One of my professors was telling our class the other day how she does not cook. When her children were growing up she said they would be disappointed to learn that she had made them a homecooked dinner. For Thanksgiving, she now buys the turkey, takes it to her sister's house and she says she gets to clean up. That part she is good at. Only once did she try to make a Thanksgiving turkey.
::Flashback::
As she had never done it she was following a recipe; though a little too closely it would appear. "Baste often," read the instructions and that is just what she did. She admitted to us that she basted her turkey every 5 minutes...
For those of you who do not spend much time in the kitchen and those of you who do but still don't get why this is hysterical, when you open your oven door you release all of the heat and doing so every 5 minutes is a pretty fantastic way to ensure that your turkey will not cook at all.
When her timer rang, she pulled out the bird and sure enough, it was not cooked...at all. To her credit (I think) she did not throw in the towel. She refused to be beaten by the one mistake so to cook her turkey, she placed it in the microwave to finish it.
And that was the first time, and thus the last time, she attempted to make a Thanksgiving turkey.
Maybe the meal you'll have isn't so bad now is it? Just a little story that I thought I would share with you before your hearty feasts tomorrow. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!
This entry was posted on Nov 23 2005 at 15:36 by admin and is filed under Food & Drink: General.
