SPT

SPT - because of a blogger month - in the kitchen edition

thanksgiving has always been a holiday that i try to do everything a little over the top. i don't make anything that isn't from scratch, with exception to the pie crust, they're just such a pain! i've collected the best recipes from sister-in-laws and friends and i love that it's such a fun mix of everything yummy. it has turned out to be one of my favorite holidays and i don't even like turkey! which brings me to the SPT part of this post. i love pioneer woman's cooking blog, her regular blog is fun too but the cooking is so great, step by step photographs and funny bits of info all along the way. she makes it easy to try everything she does. so, last year when she started working on some thanksgiving recipes, i knew i would have to try a few. she made brining a turkey look like fun and relatively easy and she swore that it made a huge difference with the taste of the turkey. and since the turkey itself is not the part i enjoy i figured i would give it a try. it was fun - mostly because i was at ann's house and we laughed a lot - and it wasn't hard at all, but, i just don't know that it made that big of a difference in the taste, it was pretty much still boring turkey taste. i will brine my turkey again this year, but i'm going to try a different brine recipe to see if it changes anything. so because of a blogger, i brined a turkey and i LOVE pioneer woman! so much, that some girlfriends and i started our own cooking blog - blogger mom's cook - and we do cook, lots of good stuff, so check it out and tell us what you think.