1st Christmas Turkey Dinner at MY HOUSE

Ever since I had my own place, at about age 23, I wanted to have Christmas Dinner at MY HOUSE. This has never happened UNTIL THIS YEAR!

I was so excited, now I am a grown up! Really!

I was never able to host before because my house has never been large enough to accommodate my family. When I was 23 my downtown Calgary apartment was too small, when I was 29 my Montreal apartment was too far away, and up until this year my two story home home has been too small.

Oh sure I have hosted Christmas Morning Breakfasts in the past, and the come and go Christmas Eve event we host every year, but this year I was in trusted with the Big Event.

So the fresh 20 pound Turkey was ordered, the guests were given their dish to bring, and I was so excited to cook my FIRST TURKEY EVER!!

So as you probably already know, 20 pounds of Turkey is heavy! Hubby was given the job of washing the Turkey along with the removal of the giblets (ewww!!!).

We had to borrow my mothers roaster, as of course, why would I have one that was big enough? I seasoned the bird and then that Turkey was gently placed (read shoved upside down, oops) into the roaster to cook.

The Turkey was basted a few times (without a baster, as who has one of those when you haven't cooked a Turkey before?) temperature was checked (by my Father, as I seemed always to be feeding a baby when he deemed it time to check) and when it was declared DONE, my father and Hubby gentlemanly asked each other who should do the honor of carving the bird, (my Dad ended up with the job) and Dinner was served.

Only one kink in this otherwise perfect Tale a Cooked Turkey, half my family that had RSVP'd had come down with the stomach flu and didn't show up... so we have had Turkey for almost a week!! Luckily we had some great Turkey recipes handy to add variety to the LARGE amounts of left overs we had!

Who knew cooking a Turkey was so easy? ha ha I am volunteering for this job EVERY YEAR as it seems everyone is so worried about overwhelming the hostess, she doesn't get to do much!