I am still recovering from the thanksgiving and the long weekend hangover. As I mentioned, the turkey turned out awesome. Did not follow your recipe verbatim, made my own improvisations, but used the general guideline that you provided.

-Brined the turkey overnight with pepper corns, bayleaf, cinnamon and cloves. Curry leaves could be added but I thought it might be a conflicting flavor with bayleaf. -Used Olive oil instead of butter. -I had a 14lb bird. did 400F for the first hour and 350F for the next 3 hours. I figured my oven was a little on the larger side for a small bird. -Did use up 3/4 bottle of chardonnay, which helped an awesome gravy. Spiced up the gravy with crushed pepper corns, mint leaves and additional garlic. - Used the Carrots and celery on which the turkey rested as a side dish. I had most of it as nobody really cared much for it. - Used lime, mint, curry leaves in the pouch inside which really added to the flavor of the meat. - Massaged the rub ( marinade) into the meat for a good 30 minutes. - Used a aluminum foil to cover the breast while cooking, but the cheese cloth is a better idea. - for the final glaze ( applied 15 minutes before taking out of oven), I used brown sugar, chilli powder, lime juice and a little salt. Gave it a nice light golden hue.

This is my first venture at cooking the turkey ever. My wife made Cranberry chutney, Stuffing, Green beans casserole, and Sweet potato pie. We invited a few friends to share this “experiment” and they were pleasantly surprised. Ofcourse, we liquored them up thoroughly before the meal…..naah,just kidding!!!. I enjoyed my annual indulgence in high end Scotch, though. My 4 year old “minicaca” dropped the digital camera and broke it a few days back, I had to use the good ole’ “phillum” camera to take the pictures, so please gimme a few days before I can post the pictures on Flickr. Did take some “still” photos on our Sony “miniDVDcam”, but the pictures are not the best quality. I need to invest in a good digital camera….

Thanks for the inspiration.

Cliff.

Note her date of birth. Unbelievable, isn’t it — she really is that hot in real life.

What about the Colbert Report?

Not to anywhere near the same extent, as far as I know. Jon Stewart’s the big mang on campus around here.

PS — I just supplied lashings and lashings of Nigella, and you picked up on my remark about The Daily Show instead ?! Not so much with the “Debauchery” in reality, eh — all talk and no patloons.

kidding

What about the Colbert Report?

Yeah, she’s pretty famous for it here in the UK. Her presenting style is all dark flashing eyes, posh English voiceover, closeups of her licking her fingers etc etc.

Amitabh,

Jai, do Dave and Jay have a big audience in the UK? How about Conan?

Letterman was huge in the UK during the 90s when his show was broadcast on one of the main terrestrial British television channels. It’s now on a more obscure satellite/cable channel so I guess the viewership isn’t as large, but he’s generally pretty well-known. Jay Leno and Conan’s shows are both broadcast on the CNBC channel, so are familiar to those with access to satellite TV. However, these days, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show is extremely popular in Britain.

Nigella-wise, here’s her first (notorious) appearance on the Letterman show, when ol’ Dave became more than a little flustered by her. It’s really funny. Some more examples of her TV appearances are on the right-hand-side of the screen.

South Asians will switch the v and w in their pronounciation.

Instead of “whatever” a desi with an accent will say “vatewer”.

I don’t know mayne, it’s just how we do.

Sounds Unamerican delicious.

Moo. @=)