Let's talk Turkey

[threadwalker]

I cooked a turkey last night. My first turkey ever. And all by myself.

It came out awesome. I get home from work at 7pm, so it was in the oven at 8pm. I wasn't planning on actually having any, but I surrendered to the smell and the golden skin when it came out of the oven. It was scrummy!

On a cooking-track record note, Yay me! I didn't burn it. Woot!

Comments

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

You started cooking a turkey at 8:00 PM at night?! Dude - don't those take like all day?

But congrats! I would never attempt something like that!

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

If you want, I can show you how to do the turkey in the BBQ, mine was the best ever this year. I try to do Turkey several times a year.

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

YAY!!! Guess you're a big girl now!

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

It was a 9lb turkey - rather like an overlarge chicken. I figured if I was going to screw up, I wanted to screw up on a small scale.

30 min prep. 2-1/2 to 3 hrs in oven. (wouldn't have taken so long to prep, but I've become a handwashing freak around raw meat ever since I got into aseptic stuff at work. Microbes give me the oogies.)

*sniffle* am I really a big girl now? I have finally "arrived" ... by reading my "gourmet cooking for idiots" and following it step by step. who would have thought the path was so straight! LOL

[broider-barones.livejournal.com]

Cooking a turkey is a right of passage. Congrats on achieving a major step. In fact smaller turkeys are harder to keep moist so extra pats on the back are due you. So did you take a turkey sandwich for lunch today?

Go you!

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

A few years back my sister called on the phone to say she wanted to be in charge of cooking the Christmas turkey at Mom's. She thought it was high time she should learn how. I told her it was just like roasting a chicken.

After a few moments of silence I said into the phone "You've never roasted a chicken?"
Her response was: "No, but I'm a Southern woman. I can fry ANYTHING!"