The first year we cooked a Thanksgiving Turkey in our current house we ran into a "size" problem.  As we prepared the Turkey, Husband says with strong conviction: "it’s not going to fit".  Their was no question - the bird was not going to fit into the oven.  It looked like a standard oven size and although we had lived in the house 9 months it never occurred to us the oven was small.   Yet for some reason the inside of the oven was not tall enough.  We never even thought of this as a potential problem until we were about to put the turkey in the oven. Of course this is not what I wanted to hear but Husband had a solution saying "I'll just remove the broiler coil".  It sounded simple but, not surprisingly, it led to trouble.  He actually got the coil out with only a bit of trouble and the Turkey cooked fine making a great meal.  Unfortunately, the broiler coil came out easier than it went back in.  In fact, it never went back in - seems broiler coils and finger grease don't mix.  So we now remember that event as the Thanksgiving the turkey killed the broiler. I'll leave it to you to decide if the bird or Husband was the turkey.

The very next Thanksgiving the oven was ready for us!  We, or as I like to think of it, the Turkey had killed the oven's broiler and the oven was now going to kill our Thanksgiving.  Dinner was progressing nicely until about halfway through the cooking when we noticed something was amiss.  While the Turkey was initially cooking, we no longer had aromas, juice, or ... heat!  Yup the oven died.  Husband says I'll try to fix it.  Now he is very handy but he is not an oven repairer.  I made the decision it was time to call for help.  Fortunately, our next door neighbor had a double oven.  I'm still eternally grateful to Janet for letting us cook our Turkey in her oven even though her family was visiting from out of town and even though we basted the Turkey throughout the cooking.  Thanks to Janet, although dinner was late, and although our oven was dead, our bird was cooked and Thanksgiving turned out great.

I hope that this Thanksgiving will bring many cherished memories.  But upon reflecting on the many issues we've had over the years, I also hope this years memories are of family and fine food rather than issues with the bird, the oven or anything else both for my Thanksgiving and yours!  Happy Thanksgiving!