Daily Blog #578: Merry Christmas 12/25/18

Hello Reader,
        At every major holiday I post a recipe on my wife's advice. She said you would at some point want to read something not technical. So since it's Christmas I thought I would share one of the recipes I've been making for my family and friends.

For a number of years I made Nigella Lawson's Aromatic ham:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/aromatic-spiced-ham-recipe-2015116

If you enjoy ham I do recommend it as its fun to make, I like things that involve alot of steps when cooking, and the final product is quite the table centerpiece. These past few years I've been making the prime rib I posted back in 2013 which you can read here:
https://www.hecfblog.com/2013/12/daily-blog-185-merry-christmas.html

In either case, no matter what religion you follow or not I wish a happy holiday season to you and yours as we prepare to enter what may be a very uncertain new year.

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Daily Blog #546: Thanksgiving post 2018

Hello Reader,
         When I did the previous year of blogging my wife suggested I post recipes which I did on Holidays. This year I did a sous vide turkey following the recipe in this video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03Ug4biX-I

I did one thing different though, I cooked the turkey breasts to 145 rather than 130 and it made a huge difference. Last year I cooked it to 130 as suggested and the meat while safe to eat was pink and made everyone worried, finding itself in the broiler to bring it to temp.

145 was the perfect temp and led to a very good product that I then broiled the skin to give it the roasted appearance people expect.

Tomorrow back to the normal schedule!

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