Our First Thanksgiving Together!

Nicholas hung Christmas lights as I cooked turkey with mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries & apple pie. Lesson learned for next year: #1) start the turkey earlier than you think you need to because if it takes too long to cook you can't fit anything else in the oven or it is the wrong temperature and #2) make as much as possible ahead of time, e.g. cranberries, brown the sausage for your stuffing and cube the bread ahead of time, etc.
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Crisp-Skinned Spatchcocked (Butterflied) Roast Turkey With Gravy Recipe
Crisp-Skinned Golden Brown Turkey: HOW TO SPATCHCOCK, GRAVY and CARVE. To test 2017. 19 pound turkey -> test reducing temp to 425.
Good Eats Roast Turkey
TO TEST -- Good Eats Roast Turkey recipe from Alton Brown
Accidental Turkey
Accidental Turkey - good & moist. Don't forget to brine the turkey a couple days ahead of time. (Oops.) Also, this needed to cook longer than the recipe said. I would bake this 30 minutes sooner than I wanted to take it out. Otherwise, you can't bake anything else until too late, e.g. stuffing. Caution: if using the pan juices to make gravy, be sure to add enough water & stock to the pan. I used 4 cups stock and it was a bit too salty. I used Martha Stewart's recipe for turkey gravy.
Sweet Soul 'Taters
Sweet Soul 'Taters Nicholas said this recipe is a repeat. They look better than in this picture. Make sure to make this in a big enough pan so the crumble topping comes into contact with the sweet potatoes. The crumble topping doesn't have butter so it relies on the moisture of the sweet potatoes.