especially during holiday discounts.
This is the first time Hong Tao has seen Americans with such a crazy side. Don’t even think about entering the parking lot. There is already a long queue of cars 500 meters away. Judging from the license plates of the cars, they are coming from Canada.
There are quite a few people there, some even come from Toronto.
Hong Tao was more accustomed to this kind of scene. After all, he often faced it in China. He asked Sam and his wife to take Katie to the mall first, while he and Eileen drove in the car and queued up, so as not to miss the opportunity to buy discounted goods.
Nor will I park my car at will and get a ticket. (To be continued...)
