Every year on of my co-workers, Cam, puts on a Thanksgiving party for the Biology department. This year I was asked to bring the turkey, so I decided to try the Vons 2-Hour Turkey.
It was really, really quick and easy. You just pre-heat the oven to 475, rub down the defrosted turkey with olive oil and sprinkle it with salt and pepper. Then in 2 hours or less you'll have a done bird.
It smoked up the house pretty good, but it smelled wonderful while it was cooking. I pulled it out after 2 hours and made some gravy, then I wrapped it up in foil and took it in to work.
I only had a couple bites of it, but I thought it was disgusting. It had a weird, bitter, burnt olive oil taste. So I decided that I'll be making a turkey the old-fashioned way for the actual Thanksgiving day.
But here's a picture of Matt carving it. Everyone else loved it.
Cam's work-study students and other members of the department, brought all kinds of wonderful food from all over the world.
They also made a screen for a slideshow of pictures of previous Thanksgiving parties and someone wrote Happy Thanksgiving beautifully on the board.
And just because my building is going to be torn down soon (after the new one is built) I thought I'd put up a picture of my cold, cement, prison-looking Biology building. It's ugly but it's been my workplace for the last 10 years.
