by Seasonsgirl
I was thinking today I hadn’t posted about our Thanksgiving Day. This year was a little unusual as far as the food. We made no dish as usual and changed many. I figured since it was just my mom, step-father, hubby, and I then why not change it up. We did all gluten free, dairy free, and low sugar dishes (my step-father has to watch his sugar). So for the main dish my step-father deep fried us a turkey. Chase helped by being the watcher…
My step-father got the oil hot then started to lower the turkey in very slowly…
Then it was all the way into the hot oil to cook for 45mins-1hr….
The chickens even came out front to see what we were up to…
After which hubby was home from work and helped my mom and stepfather check to see if the turkey was done…
He was then able to help us get the turkey out…
Here it comes…
We put it in a disposable pan to cool and drain…
Baxter was helpful in licking the excess grease off the drive way 😉 …
After which we took it inside and put it on the platter…ta dah…
The side dishes went on the table. They included low sugar cranberry sauce, gluten-free stuffing (with many veggies like carrots, celery, onion, garlic, peppers, etc.), roasted Brussels-sprouts with butternut squash and shallots, sautéed green beans with almonds…
And for dessert blueberry pie toped with chicken cut outs…
Overall it was a great meal and since we didn’t make a lot of anything the leftovers were gone within a couple days. I hope you had a happy and blessed Thanksgiving day and are looking forward to a Christmas meal with family. 🙂
Seasonsgirl 
I love your chicken cut outs for your pie crust!
Thank you. I had seen people use hearts before and only have a couple small cooking cutters one being a chicken… so I figured chickens would make a good “turkey” on top of the pie 😉
It all sounds and looks delicious. We have never had deep fried turkey but have heard they are very yummy. Hubby nor I either care much for turkey. Love the chickens on top of the pie. Hugs
We hadn’t had the turkey that way either… but like you we aren’t huge fans of turkey so this was a god way to do it. It made you want to eat it more. Also we did a smaller turkey so it was easy to get rid of leftovers in turkey soup and stuff 😉 I thought the chicken cut outs looked like mini turkeys and fit the occasion 😉