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Happy Thanksgiving!
Watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade makes me miss seeing New York. I need to visit during the Christmas season next time.
Also this year I noticed most of the Black Friday deals that Best Buy and the like are running are really no cheaper than what you can buy it for on Amazon.com all the time. Well except for the super cheap DVD's and CD's. But a lot of the prices for TV's and other electronic goodies aren't worth the hassle of getting down there and fighting the lines.
Finally how to make a great tasting turkey:
- Get the turkey a few days (4 or 5) ahead of time to thaw in the fridge
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use an oven thermometer to make sure the oven is calibrated correctly.
- Mince up about quarter cup of garlic cloves, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme together. Fresh is best!
- Melt a cup of butter in the microwave
- Mix the butter and herbs together, and add some salt and pepper
- Unwrap the turkey and take out the guts.
- Rub the butter compound all over the turkey, particularly the breast underneath the skin. This is the really messy (and fun!) part.
- Stuff with a few orange slices, half an apple, whole garlic cloves, and the rest of the herbs
- Cook about 3 and a half hours for a 12 pound bird, covering loosely with foil at about the 2.5 hour mark.
- Take it out when the thigh meat hits 165 degrees. Use a meat thermometer. If you don't own one, buy one. You should never cook meat without one, done-ness is decided by temperature, not by time. You can even buy ones that have a timer attached so it beeps at you when it hits a pre-set temperature.
- Let sit for 30 minutes, carve, and enjoy!
I use this method every year to cook my family's turkey, and originally got it out of an Alligator news article. There are fancier ways of doing the cooking, but this one works great for me and everyone that's tasted my turkey raves about it.
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