The annual turkey post, or, How To Bake Big Bird.

[seanan_mcguire]

Back by popular demand, here is my family's turkey recipe. I share because a) I care, and b) apparently, some people have experienced dryness in their breast meat when cooking their turkeys in another fashion, whereas my mother once set a turkey on fire and still had moist breast meat. Despite the, y'know, flames. Any recipe that can survive

Comments

[shaharazad]

That was fun to read and totally comprehensible for someone with my lack of cooking skilz! Thanks! We're not cooking the bird this year, but I may refer back to this at some point.

And filoviruslicious is my new favorite word!

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay! See, that's why I post the recipe: because cooking a turkey is actually really easy, and doesn't require you to know how to cook. Have a great Thanksgiving!

[dormouse_in_tea]

I do not know how to cook at all, and ever since you first posted this recipe, I've been hankering to cook a turkey.

But in my family, Father Cooks The Turkey.

(poorly)

I may have to commit Random Acts of Turkey at some point.

It's a secret, but...

[jenk]

...you can cook turkey on days that aren't Thanksgiving.

Really.

[sheistheweather]

Good gods, that sounds delicious! Yum!

[seanan_mcguire]

I am a Turkey Fan.

[sheistheweather]

*imagining a fan made of turkey*

[keristor]

Turkeys do spread their tails in a sort of fan, that's what I imagined. At least, some turkeys do (I don't know if it's a gender-specific thing, or a courtship ritual).

[vixyish]

Did I ever tell you my mother's recipe for turkey?

I have a recipe card. It has the recipe for Gramma's cornbread stuffing, and then it says:

1. Buy Reynolds Cook Bags.

2. Follow directions on bag.

...which still makes me giggle, as it's basically "throw in some celery and flour and stick the bird in." But the few times I cooked a turkey myself, back before my vegetarian days, they always came out fine.

...or maybe it was just luck. :)

[jacylrin]

My mother moved to the bag method many years ago, and it works quite well. We even convinced my mother-in-law to convert to the bag method, and it has saved us from dessicated white meat ever since.

[seanan_mcguire]

...that sort of rules.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay turkey invite!

[lapintada]

"If your bird is over twenty-five pounds, I am coming to your place for dinner."

Well then come on over!!! Open house!

[seanan_mcguire]

HOORAY!