Thanksgiving for two; turkey breast

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

We decided to go simple this year and buy a three-pound turkey breast. Anyone have any ideas on how to roast it? I want it to be juicy and flavorful.

[PapaBear]

We decided to go simple this year and buy a three-pound turkey breast. Anyone have any ideas on how to roast it? I want it to be juicy and flavorful.
Try looking for some recipes that use kosher salt to coat the breast. I recently did a whole chicken recipe with kosher salt and some other stuff I can't recall right now. It was super juicy and delicious.

[NickyL0885]

We decided to go simple this year and buy a three-pound turkey breast. Anyone have any ideas on how to roast it? I want it to be juicy and flavorful.

Deep Fry that sum bitch up!

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I love Alton Brown so I have the kosher salt.

[PapaBear]

I love Alton Brown so I have the kosher salt.
I just saw that one (I think). The one I did used about a half to one cup of the salt. It creates a shell around the bird that seals in the juices.

[StanUpshaw]

Brine that shit overnight.


I just saw that one (I think). The one I did used about a half to one cup of the salt. It creates a shell around the bird that seals in the juices.

Roast turkey skin is simply too delightful to do something silly like that.

[realmenhatelife]

I'm not the biggest brine fan, I dont like how it changes the texture of the turkey and I think it diminishes the turkey taste a little.

If you're just doing the breast I dont think you have to brine it, because the white meat is a lot less likely to dry out if you're not also cooking dark meat at the same time. Also, 3 lbs isn't going to take so long to cook.

Maybe make a compound butter with whatever herbs you like and some lemon zest and put it under the skin.


The last few thanksgivings we've been making our turkey the day before and then just eating it cold as sandwiches the day of. Cutting out the middle man.

[Chigworthy]

Larded with bacon. Go ahead and shut the thread down.

[realmenhatelife]

Larded with bacon. Go ahead and shut the thread down.

Bacon is over rated. Boom, truthbomb.

And I like bacon, but there is a time in America when we need to say "ok, enough with the fucking bacon."

[JPMNICK]

Bacon is over rated. Boom, truthbomb.

And I like bacon, but there is a time in America when we need to say "ok, enough with the fucking bacon."

I could not agree more. the phrase "everything is better with bacon" is as bad as "what happens in vegas stays in Vegas" and "Man Cave"

all three are so trite and terrible. bacon has its place, but not on everything.

[Chigworthy]

I agree that the cool hipster mystique surrounding bacon, from bacon tattoos to bacon enemas, is a full-on raging douchetastrophe, but a turkey breast larded in bacon shouldn't suffer for this.

[PapaBear]

Brine that shit overnight.




Roast turkey skin is simply too delightful to do something silly like that.
It makes the skin even better. Once you take the shell off, the skin in delicious.

[Justice4all]

I could not agree more. the phrase "everything is better with bacon" is as bad as "what happens in vegas stays in Vegas" and "Man Cave"

all three are so trite and terrible. bacon has its place, but not on everything.

Sounds like someone has never been to Vegas before.

We decided to go simple this year and buy a three-pound turkey breast. Anyone have any ideas on how to roast it? I want it to be juicy and flavorful.

Have you googled any of this info?
Why not go out to eat?

[JPMNICK]

Sounds like someone has never been to Vegas before.





i have been there, and a lot of dirt shit happened, but i dont need a marketing company to tell me not to come home and spew it all over.

i also believe what happens in cranford NJ stays in cranford NJ, i just dont print tshirts saying it.

[Misteriosa]

I agree that the cool hipster mystique surrounding bacon, from bacon tattoos to bacon enemas, is a full-on raging douchetastrophe, but a turkey breast larded in bacon shouldn't suffer for this.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=bacon&sortby=score&sortorder=desc&sorthow=num&dispstart=1&dispnum=all

[Justice4all]

i have been there, and a lot of dirt shit happened, but i dont need a marketing company to tell me not to come home and spew it all over.

i also believe what happens in cranford NJ stays in cranford NJ, i just dont print tshirts saying it.

Nick NOTHING happens in Cranford! :laugh:

Besides when have you known marketing campaigns to NOT advertise to the lowest common denominator?