I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while.  I've started a "Gena's Kitchen" Facebook page--which has a much wider audience than my sad little blog!  You can actually find it under www.facebook.com/cookwithgena.  (Primarily because /genaskitchen was already taken :(.)

The holidays are right around the corner, starting with Thanksgiving in less than a week.  I am cooking Thanksgiving dinner at home for the first time in something like two decades.  It will just be the four of us.  Maybe five?  Lucas and his girlfriend Sam will likely end up with two meals that day--our house and hers.

I'm debating braising the turkey instead of roasting it.  After brining for a few hours, it simply braises in a slow oven for just under two hours.  According to Cook's Illustrated, it minimizes the risk of dried out white meat.  The downside--no "inside the bird" stuffing.  The upside?  LOTS more gravy.  We'll see.