With exactly one week until Thanksgiving, it's time for us to give you the recipe you've all been waiting for: the turkey!

Monika's Thanksgiving Turkey

Pre-heat oven to 500* degrees

Place turkey in roaster pan (not on a rack)breast side up
Add 5-8 cups of water (depends on how big your roaster pan is and how much broth you want after cooking)
Rub turkey with salt/pepper/sage/etc.
Slice 1 stick of butter and add to water (you can also put some inside turkey.  I say if 1 stick is good, 2 could be even better!)

Tent roaster pan with heavy duty aluminum foil (seal well at edges of roaster pan so no air can escape.  Sometimes I double wraps with the foil.)

Cook for 1 hour at 500* (To add to the drama, we usually do this from 11pm-12am)
Turn off oven and leave in over for 8-10 hours. DO NOT OPEN OVEN DURING THIS PERIOD. 
(We usually put a sticky note on the oven just as a reminder not to open).

Take turkey out of oven at 8am and place in fridge until time to serve.
Reheat when ready to serve.

The meat will be falling off the bones when you remove the foil. It is usually really moist, and you can just transfer directly to a serving plate.

As you can tell, it’s kind of a loosey-goosey recipe. The main thing is to seal the foil tight – the turkey essentially steams to cook.
REMEMBER – this is NOT a pretty turkey at all!  But is sure is delicious.