That’s quite a haul for the holidays. What are making with so much rum? I usually get a bunch of whisky and make all sorts of shit. I might try making a hot toddy this year. Also, no one thinks you’re cool with your exposed brick.
The rum is just the box... kind of. Inside are 6 bottles of a specialty release of FourSquare, 3 bottles going to a friend in BC who can't buy it there. It's just straight up drinking rum for the next few months, nothing special. The other case is a case of champagne, because you need a case of champagne handy over the holidays. The other 2 cases are Persecco, which is hard to come by these days, so I stocked up for a few months. And the exposed brick is from that style back in the early 70's, when the house was made... no need to be intimidated by it.
The biggest problem with stuffing is that you are adding a dense, wet mass to the middle of a bird that can quite easily end up like this: Though to be honest, stuffing is a moot point here in Europe. These communist ovens we have can barely fit a full turkey, so spatchcocking is the way to go to get it to fit and it cooks way faster, which is better as the oven needs to be used for other stuff too since space is at a premium. Pro tip for spatchcocking: heavy garden shears are ideal for cutting the backbone. Get a pair just for that, and don’t use them in the garden. I just let the dressing brown under the turkey which is placed right on the rack and all the juices drip on it, so you get the same effect more or less as having it in the bird. Anyway, we couldn’t get off work yesterday so we are taking today off and doing the meal, which means that all my day after post-turkey farts (which are so noxious they are the origin of today being called black friday) will be crop dusted around the Costco. Good times.
Some guys were talking about stuffin' waffles. That sounded amazing. I am sure the muffins were delicious, screw other people.
That took me way too long to process... I was trying to figure out "how do you split a fucking waffle so that you can stuff it?" Then I got it... "ahhh!! you put the stuffing in a waffle iron!" Genius.
Apparently "waffling" everything is a trend now. Waffled potato shreds are amazing, it's like the best hash brown you've ever had.
I waffled some instant mashed potatoes. As long as you let them get on the crispy side of done, they're pretty good.