Tonight is Thursday. We all know that Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day. Thursday is Turkey Day....or it least it should have been Turkey day in our household.
As we noted in a previous post, Dad was supposed to cook at Turkey last weekend, however, due to technical difficulties it was not thawed in time. So mom and dad decided to cook it this week so they would have leftover for the weekend. Well we should say mom decided to cook it.
Dad should have known from the beginning it would not be good when mom called him at work and asked to start the turkey. He agreed and told her what to set the oven at and how to cook it. Take it out of the fridge, remove the giblets and neck and put it in the oven at 350 degrees. Mom said she found the neck but not the giblets. Dad then told her to put her hand in the turkey. She refused. He told her to check the other end of the turkey and luckily she found the giblets. This was at 3:00 pm. By the way, the turkey was only 10 lbs.
Dad got home at 6:30 to the lovely smell of turkey cooking in the oven. Wait a minute...turkey still cooking in the oven?? 3 1/2 hours later? Dad immediately checked on it and found it was covered and any juice from the turkey had dried into a burnt black mess. Mom still had it cooking away, not a single drop of liquid in the pan. She decided "checking" on the turkey wasn't needed.
Attached are some pictures of the turkey. Please do not laugh since mom did try very hard. We did eat the turkey and it was pretty tasty....a little dry, but very tasty. Very dry but very tasty. This is why they invented gravy.
ps. Mom also tried making coffee using the automatic coffee maker yesterday. Dad was so excited last night that mom got the coffee ready for this morning. Although this morning when he woke up and went downstairs for a cup of coffee....he found the coffee maker on..but not a single drop of coffee. Mom forgot to add the water!!!
God help us.
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