twenty-five | day 16 – turkey, turkeeyyy

eggnog and turkey

festive christmas company

what a nice sunday

all of this will go together – except for the nog...that's for me =)

Every year after thanksgiving, Costco comes out with their holiday cookbook (with new recipes – I imagine costco has a room full of grandmas cranking out recipes for this cookbook). One of my favorite holiday recipes was shamelessly pilfered from one of these cookbooks about 2-3 years ago. Today, I'm pulling out the recipe for turkey breast with cranberry risotto stuffing one more time for a potluck. The recipe is fairly simple, and takes about 45 min. of prep-time and 1 hour in the oven. Of course, any recipe from costco seems easy, but you inevitably end up elbow deep in turkey remnants wondering if the rice stuffing will actually stay in the bird remains. Good thing the pictures are convincing enough that you trust it will come out looking at least 75% like the one in the book. You just have to be ok with that concept.

I guess I might as well describe this turkey a bit. It's a turkey breast from nugget (apparently if you ask for turkey breast, they'll just bust open a turkey and carve out the piece you want) and you just have to carve out a little pocket for the stuffing (much harder than costco recipe grandma makes it seem). The risotto is made with chicken stock and stuff into the turkey (laid to rest in a pyrex surrounded by turkey stock – might as well be with other turkey stuff right?).

This thing comes out of the oven with the ability of feeding a basketball team (or 20 potluckers). Of course, it takes another 30 minutes just to make it look like the picture in the book. Yea...I'm a little too lazy for presentation. We'll just say this is good enough.