Early Bird!

Nate insisted on taking my picture with the Bird since I was the head cook in the whole operation. Though I did have good assistants who helped through out the whole process. Aidan was so curious about this Turkey and just sat at the counter waiting for a taste and taking in all the action of cooking it.

This is just a better view of the Turkey. We were proud because this was the first whole Turkey we've cooked and it all turned out great, no major gliches or melt downs! Yeah!

We decided to do an Early Thanksgiving Dinner with just our little family on Friday. Since we had a frozen Turkey from last year that we hadn't used yet and I had to make a ton of stuffing for a few people, we decided to just go all out on it. We roasted the Turkey(stuffed with herbs & lemons and basted with garlic-herb butter), then made stuffing, mashed potatoes & turkey gravy, and green beans. It was so yummy! Nate dared say it was the best Turkey he's ever had. Thanks hon, for being so nice! It was pretty easy once we got the bird ready to go. We used a recipe from Sandra Lee's Thankgiving episode of Semi-home Made. If your scared to try it because of the herbs and garlic, may we assure you it's not a extremely strong flavor, it just makes it aromatic and lightly seasons the whole Turkey. We also soaked the Turkey overnight in a salt, sugar and water brine. We think this kept the Turkey moist throughout cooking it. Anyway it's something to try...we figured it would give us a few days of yummy Turkey sandwiches and so far, so good! We're looking forward to seeing all our Families over Thanksgiving!