How did you cook yours

I imagine that it is to help the roll keep its shape!

We cooked a massive Turkey ( over 12lbs ) . Smeared with butter,covered with bacon washers. Onions and herbs inside. Cooked for 1 hour on 7 and then about 5 hours at 3. Foil off for last 45 mins. It was a free range great Turkey. It has fed 16 on Christmas day. 10 for supper on boxing day and some left for sandwiches today. Then soup to be made. It was melt in the mouth delicious.

The best way to cook a turkey (and everything else) is open a bottle of wine, retire to a comfy seat and let sister's SiL and his DB do everything !!
Worked a treat !!

I cooked a 5Kg turkey following a Scott Rea recipe. Herb butter under skin plus steaky bacon covering, onion and lemon in cavity. 40 mins at 220, 2.5 hrs at 170 and final browning for 30 mins at 200. It was recommended that the resting is done breast side down, so that the juices drain back into the breast. The most moist result ever, I think.

I like Tom Kerridge recipes, I have previously done his honey-roast streaky bacon piece. Pour on a whole bottle of runny honey and cook at 180 for 40-50 minutes, basting religiously every 10 minutes until honey is thick and sticky. Delicious hot or cold.

That is now my way of cooking tiggypiro EXCEPT we wouldn't have eaten at all if I hadn't done it!! Chicken only though this year.

I roasted mine the traditional way, with bacon slices over the breast. I stuffed the neck end with sausage meat and put an onion in the cavity. I put a little water in the roasting tin, covered the whole thing with foil and left it. I made gravy with the stock left in the tin when the turkey was cooked. It was beautiful. Better than expected, because my turkey was a frozen one, reduced in the Co-op last January, and sitting in my freezer all year.

kitty if the cling film is just to keep the roll in shape, I think I'd have felt a bit safer with good old fashioned string

Typo alert. Our Turkey was over 12 kgs not lbs. !!!

Oh my goodness, and it should be rashers not washers !!!!!

We have just carved the rest of the turkey and there are a good few more meals left on it than I thought.

Chicken for us too - one of "ours", or at least bought from a farmer neighbour and fattened up here.
I haven't had much success with stuffed and roast poultry recently, so always do a casserole with the bird jointed and lots of different vegetables.

It didn't feel at all unsafe jane and it kept the meat really moist. I am not a fan of Tom Kerridge, as I think he can be a bit cheffy, but I would certainly do that again.

Kitty in praise of Tom Kerridge he is a very pleasant non-full of himself type of chef. He lives in my small town in the Thames Valley.

He owns a very expensive 2 Michelin star pub in the town, which is sadly out of our price range, but he has just opened a lovely small pub off the high street which is open all day with affordable delicious food cooked by the same chefs from the main pub. In fact we are popping in there this morning for a homemade apricot Danish and coffee.

Finally Tom is seen around the town all the time and is very approachable.

Now back to the thread. My D in L cooked a delicious turkey, I have no idea how as I was too busy playing with the boys and their pirate ship !

I wasn't commenting on his personality Nankate just his recipes!

At DD1's for Christmas. She's an excellent cook and with had a Waitrose turkey cooked traditionally á la Delia with all the trimmings. Bubble and squeak on Boxing Day. BUT there was so much food left over the turkey carcass hasn't been sorted. (I did offer - twice) There's loads of meat left on it which will now go to waste - grrrrr!
#moremoneythansense.

Oh I see what you mean Kitty my apologies.

Cooking and me don't real go together I don't know my Nigella from my Blumenthal

Why is the turkey remains going to waste? There's lots you can do with leftover turkey. I was brought up never to waste anything and i'm shocked at the amount that gets slung into the bin when there are so many needy people who dont know where their next meal is ciming from.
My MiL horrified me - anything not eaten on Christmas day was binned. I couldnt believe it? Am i out if date?

The turkey remains had got left in a cooling oven MrsM - and I think we're still there when we left this morning! No one got round to picking the bones - no room in the fridge. I wouldn't trust eating it!

What a shame- must say the waste would upset me. SIL cooked the 5.5kg turkey, with butter and streaky bacon on top. He picked all the left-over meat off the carcass in the evening to put in fridge, and made a stock with onions and veg that very evening. He cooked turkey, leak, cream and ham pie the next day- and the rest was eaten in sandwiches. The stock went into soup, the pie and bolognese yesterday. Meat I picked off the carcass went to the dogs, and all the fatty bits to the birds at the back of the house. Nothing went to waste- and it was all deliciousl.

SIL is a great cook, so I leave him to it when they are here- and become the constant washer upper...

Same here as a rule. He had carved most of it - but there should have been enough left for a pie and soup!

And bits for the dogs. And maybe a curry too!