Problem....

[conuly]

Lizziey got my mom a turkey before Thanksgiving, which has been in the freezer until today. I'm planning on cooking it after it defrosts in a day or so, but... I don't know how to cook turkey. Does anybody have any general turkey cooking advice? Any stuffing recipes? Any favorite side dishes that aren't holiday specific (well, yeah, christmas is a holiday I guess)?

HELP!

Comments

[toastedtuna.livejournal.com]

Yes. For cooking a turkey or a ham, or any kind of roast, you cannot go wrong with a $2.50 investment in one simple product: Hefty Cooking Bags.

I swear to GOD these are the ONLY ONLY ONLY way to go when cooking anything of this nature.

All you do is put the meat in the bag with a tablespoon of flour (to keep the bag from 'sploding), and put it in the oven. You don't have to baste, or anything!

If you like a little something extra with the meat, be it vegetables or whatever, those go in the bag, too.

Whenever I make a ham, I always dump a bottle of apple juice/apple cider in the bag with a bunch of ground cloves & cinnamon, then bake it in the Cookin' Bag for 2 hours----people RAVE over it. And I didn't do anything TO it, except pop it in the oven.

I'm tellin' ya. Hefty Cookin' Bag. It will the easiest turkey you EVER fix. IT even gives baking time/temp guidelines on the package.

[conuly]

This will very likely be the ONLY turkey I ever fix. I don't like turkey very much, it's just that we have it and it needs to be used. I'm really going to go out of my way to disguise the fact that it's turkey.

And that sounds like cheating. *stares*

Still, I will definitely consider it.

[toastedtuna.livejournal.com]

Of course it's cheating! LOL! But you won't have a dried out bird, and you can busy yourself with other things while it cooks because you don't have to baste it & all that nonsense.

This is the ONLY way I cook a turkey, and it's never failed me once.