How do you fix yours Nacho?  I am always interesting in new ways of baking, etc.  I just do mine the ole traditional way each year.  Because of the size of our families , etlatives, etc.. that always come to our house on Thanksgiving I normally fix a large a turkey as I can find then fix a smaller one and than bake a trukey breast  and then a spiral ham as well.  This normally feeds everyone. Then have lots of the good stuff to go with it.  I'm so hungry now just thinking about all this and smelling my beef stew on the stove too right now. I still have to fix my cornbread yet today.

i been cooking turkey since i made thanksgiving when i was 13. gotta have turkey for thanksgiving. We dont eat dark meat but  that and the carcass go in the pot for stock. The biggest problem is having all the traditional items but there are now only two of us LOL we have a lot of leftovers LOL

my sister insisted on brining the turkey last year.We did it.

 

Result- absolutely no difference other than time wasted brining it LOL

Dee,

 

I used to roast my turkey's in a paper grocery bag. I'd staple the ends shut and baste it every hour. It worked beautifully.....

 

Then one beautiful Christmas morning someone in my family got me a turkey roasting pan, and that was the end of the paper bags. 

 

I use Kosher salt, pepper, and lots and lots of butter to season the skin. And I've always made my own stuffing. Key ingredient for a great stuffing: Marjoram. 

 

Nacho!

i use poultry seasoning and sage in mine, but critical is the liquid from boiling the neck, livers, heart, you know the icky parts inside. boil that for a few hours and use that liquid in the stuffing. along with the usual butter celery onion bread

How about a Ham?

 

 

My sister in law was a home economics teacher for thirty years. She had a younger friend who was going to fix a ham for a family holiday. She didn't know how to bake a ham so she asked my sister in law for advice. Since it was a canned ham, sister in law told her to just put it in the oven and bake it till it was cooked through. The lady put the ham in the oven and went to a little league event and returned home to find the oven door blown off the oven.

 

Evidently, sister in law should have been more explicit in her cooking instructions.........the lady didn't take the ham out of the can.

Huh.... That's a good question, Annie.....

 

I've never tried a ham this way. I'm not sure how it would come out..... Worth a try though!

 

Nacho!