[carlo3b]

Thank you Jim, and all who give of themselves to bring us FreeRepublic, to you and yours, the Happiest Thanksgiving of all. To each and every Freeper far and wide Welcome Home for the Holiday... Bless you all.

[mlmr]

The turkey is roasting and I want to wish all the die-hards a Happy Thanksgiving!!

[umgud]

And, a Happy Thanksgiving to you too.......

[Rocko]

And to you, too.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We are so blessed to be Americans and free. Despite (and because of) our differences, this is the greatest country in the world. God Bless and protect our country.

[fortress]

Thank you (Chef)Carlo3b,

Have a blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours. And keep those pings coming, I am honored to be on your list
Best Wishes from beautiful sunny Oregon.

[Grampa Dave]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I thought this would be a great place to share a recipe on how to cook your turkey for those not experienced in cooking turkeys and maybe kitchen deficit in nature.

My wife got this recipe from one of her friends who is truly kitchen deficit. Her family won't let her make toast with an electronic toaster"

Recipe for those who don't know when your turkey is done:

Take your Free Range non frozen turkey and remove the giblets and slice them and boil in a pot with onions, sage spices, kosher salt and ground pepper and two quarts of water.

Wash your turkey inside and out to make sure it is clean.

Hand rub the skin and interior with olive oil to ensure a good coat. Then season the skin and interior with kosher salt, ground pepper and sage.

Remove the pot with the giblets from the stove and drain the water. Leave the giblets and onions in the pot.

Melt one stick of butter and add stuffing. Packaged stuffing like Pepperidge Farms works well. This one pot method of preparing your stuffing saves on pots needing to be cleaned.

Stir in the stuffing and butter in the giblets/onions in the pot.

Start preheating your oven at 375.

Now for the secret ingredient: Add two cups of Orville's Rainbow popcorn kernels and stir into the stuffing and giblet mix.

Next stuff your bird with this stuffing/popcorn kernel mix.

Stuff aluminum foil into the cavity hole to ensure that the stuffing mix is well covered by the foil. Your goal is to make the aluminum foil and air tight cover.

Stick your bird in the oven breast end first with its tail pointing towards the oven door.

Now go party, drink wine or what ever.

Don't worry about checking on the turkey to see if it is done. You will know when it is done.

When you hear an explosion as the turkey's butt gets thrown through the oven door with the exploding popcorn, your turkey is done. If done right your husband will not have to worry about carving the turkey, it should be in perfect pieces and parts.

The overly health conscious may want to cover the floor around the oven with aluminum foil after placing your turkey in the oven, incase some of the bird besides its butt gets out of the oven.

[Roscoe]

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

[Mama_Bear]

I'm sorry, I completely missed your day in the spotlight yesterday, but I skimmed over the thread this morning. Thanks for your recipes and wit. Tomorrow, when I have more time, I am going to go back and read the thread in detail.

A Happy Thanksgiving to you and belated congratulations on being our Featured FReeper yesterday. :-)