I did it.
I successfully tackled a turkey (it’s easy if you pin them early on) and made a Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey was cooked throughout and was nice and juicy. It was 8lbs, which was the smallest one I could get. However, that is still too big for one person. So I invited Michael and his fiance Jenn over. This marks the first time I’ve thrown a dinner party cooked entirely by myself.
I would like to thank my mother for providing long distance telephone advice. She pretty much blew the recipe in “Cooking for Dummies” away. Forget all the flipping of the bird. Just baste the hell out of it. My mother is from the “You can’t have too much butter” school of cooking.
I still have half a turkey left, so I’ll have easy cooking (albeit repetitive) for the rest of the week.