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As you may know, I actually celebrated Christmas with my family this year on the 11th, but I also celebrated Christmas with Ly on the 25th. It was nice this year to be able to spend it with him, even though he had to work at the hospital until 4.

I felt so domestic this year! We decided to have Turkey for dinner and I prepared and cooked it all by myself — even with my own “recipe!” Those that have eaten my cooking know I like to do things a little different, so too with my Turkey. I decided to make a lemon-infused Turkey (I just love infusing flavor — whatever that means). So I made a 12lb Turkey, because that’s the smallest QFC had when we went shopping - but it actually turned out to be a good size, just enough left overs.

It was a little frozen still when I took it out of its wrappings so I decided to apply water to it directly– eeek. But after rinsing it for a few minutes in warm water, the excess ice chips all melted. I peeled four lemons and stuck them in the cavity and took a bunch of sage as well as some other spices (too early in the morning to remember), peeled back the skin, and stuffed it between the skin and the meat. I also stuck like a stick of butter in various parts of the cavity and skin. I baked it at 325 for so long… it just wouldn’t get up to the 180 degrees. It wasn’t actually that long, just delayed the Turkey by about 45 minutes. This actually gave me more time to brown the Turkey, as I forgot to remove the covering until that time.

Since there were only two of us, we decided to not cook a bunch of other stuff, so I made mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, rolls, and corn (and of course cranberry sauce) — which was definately a good amount for sufficient left overs!