Just In Time For Thanksgiving - A *Butter* Butterball Turkey

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I would hate

To clean that oven...LOL, A open roasted turkey makes almost as big a mess as a duck...But I LOVE turkey any way you fix it!...I put mine in a covered roaster.
 
Fried turkey

is still popular down in this part of the world. Those with sense share a fryer for several households to save on oil. I hate the damn things, just plain greasy. But then I'm not a real turkey fan anyway. I like chicken better.

If this were the only way people were getting saturated fats there'd be no problem. It's all the other crap people eat, processed foods, that are killing them.

I know that it was very, very popular in generations past to use butter in the skillet to cook steaks. I've tried it and it's very tasty. Forces you to use low heat, of course.
 
Butter for steaks

Ohhh yes!

In France and many other places pan frying steaks calls for butter. I've done it and yes it produces a great tasty steak.

But what the heck, long as one is going down that path of eating red meat; a bit more fat (saturated and unsaturated) isn't going to harm... *LOL*
 
Butter in moderation isn’t going to kill anyone. And butter is much healthier for you than margarine. No other fat gives food a better flavor than butter. But I do agree, they did seem to use a rather excessive amount in the old Butterball commercial. My Mom used to put the cheese cloth over the turkey, but she didn’t continue to baste it with melted butter, she basted it with the pan drippings.
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Eddie

That's what I always loved about Julia Child. I was vegan and/or vegetarian for nearly 30 years but I enjoyed her cooking. She was never authoritarian about foods or ingredients, despite the food and nutrition fads going around. I still think her book and video series, "The Way To Cook", is a great primer for anyone new to the practice.
 
butter is much healthier for you than margarine.

 

It's funny, because I remember an era when conventional margarine was loudly proclaimed to be so much healthier. Voices saying otherwise were fringe nuts. And then they discovered that transfat problem...and suddenly margarine didn't look so good any more...


 

 
 
I, too, really liked Julia Child. When I was first cooking, I read chunks of her Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and appreciated it so much. Later, thanks to AW.org, I went out of my way to see her cooking show (on DVD from the library), and what was going to be "just watch enough to get a sense of what this was like" became "watch the whole set."
 
And I might as well post this recipe like I do each year. Pack the turkey with unpopped popcorn. Sew it up. Put it into a hot oven. When the turkey's rear end blows off, the turkey is done!

 

LOL
 
I've used roasting bags for years, too. I make the turkey the day before (mashed potatoes and gravy, too), then slice and pan it with juices to transfer to my nephew's for Thanksgiving.

On butter: I'm in the 'Fifth Food Group' camp. Rarely does a dish not benefit from the addition of a little (or a lot of) butter. I recall a fad a few years ago in which people added a bit to their coffee. No interest in trying that one.

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Oven Bags

are worth every penny. I have a big Magnalite roaster that I use in the oven and I use one of those bags.
 
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