Newbie

So I have been reading several friends' blogs and have found them to be very interesting and a nice way to keep up with their lives. In what I will probably come to view as a moment of madness, I have decided to join the ranks of the bloggers! (Please forgive my lack of knowledge on this, hopefully I will catch on quickly!) I am thinking this will end up revolving around the three F's that seem to define my life- Family, Fashion and Food.

For today, I am consumed by the third word in that list- Food. I have no earthly idea what possessed me to volunteer to make the turkey for Thanksgiving this year, but I did- and subsequently set in motion a crazed search to figure out how to make the perfect turkey. If I had only known when I started the array of methods I would have to sort through, I might have thought twice and kept my traditional offering of the green bean casserole! (As a side-note: I am immensely proud of myself for looking into this as early as I did, because typically I would be frantically scavenging the day before Thanksgiving for everything from the how-to down to the necessary supplies!)

I started my search by googling "how to make the perfect turkey". (You should try it... It's amazing how everyone thinks that 'their' way is fool-proof and will result in the most succulent meat every time!) The options are endless- To brine or Not to brine; Organic free range, or good old frozen Butterball; On a roasting rack, in a roasting bag, breast up, or breast down...and on and on it goes!

With my head spinning, and words such as aromatic and divine dancing through my brain I have managed to begin formulating my plan via process of elimination. First, I am going to use a frozen turkey because I have no time or energy to figure out where you even procure an organic turkey, nor any true desire to have a freshly butchered turkey delivered to my door. Secondly, I have decided to go with a brine, and I found a recipe involving apple cider, orange peel, peppercorn, rosemary, brown sugar and salt. Mmmmhhh. Sounds delicious to me!

My goal is to have the rest of my plan firmly mapped out and all supplies for this adventure purchased by this weekend. I refuse to procrastinate on this, as is my usual MO! Wish me luck in remaining steadfast in this endeavor, as well as success so my family doesn't end up having to order pizza for Thanksgiving dinner!!!