The Topic asks: How do you prepare a Thanksgiving turkey?

Quayde Gill, son of Brent and Emily Gill “Buy a big turkey, like a 50 pound one. You have to put a bunch of seasonings on it ... oh, and a little lemon juice too. Then you cook it for about 15 minutes with your stove on about 50 degrees. But you can’t take it out and eat it until the turkey beeps. That’s how you know when it’s done.”
Quayde Gill, son of Brent and Emily Gill “Buy a big turkey, like a 50 pound one. You have to put a bunch of seasonings on it ... oh, and a little lemon juice too. Then you cook it for about 15 minutes with your stove on about 50 degrees. But you can’t take it out and eat it until the turkey beeps. That’s how you know when it’s done.”

With the Thanksgiving holiday just a week away, the staff here at the Timber Lake Topic held its annual meeting to plan the company Thanksgiving dinner.

As we ran down the checklist of items we’re going to need for a bountiful feast, reporter and publisher emeritus Kathy let out a gasp. “Where’s the recipe for the turkey?”

Sure enough, our awardwinning recipe for roast turkey was missing. In hindsig…