First Thanksgiving without any parents for both me and my wife.

Probably will be the best thanksgiving you ever had LOL

I opted out on turkey this year and we’re doing 2 Honey baked hams with a lot of sides. Focus on the visit and not the food.

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Just buy a fried turkey or one already cooked. Or start a new tradition of going to a nice steak house.

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Too late. My fridge and countertops look like we are preparing to feed an entire baptist church…there will be 6 people total.

Go to Dinner and celebrate a new way of Thanksgiving together to take the pressure off.
Next year do it at home.
Will be easier.
Just my thoughts.

My mom’s dressing was so good but she never wrote down the recipe, just one of the things we take for granted. Will never be able to taste that again

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How did I get to be 50 and never cooked a fricking Turkey? This should be fun.

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You’ll learn that the old hens in the kitchen generally cook a dry tasteless turkey.

Follow a good recipe, butter underneath the skin and outside, inject it etc.

Do not get a frickin frozen turkey. Costco has fresh ones

The smallest Honey Baked Ham this year was $80.00 with tax.

I cook a turkey in a large turkey roasting bag. It's so easy. Slip the washed and seasoned turkey into the bag and add cut up apples, onions, garlic, carrots, celery and potatoes in the bag also. Seal it good and place in the oven set the time and temperature according to the cooking bag instructions. This cooking method produces a tender, best tasting and juicy turkey. As a bonus the oven stays perfectly clean. I highly recommend oven cooking bags....especially turkey cooking bags.

Buy one already cooked or go to Cracker Barrel. Don't make it more work than it has to be.