Thanksgiving - Fresh Fork Market

Parker’s Five Steps for a Successful Thanksgiving

Step 1: Write your menu Select all your recipes that you will be cooking, as well as those that guests might be brining. There are no rules for what to make at Thanksgiving, so time to get creative! If someone else is bringing a dish, are they brining it fully cooked? If they’re cooking at…

Heritage Thanksgiving Turkeys

Thanksgiving — our favorite holiday of the year!– is still a few weeks away, but for our farmers,Thanksgiving is really the culmination of a year’s worth of planning and hard work, especially when breeding and raising heritage turkeys. Heritage turkeys are turkeys that can naturally reproduce their same offspring. Most commercial poultry breeds are cross-breeds…

Brining a Turkey

Any brine time is better than no brine time– even just a few hours will reduce cooking time, impart moisture and result in more evenly-cooked bird. Brining, like marinating, is a technique of soaking a piece of meat in liquid prior to cooking. Marinating is done to infuse flavor and moisture. Brining can also add…

Guide to Roasting a Turkey

First, before you even get to the roasting, you should definitely brine your turkey. Click here for instructions on brining your turkey. 1. Start the oven hot: preheat to 450 degrees. Remove one rack and place the remaining rack near the bottom. The turkey should be about centered in the oven for even air flow.…