Turkey!

Brine the Turkey - best way to start then ensure all is washed and dyed before a salt and pepper rub.

Add butter inside the skin and drizzled with olive oil.

Cook as per the instructions.

Make sure you let thee bird sit after you bring out - for longer than you think you should - this way the bird soaks up the juices and stays moister.

Bon Appetite

Thanksgiving - What's the Sense

The sense of Thanksgiving is to stretch oneself - not your stomach from too much turkey - well that too! But look to stretch your thoughts as to why we really are and should be thank full. I've heard so many stories of family drama - well we all should be so lucky. It is a responsibility an privilege to be included and to spend time with one another - given that attitude - all seems to work out well.

One great story was the head chef at the Salvation Army in Mobile AL - he was famous for taking the folks to task and trying to get them on the road home and back to a "normal" life. This man was homeless and on the street fro several years before someone helped him to get back on his feet. He conveyed that he knew what it felt to go a week without eating - what it felt like to belong nowhere - these are the stories that should give us pause - make us want to more for others, and ourselves. For that is the true first task - be thankful for you and who you are - once you are there you can extend that feeling to others. Good for the chef - good for all of us that serve in the soup kitchen - good for all of us who really get the meaning of the day -