I am blogging a day early this week, so that I am still immersed in Thanksgiving cheer, and I'm reminiscing over when I made my first turkey as a young bride. It wasn’t something that we kids made with our mom, so I may well have called her for some advice. If I did, there was one thing I had no idea I should have asked her about. It is possible someone out there reading this is already laughing because they did the same thing. My mother-in-law and my husband’s (ex) mother-in-law both laughed when I told them about it and said they had also done it the first time they cooked a turkey.
I had purchased the turkey, thawed it, rinsed it off, and properly placed it in the roaster. A couple hours later, the house was smelling good enough to eat. The belly was grumbling, the potatoes were being mashed, etc., etc… It was time to take the turkey out of the oven. We pulled it out, poured the juices into the gravy pan, made the gravy, and started carving the turkey…
Have you figured it out yet? As we were cleaning off the bones, I suddenly see something that I hadn’t seen before. A piece of paper or wrapper or something sticking out of the bird’s cavity…
Yup, I had no idea – young as I was in the days before googling every step of everything we do – that some of the innards were stored inside the turkey to eat or make stuffing with (I clearly did not attempt stuffing that year). I was pulling it out and laughing at myself as I pulled. Why not laugh, lol? If we can’t laugh at our unintended blunders, we may as well give up! Besides, the turkey still tasted great!
I hope there are only good or funny surprises for you this Thanksgiving and that your heart is full of gratitude! A grateful heart is a happy, loving heart.
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