Memories of My First Turkey!
By anniepa
@anniepa (27955)
United States
November 22, 2007 6:28pm CST
I got to thinking today about the first turkey I ever prepared, or at least had a hand in preparing. It wasn't on Thanksgiving, I think it was in the summer but I can't remember for sure. My husband, daughter and I went to visit a couple we were good friends with and their little boy. The men were going to go hunting or fishing - I'm not sure anymore - so the friend, Sue said she had a turkey to make and we should stay for dinner later that day. Neither she nor I had ever roasted a turkey before as we were both very young wives. We managed to make the stuffing from memories of watching our moms do it and we had all the ingredients for a complete dinner fit for Thanksgiving! We stuffed the bird and put it in the oven and by the time our husbands got back we were ready to put our delicious meal on the table. It was the men’s job to carve the turkey of course and, of course it had to be MY husband who discovered the little bag still inside covered with stuffing. Yes, that’s right, we didn’t realize the bag with the giblets and other stuff was inside the turkey so we roasted them, bag and all! We took some ribbing for that but the meal was delicious, especially for our first attempt! We were all trained and ready for when Thanksgiving came around that year. Does anyone else have any stories like that of cooking attempts? Let’s discuss it, I won’t tell a soul!
Annie
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@yojspew (171)
• Philippines
23 Nov 07
I'm from the Philippines so we don't have Thanksgiving celebration. But I will tell you my first experience with eating not cooking a turkey..hehehe (co'z I don't know how to cook)
I remember in my aunt's house there's a huge turkey. Sometimes the turkey accidentally goes out of his cage. Whenever he sees people he would chase them and attack them with his beak. One time, I didn't know that he went out of his cage again..I was sitting in the terrace when he went behind my back and started attacking me with his beak..I almost got injured seriously..Luckily, our neighbor saw what happened so he helped me to get away from the turkey.
The next day my aunt decide to kill the turkey and cook it. After it was cooked I really wanted to it all of it but since I don't like turkey. I decide to give it to my dogs..^^..sweet revenge!..^^
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
23 Nov 07
My husband and son had gone to Kentucky for the weekend and I had to stay in Illinois since I had to work the weekend. Well I decided to bake them a cake for when they came back. It was the day they were to come home and I knew about what time they would be getting in. I whipped up the cake in the bowl and poured it into the cake pan and then into the oven. I sat down on the couch to read. The next thing I knew my husband was in the house waking me up. The trailer was all full of smoke. When he asked me what I had cooking I had to think a minute. By the time I came awake enough to realize it was a cake in the oven my son had grabbed it out of the stove. The cake was just one big black and I mean coal black cake. We had to open all the windows to get the smoke out of the trailer. My husband carried that around in the back of his truck for a very long time. It was a very long time before he quit ribbing me about it.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
24 Nov 07
I think I must have been blessed and inherited my great-grandmother's skills in cooking and she WAS THE cook of the family..In no way did I inherit my grandmother's or mother's cooking skills who could burn water. Nope I've never had any cooking mishaps but I do have a story about my grandmother. This was when she was a young bride, so she wanted to impress her newly married husband and insisted on fixing her very first Thanksgiving without her mother's (my great-grandmother) help. From what I gather, everything went great until the turkey. From the outside it looked all nicely roasted to a deep golden brown, but when they started to carve into it, it, well, wasn't exactly done but raw inside...LOL
