Reviewed: Dec. 9, 2008

The best Turkey recipe i have ever tried. Very moist and delicious!

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Angelina

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Reviewed: Dec. 9, 2008

OMG!!!!!!This was the BEST

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

This was a really great turkey. I used an 8lb bone in turkey breast instead of a whole turkey because my family really only likes the breast meat anyway. I didn't change anything except that I used an oven bag instead of the foil. Came out perfectly golden brown and moist!

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

I will always cook my thanksgiving turkey this way. It came out moist and tender and everyone said it looked like something out of Martha Stewart's kitchen! I didn't have any seasoning salt, so I used regular salt. I added garlic powder and a little black pepper to the water to make up for it. Also, instead of mincing the onion, I just quartered 1 1/2 onions and put them inside the turkey, along with a half of a lemon quartered (I might use a whole one next time) and the inside stalks from 2 bunches of celery I had chopped up for stuffing and to eat with dip. I put the turkey in the oven just long enough to start browning, and then I loosely covered it with aluminum foil. During the last 30-45 minutes of cooking, I took the foil off and basted occasionally to let the turkey brown completely. I find that this method of cooking with the foil on keeps the turkey moist.

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

Loved this recipe. The turkey turned out fantastic. I will use this recipe again to make turkey; I see this becoming an old stand-by.

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boysmama

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

This was the first Thanksgiving turkey that I made all by myself and it was a huge hit. It was easy and perfect. Everyone loved it and it looked beautiful and smelled wonderful baking.

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AmyGal315

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Home Town: Dallas, Texas, USA

Living In: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

I combined this recipe with the Easy Herb Roasted Turkey, and it was perfect. I put the butter under the skin, but then I used olive oil, basil and garlic as a rub before I oput the turkey in the oven. It was a hit!

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Wendy

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Home Town: Sparta, Wisconsin, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 6, 2008

I made this for Thanksgiving dinner. It came out so moist and delicious! My husband said that when he was a kid he had to drink glasses and glasses of milk to 'choke down' all the dry turkey he had to eat. He never once got out of his seat for a second beverage with this bird. Thanks for such a terrific recipe!

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HILARYESTA

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Reviewed: Dec. 5, 2008

This was the best turkey I have cooked. I was a little afraid of changing the way I have cooked a turkey for years, but now I'm glad I did. To get tons of drippings for gravy, I cooked the turkey in a bag, plus put water in the pan the turkey was in. That saves any juice from drying up. Thanks!!

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DORIE43

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Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2008

i have used this recipe for the past 4 thanksgivings as a basis for my turkey..this year, i think i have mastered it at it's best by doing the following: use chicken broth instead of water..tuck onion, carrots, celery in cavity (dont eat, just use for flavor)/use tons more butter than is called for and mash roasted garlic into that butter along with mashed sage,herbs..if you dont add something to the butter, your turkey will be bland aside from the skin..baste every 45 minutes, and remember not to seal the foil up, just tent it or your turkey will steam and even if you brown the skin at the end, it wont be crispy enough..that happened to me one year..all in all though, the butter stuck in under the skin and the constant basting is the key..oh, and keep your turkey on a rack..dont let it sit in the load of juice that forms on bottom..enjoy!

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Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2008

This turkey was amazing! ESP the gravy! I wish I added more broth to get more gravy! Only problem was the bottom of the turkey wasn't cooked entirely (not sure why?) and I'm wondering if it's because I didn't use a rack in the aluminium pan so the turkey was sitting in the juices and broth, OR because I had to put a large pizza tray underneath the aluminum pan to support it. The breast was so moist yummmmmy!!!

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Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2008

Wow, is all I can say.. This was the first turkey recipes I ever tried, and my first turkey, for that matter. It was so easy to follow, and my turkey turned out delicious, my fiance LOVED it, and his father is a professional chef. The turkey was not dry, at all, in fact it was incredibly moist, I did adjust the cooking temperature to slightly lower than suggested, and cooked it for about 30 minutes more, overall this is a fantastic recipe for beginners!

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Stephanie Schiller

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Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2008

The turkey was delicious and easy to prepare, but BEWARE THE COOKING TIME! Figuring the recipe said to cook a 12lb turkey for 4 hrs and one of the reviews said their 21lb turkey was done in 6 hrs, I planned my whole dinner around my 21lb turkey taking about 5 1/2 - 6 hours. After 4 1/2 hrs, I checked on the turkey to remove the foil and try to let it crisp a little the last hour and when I checked the temp, it was perfectly done! I panicked because the rest of the meal was still an hour away from being ready and because i hadn't removed the foil yet, the top of the bird was not brown at all...so i uncovered it and put it back in the oven to try to brown it and when i took it out a little while later, it was over done....the temp didn't even register on the thermometer! it was off the dial! It was still a very good turkey and pretty moist, but I don't think it was AS MOIST as it should have been.

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Reviewed: Dec. 3, 2008

We used this recipe when making our turkey for Thanksgiving this year and I have to say, best turkey I've ever tasted! I'm usually a dark meat person because white meat tends to be dry. Even then I usually have to drown it in gravy. Not the case with this turkey. I did follow the recipe and didn't change anything.

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Nikki

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Living In: Greeley, Colorado, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 3, 2008

This turkey was so moist it fell right off the bone! It still had over an hour left to cook and I decided to check and it was perfect!

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Melissa

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Reviewed: Dec. 3, 2008

This was my first Thanksgiving cooking and this recipe turned out great. However, next time I will leave out the seasoning salt. This time I halved it based upon previous reviews and it still left my gravy very salty. I shoved lots of butter under the skin. Also, I don't know if it was my oven or roasting pan, but I ended up pouring 3 cans of chicken broth in into the bottom of the pan throughout the roasting time because all the drippings kept burning/drying up. All in all, a great recipe!

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McK in Oki

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Reviewed: Dec. 2, 2008

After 10 years of cooking our holiday dinners and trying out new recipes the search is finally over for the perfect turkey! Everyone raved that this was the best and most moist turkey the have ever tasted in their lives. My mother in law even stole the recipe on her way out. I used a Butterball turkey that was already brined (most Butterballs are) and followed the directions almost exactly. The only change I made was to cut down a little on the chicken bouillon to 2 T since it seemed a little much and stuffed the bird with a peeled/cored apple which is supposed to help keep it moist. The drippings made a perfect gravy as is by just thickening it with Wondra and water. Perfect and easy...definitely try this one!

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DariaWalsh

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Reviewed: Dec. 2, 2008

This was the first time that I made a turkey and it was so wonderful! I'm so glad that I used this recipe! My fiance was wowed by my turkey-cooking skills. This recipe will definitely be used again and again- no changes necessary!

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Cali Cook

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Living In: North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 2, 2008

This was my first Turkey to ever make! I hosted my first Thanksgiving for 30 people! This turkey turned out amazing! It was so juicy! Everyone was shocked! Thank you so much for the recipe! I impressed everyone!!

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