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Why not let your fingers TRAVEL across the keyboard to a FOOD & RECIPE related website to get the advice you wish or to swap your favorite recipe?

You wouldn't ask directions to Chicago on foodtv.com, would you?

Remember this? It's coming again...

FainaAgain, thanks for bringing this up! Brings back memories of me cooking my first turkey with the bag of giblets inside .... and much rarer than one would ever eat a turkey! :-d

(rb_, do you need a pumpkin pie recipe? Sorry, just have to tease you ... :p)

Here's Martha Stewarts 101:

http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jh...id=channel1279

There are some really good turkey roasting recipes on FoodTV.com. I'm using Giada's this year (Everyday Italian). Hopefully it'll be as good as its ratings.

I just honestly cannot believe that it's that time of year again!! My DH came home with one of those monsterous turkey pans last week (glad someone is thinking about that bird, lol). I immediately checked to see if it fit in the oven (yes it did) - I was quickly reminded about this thread.

Happy preparations, everyone!

rb...:D

The best way to roast a turkey is to have my mom do it. I had Thanksgiving a couple of times, but for now it's at my parents place. I bring a pumpkin and a pecan pie, and a candied apple yam cassarole (how do you spell it). I just make sure to tell my mom that she does it so better than I do, and she does.

WWW.kraftfoods.com and www.butterball.com have easy to follow instructions. Butterball even has a short video.
Happy Thanksgiving!

I found the Martha 101 very easy and it was my first time cooking a turkey. Next, I'll try goose for Christmas.

Every year, I can't believe I have to bring out my dog-eared recipe's- and it's been many a year!! Thank goodness for Bob Appetit,and their yearly Thanksgiving issue!! If it's a year I'm hosting friends and family, it's where the recipes come from!
Not having been on Fodor's in 2004, I enjoyed reading the thread- and hope many of the posters whose monikers I recognize will still be with us in 2006.

I have a couple of questions: How many days would you thaw (in the fridge) a 22 pound bird? I was planning on sticking it in the fridge Monday morning.
And, has anyone every cooked their stuffing the day before? Chopping and putting all of that together is messy and my oven will only fit my giant bird.
Thanks

Stuffing will re-heat just fine, so you could do it the day before. (Think about how fabulous those Thanksgiving left-overs taste!)

A 22 pound should be in the fridge 4 1/2 to 5 days to thaw properly according to turkey 101.

Just make sure your thawed bird will fit into your oven. Seriously, happened to my neighbor! My advise to cut it up before roasting caused a nervous breakdown :)

What would I do if a turkey was expected from me... dine out?

Bought my 26 lb bird last night. I roast this and also a separate breast- LARGE extended family.

I believe the top of the black enamel pan I use won't stay down for this size. But with the lid down/sealing against the bottom half- you have a kind of steaming going on as well, so the timing on the entire process goes faster. I may have to add an hour because the pan won't seal with anything over about 22 lbs.

I have made extra stuffing separate from the bird/birds in cassorole dishes and put in to heat only 20 or 30 minutes before serving. But I do not put any meat, nor eggs in my stuffing and also make sure it is thoroughly heated with a microwave moisture zap at the end.

JJ5

Do you roast the bird with the lid on???

Lid on? No, just muzzled :)

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