Turkey Cooking Facts & Safety
I want to reblog this post in hopes it will make a safer Thanksgiving for you and your family.
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, everyone will want to enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner safely with your family and friends. You need to make sure that you thaw the turkey correctly, cook the turkey to the proper temperature and then store your leftovers correctly to ensure everyone goes home full and that they do not end up in the hospital.
Follow these guidelines provided by the USDA website: https://www.fsis.usda.gov
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In Dianes Kitchen 
Thank you!
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Turkey is best cooked long and slow, and eaten the same way. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving.
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Thank you and you also!
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Turkey weekend is right around the corner! Enjoy your get together with family and loved ones.
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Thank you Ab! You do the same.
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Thanks Diane. We had Thanksgiving a month ago here in Canada. Shockingly, T now asks for Turkey. Oh all the meats to ask for he had to choose the one that’s complicated to make. 😆
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Do like I do, roast a turkey and take the meat off of the bones then freeze it for meals. Then it’s not as much work.
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I can’t wait when a hotdog will satisfy this kid. 🙂
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I have hotdog Friday with my grandson (7) every week and he thinks it’s the greatest.
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That sounds like heaven!
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It’s so nice not to have to plan dinner two nights a week. My hubby makes dinner on Saturday to give me a break.
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That is a wonderful thing he does especially for all the cooking you do!
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I agree and I do look forward to it. My grandkids are starting to say not rigatoni again! So now I am coming up with a simple meal I know they love, he can make and I still get a break. I had him make taco quesadillas last week and everyone was happy.
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Taco quesadillas sounds wonderful!
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That is how I have always done it. I put enough cooked meat (white and dark) in a bread bag then in a freezer bag. It seems to keep from freezer burn that way. However, we were gifted 2 fresh turkeys! I am going to cook one tomorrow but the other one I am experimenting with. I cut it apart and froze the entire breast in one double bag. Not sure what’s I will do with it yet. Then I froze one leg, thigh and wing in their own bags. I may use them to make soup, not sure yet.
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A chart is a good thing. When I was first married, I totally miscalculated the cooking/resting time for the turkey and dinner was served two hours later than originally planned!
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I always feel mistakes are what teach us to do better, look at how great a cook you are now!
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Thanks! But so much of it at the beginning is trial and error.
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Good to educate people. So I have to tell you the first time I made a Thanksgiving turkey on my own, I did not realize there was a giblets package at the back of the turkey and I did not remove it. Yes I stuffed and baked the turkey with a plastic package of giblets inside…but everything turned out okay (or everyone recovered from plastic poisoning eventually lol.
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I am sure you aren’t the only one that has ever done that. Lol
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