Thanksgiving 2006: This year’s turkey recipe

This year, my turkey is an 11.4 pound Butterball, and was prepared as follows:

1. Remove all the extra stuff and rinse the bird. Put it in a roasting pan on a v-rack.
2. Coarsely cut up four carrots, half an onion, two pink lady apples, and four stalks of celery.
3. Cut up some basil.
4. Melt two sticks of butter in the microwave.
5. Stir the basil into the melted butter.
6. Add some cumin, pepper, rosemary, and salt and stir the melted butter mixture together.
7. Using your hands, separate the skin from the turkey breast and rub the turkey breast with the butter mixture.
8. Stuff the inside of the bird with half of your veggies. Put the other half in the roasting pan.
9. Pre-heat the oven to 500 degrees.
10. Put the turkey in the oven at 500 degrees for 30 minutes.
11. Once the turkey is in the oven, take the giblets out of the bag that they came in and rinse them.
12. Put the giblets in a sauce pan with chicken broth, two pressed cloves of garlic, pepper, and half a stick of butter. You will use this to baste the bird while it’s cooking.
13. After 30 minutes, reduce the heat to 350 degrees and cover the turkey breast with an aluminum foil hat (haha).
14. Cook the turkey until the breast is right around 160 degrees.
15. Let the turkey stand for 30 minutes and enjoy!