I always recommend, ‘Taste of Home’ for recipes and how-to’s for novice cooks. You CANNOT go wrong when a Midwest Mom or Grandma is at the helm!
Our Thanksgiving this year is going to suck - my StepDad is in the final stage of Pancreatic Cancer, though he may still surprise us, so no BIG Family Festivities this year.
One year Beau and I were at an organic wool farm (he was courting me at the time; he doesn’t put up with such foolishness now!) learning to card and spin wool and they also sold home-raised, plucked and frozen roasting hens. We bought one that ended up costing us $37!
THIRTY-SEVEN DOLLARS for a roasting hen? (In it’s defense, it WAS 8 pounds; it was HUGE!)
I treated that thing as if it were an expensive Truffle when I was preparing it. We STILL have the Wish-Bone and haven’t pulled it apart, yet.
We still laugh about that $37 dollar CHICKEN quite often! :)
LOL!
Yes, Taste of Home is great - I hadn’t heard of it until my husband’s grandmother gifted me with all of her old copies about 15 years ago; and then I found them online. Usually very reliable recipes.