Magazine Monday: Today, I cooked a turkey.
Today, I am a grown-up.
Never mind the fact that I have lived on my own since college and have a job that pays me enough to justify a nice handbag purchase or two. Never mind the fact that I generally can take care of myself on a daily basis and be a productive member of society.
Today, I am officially a grown-up.
Because today, I cooked a turkey.
(I expect that each one of you is now giving me a standing ovation wherever you might be reading this.)
Well maybe it was a turkey breast. And maybe I cooked it in a crockpot.
But I still feel all the more grown-up for it.
To know me is to know that I will never ever commit to making the high profile main dish for a meal. The thought of doing that absolutely terrifies me. (A high profile dessert, on the other hand, I jump at the chance to make.)
But I was doing research for Magazine Monday over the weekend. (And by research, I mean sitting in my comfy chair, sipping a cup of coffee, and reading magazines.) While paging through America’s Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution, I found a recipe for Turkey Breast and Gravy.
You see, a crockpot always gives me the false sense of being able to cook. Throw a bunch of ingredients in it with minimal preparation and five to eight hours later I have dinner. It is magic!
And now this magazine was telling me I could cook a turkey in crockpot.
Challenge accepted.
So while the rest of you were watching the Super Bowl last night, I was doing battle with this.
After I get over the initial grossness of opening the wrapper on the turkey, I was on a roll. Soon enough, the turkey was sitting on a bed of onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and broth.
Does anyone else get nervous leaving the crockpot unattended? I know that that is the whole point of a crockpot but I just cannot do it. I usually use it when I am home for the day. I had to run an errand while the turkey was in the crockpot and I was secretly wishing I had a Nanny Cam-style Crockpot Camera to monitor it. Apparently, I am a helicopter crockpot parent. But six and half hours later, turkey success!
Today I cooked a turkey. And then ate it like a grown-up. On my good dinnerware.
The Slow Cooker Revolution by America’s Test Kitchen is on sale at Whole Foods Market Bethesda until February 27th. It’ll make you feel like a grown-up, I promise.
Rebecca is Whole Foods Market Bethesda’s store blogger and also the blogger behind I Wanna Be a Domestic Goddess.
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Hi, Rebecca!
Love this post. Yay on you for making your first turkey. Our first turkey we made was four years ago and everyone loved it but Rex. He was 8 months old, so we’ll give him a pass.
This time, we did it again (for Christmas, and with a DEELISSH organic bird from whole foods old town), and the whole family loved it, not just the adults.
I guess even my babes are growing up in their own way. LOL.