Turkeys

Turkey... you know, that thing that all new brides stress about cooking for the first time!!! Well... I am not sure I had to cook one for the first couple of years, but you know, it's something that seems to stress a lot of women out. Most of us want to make a moist, yummy turkey. The kind that melts in your mouth! I have to say that there are a lot of things I have not mastered, even now, 23 years + later, but turkeys, yes turkeys are something that I can say that I mastered. I can make the perfect turkey. 3 or 4 years ago a good friend of mine, who is NOT a young bride, but a mom of many and a grandmother to even more asked me how to make the perfect turkey. I shared my secret and that year she borrowed one of my roasters. The next year, it was such a hit that her family insisted on doing it again, and she bought a roaster of her own. My secret is that I cook it on low heat, all night long... season the bird, and season the couple of cups of water that said bird is bathing in all night long! The whole house wakes up in the night smelling the yummy bird, and it leaves us with mouth watering and excitedly waiting for dinner time!

Tomorrow we are having family pictures taken after church and we are going to have a houseful, and some spares. So we pulled out two of the turkeys that need to be eaten because, well, Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I will stock up and fill my freezers yet again with turkeys when they go on sale at the store. You see, when you buy $20 worth of groceries you get a turkey for just a few dollars... and since we can go through that much milk ever couple/few days, no since wasting the deal, so we buy the turkey too! But we had some left, so I figured I would make two of them up and hopefully we will have left overs and I can make a couple of extra meals.... like turkey pot pie, or turkey enchiladas, or if we are lucky... BOTH!

So, what's the problem??? Well... I found out AFTER I worked so hard to make that wonderful, melt-in-your-mouth, moist turkey that my sweet husband likes it DRY! Or better yet, he just prefers to not have it if he can help it! I don't know, something about childhood memories and a pet turkey or some other silly nonsense!!! :) Poor guy... because while I like to please my man, it just isn't going to happen here. I am still going to make my yummy turkey and he will continue to complain.... all while eating the bird!!! Gotta love it!