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Originally Posted by Newfun4me  This reminds me of the first time I made a turkey. I was probably 19 and my parents had gone to visit my grandparents (I couldn't go because of work), so I decided to have Thanksgiving at my house for my friends. Since I was somewhat frugal, I got the biggest turkey I could find. When I opened the package, it was still a little frozen, extremely big and SO slippery! I read the directions and realized pretty quickly that you had to remove stuff from inside of it. At 19, no way was I sticking my hand in there to get the stuff.... So, I'm calling my mom at 3:00 in the morning (west coast time and I was on central) asking how I'm supposed to get the giblets and stuff out of the turkey (I used tongs). Then, it's still kind of frozen - what am I supposed to do? Where is a pan big enough for this turkey???? Holy cow - how long does this have to cook????? I probably called her 6-7 times at my grandparents' house before 5:00 their time. They were all good sports, but she still doesn't let me forget it.  |
LOL I remember my first turkey, newly married and having his family over for dinner. Maybe 20 of us total?? I cooked the turkey, all the sides and stuff....even got it all on the table on time. Everyone told me how gorgeous the turkey looked, just like you'd see in a picture. So x-dh goes to cut it and the BAG of gizzards came rolling out......
right in front of everyone! I was moritifed! I heard about that until I divorced him.
Years ago my mom made pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving, and she couldn't figure out why they were such an odd color. She called me and asked me all sorts of questions (now mind you she has made pies forever) so I ran down the list of ingredients....till I got to the evaporated milk. She gasped.....she completely forgot to add it. No one ate the odd green pumpkin pies, but to this day we still kid her about it.
