The turkey came out pallid as a supermarket mushroom. The meat thermometer barely registered. Yes, I had something wrong with my gas oven. It seemed to be off by about 100 degrees. So I knew it had to go in for a few more hours. But I’d already timed the brussel sprouts and carrots and potatoes to be ready standing by when the turkey came out. Anyway, back in it went. Then it came out massively overdone
And looking as though it had just been run over by an 18 wheeler.
It was just missing the tire treads.

So we dined on tough bird and mushy veg. With heaps of wine.

I don’t blame Bonnie. Not at all. And I have subsequently tried her “laid back turkey” in a functional oven. (and she has a recipe for it in her new book Friday Night Dinners. Hope you catch our conversation on December 21st).

My other turkey story relates to the radio as well. Back on Morningside, we were getting mail about tricks to surviving the holiday season. A woman wrote in that she loaded the stuffing into the leg of (clean) pantyhose so you could just pull it out of the turkey in one go. I tried this…with black pantyhose that turned the stuffing and the meat around it a nuclear green. There have to be other ways to have a green Christmas dinner…