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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. If your grilling or cooking a turkey out in the wild, please share your Turkey Day Photos.

 

Happy Camping and safe travels where ever you are. 🦃🦃

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Happy Thanksgiving fellow campers and travelers!  We’re home this year (although we considered joining our son and family who are camping this week at Grand Canyon NP).  I’ll be smoking two 12lb free range turkeys on the Primo ceramic this year.  We’ve been doing two turkeys for quite a while, one inside in the oven and one outside on the smoker.  The smoked turkey always wins the taste test, so we’ll just do both outside on the smoker this year!  Mike

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Happy Turkey Day "Week", Oliver owners!  

D and I will be staying home this year, too.  We'll be deep frying a 12# free range Non-GMO bird on Thursday afternoon and smoking a heavily marinated 18# brisket in the BGE on Friday.  Should have plenty of leftovers - so if y'all're in the AO; swing by!  Gobble - gobble! HA!

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Happy Thanksgiving.  We're camping with some friends for the week. Trash can turkey on the fire, weather permitting.  If not, ham on the grill. 

Have a great holiday, everyone!

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We are staying home, I am working, and we are having family ang fiends over Thanksgiving day, about 20 people or so. Cooking two 20 pound local raised turkeys. 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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We will be staying home also. We have a 20 lbs bird. I will start at 1130PM Wednesday and doing a Citrus Smoked turkey.  Happy Thanksgiving and May both your joy and stomach be full!

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Happy Thanksgiving. 
We will be Traeger hickory pellet smoking a 6# dry rubbed bacon wrapped turkey breast. https://www.traeger.com/recipes/herbed-smoke-roasted-turkey-breast

In addition we will enjoy iron skillet bacon wrapped and garlic and rosemary seasoned deer tenderloin plated at 136d, (med rare). We’ll raise a toast to a very blessed and successful hunt this year. From Field to Table. 🦃🍁🍽🦌
 

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Just off the smoker - let it rest 15 min and enjoy! 

(The skewers keep the breast upright while sitting on the grill)😊

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Happy Thanksgiving to ALL! Chris is making her usual magic in the kitchen today. We should get a fire going in the fireplace! Listening now to classical music.

We're going to take some time this long weekend to plan some upcoming camping trips (for Dec, Feb and April). All I've been doing is working on our Oliver, and more so on the truck. We need to get out again!

Mid December we will travel to some warmer parts of SW AZ. Starting with a few nights at Burro Creek Campground, we will swing through Quartzite for a night or two, on way to Yuma (I need to work in a dental visit in Los Algodones). You can dry-camp at the Quechan Casino (Indian Territory right there on the boarder). Interested in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, perhaps there is camping there, or other BLM boondocking between Yuma and Quartzite. Will hit Wickenburg on the way back, eat lunch at Cowboy Cookin' and boondock again at Vulture Mountain. Final stop at Lake Pleasant Regional Park, located in the NW Phoenix Valley. There is always day-of dry-camping available, empty your tanks and fill with decent fresh water.

We've been to some of these spots, but never in an Oliver! Now that I wrote it, I believe we have most of our first plan done!

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I'll post some photos tomorrow. 

Our Minnesota camping and sailing  friends got a late start, so pot roast for Thanksgiving.  Easier to hold, for late arrival. 

Trash can turkey tomorrow.  

Campfire is burning. It's a beautiful day here in wnc.

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.Minnesota friends have arrived! Florida friends here. It's a happy day.

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@SeaDawg what happened to the back half of your Ollie?

Yeah, those lil' Ollies are so cute! Still daylight out west, near sunset. On my first drink, but don't worry, I'll catch up to y'all soon. 🤣 No camping here today, just a simple oven-roasted holiday bird. Our son Adam just came upstairs to mash potatoes, the old-fashioned way, with homemade gravy, yum! 

Love the cartoon supplied by @mountainoliver - thank you! 
To all, have fun with your family & friends and Happy Thanksgiving!

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1 hour ago, jd1923 said:

@SeaDawg what happened to the back half of your Ollie?

It's all good. We're just the littler cousin.

That's our Minnesota friends' trailer hull 30 something.. We are father down the hill. 

Littler can be good. It's all about what you want, and need. We're not big people,  so the Elite has been good for us. 

Ps, that turkey looks great!

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Trashcan turkey is at 156. Another 15 minutes or so. 

Everything else is done. Stuffing, squash, mashed potatoes

 

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It was totally awesome, and a Thanksgiving (friday) to remember. 

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The saga continues. Steak and veggies kabobs on the fire. Yes, I get some crispy edgrs,,but they tast so good.

Missing our Minnesota  ollie/sailing friends who left after lunch today. (Hull 30 something,  looks like new.)

Remaining boys are out by the campfire.  It's all good.

 

 

 

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We left NH in mid-October and headed southwest. On Thanksgiving Day we were at Live Oak Ridge Park (COE) in Belton, TX.  With so little space to store leftovers we decided to cook a turkey breast on the grill and have mashed potatoes and broccoli salad as sides. I made an apple pie in the microwave/convection and it was sure better than my "harder than stabilizer brick" brownies. I might be getting the hang of this thing!  The turkey breast was delicious!   We've been from NH to TX in the last 5 weeks and not yet seen another Ollie, but we keep looking! Paula

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12 hours ago, GraniteStaters said:

We've been from NH to TX in the last 5 weeks and not yet seen another Ollie, but we keep looking! Paula

Here's what they look like - in case you are having trouble remembering. 😁

Great looking pie!

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