I made my first Turkey!

Okay, for my FIRST time, it wasn't all that bad. I shoulda just put the whole darn stick of butter in there though. I mean seriously. I haven't had turkey for seven years because I was a vegetarian, and before that, I never really ate it because I thought it was too dry.

This year, I promised myself that it would be lovely. And I did a pretty good friggin job. But it was slightly dry. I'll take slightly over extremely any day. But I'm determined to do it right next year! Or the year after, depending on where the responsibilities like.

Everything else came out great. Last minute (like literally last minute - I was at the store the night before T-day buying everything), one of my guests texted me with a stuffing recipe she saw on Oprah. I was a little pissy that I had to change my ingredients while I was at the store, especially because I had already bought half the ingredients at the last store I was at....but it was soooo worth it. I think the stuffing was definitely the star this year!

Of course, I did hit a bit of a problem with the recipe. I put the wet ingredients in of the cornbread mix and then checked the video afterwards where I noticed that her stuffing was dry. But I tweaked the recipe last minute and it came out fabulously.

The changes:
I used two boxes of Trader Joe's cornbread mix which is hands down the easiest and most delicious cornbread I have EVER made/eaten. Since I added the eggs and milk to it already, I just put less liquids from the recipe (1 cup instead of 1 1/2 cup of OJ, and 2 cups of chicken broth instead of 4).

I ended up with a lot extra mix though, despite the fact that I used a large rectangular pyrex. I probably could have filled another square pyrex up. I guess it could be frozen for later? It was so good, I'm sure Scott won't mind having more in January/February :)