It's National Turkey Free Thanksgiving Day! I guess I got confused and thought it meant you could give away turkey so I roasted one. Actually I bought two and roasted one. We bought a frozen one a couple of weeks ago and thawed it out in the refrigerator thinking it would keep until Thanksgiving. Then I read they only keep up to four days once you thaw them. And since I didn't want to poison everyone in the house and spend Thanksgiving hunched over (or on) the toilet being violently ill, I bought another turkey a couple of days ago. I did feel bad about the other turkey and I toyed with giving it a proper burial in the back yard, but I eventually just put in in the trash that hopefully they will pick up tomorrow.
Anyway, I brined the second turkey overnight and used a spice rub on it and popped it in the oven, basted it every 40 minutes
Finally I tested it with a meat thermometer and boom, free turkey. Though technically its feet were bound together so it wasn't really free. But it tasted pretty darned good and so no one has thrown up. I am thankful for that (as you should be on Thanksgiving).
And randomly, the phrase "mourning glory" popped into my head (not morning glory, like the flower, but "mourning glory" as in expressing grief and sorrow following a loss...in this case of glory). It took awhile coaxing Gemini and ChatGPT for images. At first ChatGPT gave me stuff like this.
Finally Gemini gave me this.
Not really t-shirt material, but I like it. But I may not in the morning.
Get it?
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