Hmmm, I think the best part about Thanksgiving is the smells. The all day smell of something good cooking in the kitchen.

I think this must have been what it was like, back in the days when Mom's didn't always have to work, or even further back when they had those great big whole kitchen wood stoves and everything took all day to cook in it.

Thought I'd share my mish-mosh of a Turkey Recipe.

Take one bird. 12-14lbs.

3 tables spoons of olive oil

2 tablesspoons fresh Rosemary

2 tablespoons fresh thyme

1 Whole headof garlic minced

1 tablespoon lemon pepper

2 tablespoons oregono

1 tablespoon sweet basil

Mix all together. Rub in turkey cavity. Work skin loose over breast meat and rub under skin. Rub on skin as well. It smells wonderful!

Take 1/2 an apple, 1/2 an onion cut into slices and 2 cinnomon sticks.

put into a 1/4 cup of water and cook in microwave for 5 min.

Stuff into Turkey (replaces traditional stuffing)

Heat stove to 500 degrees and put turkey in legs first, cook for 1/2 with no tinfoil to brown, then lower temperature to 350 degrees tent turkey with tinfoil, Cook about 2 hrs or until the turkey is done to your liking.

Turkey always comes out great! The legs in first is because that side of the turkey is dark meat and takes longer to cook. The back of the stove is the hottest so it cooks without drying out the white meat in the front.

I actually saw part of this on a TV show on the Food Network and got the other half (skin rub) from a health magazine.

Enjoy!