Fresh or Frozen Whole Turkeys
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Remove turkey from bag. Drain juices and pat dry with clean paper towels.
• Place turkey lifter across full length of flat rack in a shallow roasting pan, 2 to 2 1/2 inches deep.
• Tuck wings back to hold the neck skin in place. Doing so will help stabilize the turkey in the pan and when carving. Place thawed or fresh turkey, breast up, on the turkey lifter. Raise one loop over wings and breast, and the other loop over drumsticks. Rest loops on turkey, not over edge of pan during roasting.
• Brush skin lightly with vegetable oil or spray with cooking spray to prevent the skin from drying.
• Insert oven-safe meat thermometer deep into the lower part of the thigh muscle but not touching the bone. When thigh is up to temperature and if turkey is stuffed, move thermometer to center of stuffing. Stuffing should be 165 degrees when done.
•Place your turkey in the pre-heated oven at 325 degrees.
• When the turkey is about 2/3 done, loosely cover the breast and top of drumsticks with a piece of lightweight foil to prevent overcooking.
Use this roasting schedule as a guide and start checking for doneness about 30 minutes before end of recommended cooking times.
• Your turkey is done when the meat thermometer reaches the following temperatures:
180 degrees deep in the thigh. At this temperature juices should be clear, not reddish pink, when thigh muscle is pierced deeply.
165 degrees in the center of the stuffing, if turkey is stuffed.
• Lift roasted turkey onto platter with turkey lifter and discard lifter.
• Before removing stuffing and carving, let your turkey stand 15 minutes to allow juices to set.
Turkey Cooking Times
Net Weight (lb.) Unstuffed (hrs.) Stuffed (hrs.)
4½ to 7 2 to 2½ 2¼ to 2¾
7 to 9 2½ to 3 2¾ to 3½
9 to 18 3 to 3½ 3¾ to 4½
18 to 22 3½ to 4 4½ to 5
22 to 24 4 to 4½ 5 to 5½
24 to 30 4½ to 5 5½ to 6¼
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Taco Bell is the latest restaurant chain to reach out to iPhone users.
The chain’s iPhone app allows fans to locate a Taco Bell nearest to their current location, according to the chain’s Facebook page. The app also displays an updated list of foods found on the chain’s Why Pay More Value (79¢, 89¢, 99¢) menu.
Taco Bell Facebook fan Bill had this to say about it: “I just installed it. It’s not as cool as I thought considering I eat there so much and know all of the prices, but it’s so convenient to others who don’t eat there as much I guess.”
After Michael Jackson’s death the Jackson Mania kicked in all over the internet. Amazon, ebay & itunes all top the charts with Michael Jackson memorabilia and recordings.
A Michael Jackson portrait by Andy Warhol that sold for $278,500 in May is being offered for a minimum of $800,000 by an East Hampton, New York, gallery, reflecting the booming market for Jackson items since the pop singer’s death on June 25.
Six days before he was to begin a 50-date comeback tour in London, Michael Jackson will instead be eulogized at a massive memorial service today at Staples Center. Like Michael Jackson’s life his death will be swarmed with media and public outpouring.
Confirmed attendees for the Michael Jackson Memorial are Justin Timberlake, Lionel Richie and his daughter Nicole, rapper Akon, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Beyonce and Mariah Carey, Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson are also expected to perform. Jackson’s older brother Jermaine is likely to perform.
ABCNews.com has also confirmed that Jackson’s fellow Motown artists Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder and Motown founder Berry Gordy will also attend. Look for Gladys Knight and Jackson idol Diana Ross to also show up.
Usher, John Mayer, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant are also scheduled to participate, according to the Jackson family’s spokesman.
Hersheysgifts.com the online place for buying all your chocolate needs is coming to a close this month, Hershey’s has announced that July 30th it will be closing it’s online store. You can visit now and get 25% off. Believe it or not the claim for closing was the present online model cost too much, compared to old fashioned ways of selling sweets. States are starting to press online taxing, Amazon.com and Overstock.com both have warned they will stop shipping there before they’ll pay to help governments collect. Hershey’s Gifts
Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest – July 4, 2009 (Surf and Stillwell, Coney Island) show begins at 10:30. Watch it live on ESPN beginning at Noon!
The large Nathan’s stand at Surf & Stillwell Avenues still sells over one million hot dogs each year. It is open all year and around the clock so customers can visit even when there is seemingly no one else at Coney.
people who collect PEZ candy dispensers are known as “PEZheads”
Spaceman Pez Sign
Pez Candy T-shirt
Pez Candy Swimwear
Pez Candy Girl
Pez Jacket
Pez Background
Peppermint Pez Girl
Pez Classic Collection
Pez Refill Candies
PEZ Collector/author David Welch made it into the 2000 and 2001 edition of the “Guinness Book of World Records” by selling three PEZ dispensers for $18,000 in 1998. The dispensers were a shiny gold elephant, a soft Mickey Mouse head and a headless dispenser that bore the words “PEZ-HAAS”.
made from the following ingredients:
Sugar, Corn Syrup, Adipic Acid, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel & Palm Oils
And Soybean Oil Mono & Diglycerides, Natural & Artificial Flavors, Artificial
Colors (including FD&C Red 3, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 2 – depending on which flavor).
