How to cook a turkey

Cook a turkey in your oven.

1. Thaw your turkey
1. Refrigerator Thawing (Safest)
1. 24 hours of thawing for every 4–5 pounds of turkey.
2. A large turkey can take 3–6 days to fully thaw.
2. Cold Water Thawing
1. Submerge the Turkey in cold water.  Change the water every 30 minutes.
2. Allow 30 minutes per pound, then cook immediately once thawed.
2. Preheat oven to 325°F. 
3. Remove the turkey from packaging.  Take out any contents inside it that might be there such as the neck, giblets, seasoning packet
4. Pat the turkey completely dry with towels.
5. Put Turkey in a roasting pan
6. Add 1 cup of chicken broth to the bottom and place the turkey on the oven rack
7. Brush melted butter evenly over the turkey (including under the skin) 
8. Loosely tent the turkey with aluminum foil (if the lid doesn’t fit) about 15–20 minutes per pound.
9. Midway through cooking, remove the foil to allow the skin to brown.
10. Using a meat thermometer, Turkey is done at 165°F in the breast and 175–180°F in the thigh.
11. Let the turkey rest 20–40 minutes before carving to lock in juices. Slice, serve, and enjoy.

How to cook a ham

1. Remove any packaging and trim off skin/fat.

Unwrap the ham and discard any plastic, netting, or paper.
Use a knife to trim off any tough outer skin or thick layers of fat, leaving about a 1/4 inch layer of fat.

2. Score in a diamond pattern.

Use a sharp knife to cut diagonal intersecting lines across the surface fat, about 1/4 inch deep. This allows the fat to render and the glaze to seep into the meat.

3. Place ham cut-side down on a rack in a roasting pan.

Position the ham with the cut face (the meatiest side) down on a roasting rack inside a foil-lined pan. Add 1/2 inch of water to the bottom of the pan to prevent drippings from burning.

4. Bake according to size, until warmed through.

For a 6-8 lb ham, bake at 325°F for about 18-20 minutes per lb.
For a 10-14 lb ham, bake for about 15 minutes per lb.
Test for doneness by inserting a meat thermometer into the thickest part – 140°F is the desired.

5. Glaze ham and broil to caramelize.

Apply your glaze of during the last 30 minutes of baking.
For a caramelized finish, switch the oven to broil for 3-5 minutes once glazed.

6. Let rest before slicing and serving.

Once the ham reaches the target internal temperature, remove it from the oven, loosely tent with foil, and allow to rest for 15-20 minutes (retain moisture)

Slice and serve!

Sequence to connect to iSCSI Volume from Ubuntu 20.x Server

Connect to iSCSI Volume from Ubuntu 20.04.  Maybe this will help.

Step 1. Install open-iscsi

sudo apt update
sudo apt install open-iscsi

Step 2. Configure initiatorname.conf

We need to edit the initiatorname.conf file located in /etc/iscsi directory.

sudo nano /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.conf

Now enter the initiator name of the iSCSI target into this file. 

In my example, i'm creating a SCSI drive on an Iomega ix4-200d device

For example, in my case, it would be:

InitiatorName=iqn.1992-04.com.emc:storage.ix4-200d-TILRBJ.media

Now save and close the file.

Step 3. Configure iscsid.conf

Now we need to edit the default configuration file

sudo nano /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf

In this config file, we need to edit some sections to match our iSCSI target server. If your iSCSI target discovery authentication mode set to None, you can leave this config untouched. It will work out of the box. If your iSCSI target server use CHAP, then you need to edit the following

Find and uncomment the following line

node.session.auth.authmethod = CHAP
node.session.auth.username = username
node.session.auth.password = password

Enter the CHAP credentials, username, and password you created on the iSCSI target server. Close and save the file. Now restart the service

sudo systemctl restart iscsid open-iscsi

Step 3. Connect to the iSCSI Target

Discover the iSCSI Target

First, we will need to discover the iSCSI target. On the Terminal, use this command to discover the target

Change the IP address with your actual iSCSI Target server IP.

sudo iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.100.100

Note down the output as we will need to use it for the next step below. This is important if we have multiple targets in the server like above.

Connect to the iSCSI Target Volume

Now we can login to the target with this command.

sudo iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:iscsi01 --portal 192.168.100.100 --login

Output:

dhani@dhani-Ubuntu:~$ sudo iscsiadm --mode node --targetname iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:iscsi01 --portal 192.168.100.100 --login
Logging in to iface: default, target: iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:iscsi01, portal: 192.168.100.100,3260
Login to [iface: default, target: iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:iscsi01, portal: 192.168.100.100,3260] successful.

The command above will only connect to the iscsi01 target only. If you have multiple targets on the server, and you want to login into them all, you can use this command

sudo iscsiadm -m node -l

To log out from all the targets, use this

sudo iscsiadm -m node -u

Done.

Now let’s check our block disk using fdisk command

sudo fdisk -l

As you can see my iSCSI disk is recognized as /dev/sdb.

Step 4. Format the iSCSI Disk

So now we’ve connected to the iSCSI disk. We can then format or create a partition on the iSCSI Disk, just like a local disk. In the following example, I will create a new partition and format the disk to ext4 file system.

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Was having problems creating partitions larger that 2TB so used sudo gdisk /dev/sdb

instead and that allowed me to create larger parititons.

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sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

Now type n to create a new partition.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p):

Type p to create primary partition and then type 1 to create one partition. You can change this to two for example, if you want to create two partitions.

Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (256-13107203, default 256):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (256-13107203, default 13107203):

Created a new partition 1 of type ‘Linux’ and of size 50 GiB.

Type w to write the change. Next, let’s check using fdisk

sudo fdisk -l

As you can see, now I have a new partition called /dev/sdb1.

Format the partition to ext4

Next, I will format this partition to ext4 file system.

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

dhani@dhani-Ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 13106948 4k blocks and 3276800 inodes
Filesystem UUID: aa38ff4c-9d84-49c2-a1d9-9c368319f95f
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (65536 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Mount the partition

sudo mkdir /mnt/iscsi_disk
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/iscsi-disk