https://youtu.be/dJZeAAs2V2c?si=Fvk9fyEkawLuNuuS

Lots of garlic butter, and there’s bacon. I’m trying this the next time I do Thanksgiving at home.

My vegan son is an excellent cook; his teen-age daughter has health issues that preclude a meat diet, although they only discovered that this past year. She is doing much, much better now, and the family started cooking new ways to support her, and discovered they liked it.

Me: I enjoyed the meal, but I’m too old and set in my ways to stop eating meat entirely and it doesn’t bother me, so I won’t. However, we have gone from me cooking fresh turkey in the oven to my other DiL cooking smoked turkey in a covered roaster.
Tastes good either way!
And there are always plenty of left-overs.

The turkey (not injected with any basting solutions, just turkey) is in the fridge on a rack, uncovered, salted inside and out. Tomorrow, we’ll smear the outside with ghee, add pepper and onion powder, put a cut onion in the cavity, and put it in a 450º oven, reducing immediately to 325º. Dressing with sausage and apple, homemade cranberry sauce. And the best thing about all this is the turkey soup made next day. I would not go through all this without making soup.