November 17, 2008
scared of turkey? Chris will set you straight!
Let’s face it: my generation of women are hardly the domestic engineers that our mothers were. We’re barely scraping by with a microwave and a take out menu — BUT we know all about social media and text messaging and Flickr. Too bad Flickr can’t make dinner.
This year, Butterball is reaching out to new cooks, people who have never cooked a turkey before, primarily because I we they think that cooking a turkey is scary and overwhelming and something that is best left to our mothers and mothers-in-law.
A couple of you have asked how I landed this gig, and the truth is this: I am exactly the person Butterball is hoping to grab; I’m not a bad cook, but because I am typically jamming my cooking in between eleven million other things, like work and basketball practice, I don’t ever really have time to get comfortable and feel like I really know exactly what I’m doing.
Also, I have a blog where I get to talk to fun people like you! Possibly about turkey! So there you go.
One of my favorite things about blogging is the friends I’ve made on Teh Internets, women who are just like me and would be my ideal next door neighbor except for the pesky fact that they live ACROSS THE COUNTRY and not next door. And one of my favorite friends is Chris, who entertains me via instant message almost daily. Don’t you wish you could IM with Chris?
Well now you can, thanks to Butterball!!!
Tomorrow you can talk live with Chris! About turkey! She’ll be hanging out at Butterball.com with Talk Line Goddess Mary Clingman (you know who Mary is — she was on David Letterman) from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm CST.
Click here to log into the chat, and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Chris and Mary know the answers. I’ll probably stop in too, just to see if I can stump Mary. I’m pretty sure I can’t, but it will be fun to try.
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:43 pm, Tiffany Says:
You rock. Thanks for answering my questions. Yeah, for you and Chris. Sounds like a great gig to land. And you got a great purple peacoat to round out the experience. I’d love to join the chat, but my assistant is in Florida this week and 836 kids still beacon with their need to learn to research and learn to love reading and all the other crazy things I do.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:08 am, Assertagirl Says:
Hmmm, come to think of it, I don’t think I have ever cooked a turkey without the help of my mom. At 32, that’s just ridiculous!
November 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am, Kristin Says:
This confirms it. Chris is a model after all. That photograph is so perfect it looks like it has been airbrushed.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:22 am, Stephanie Says:
Thanks for the turkey support. I have been the official “turkey roaster” of the family for a number of years - they started me early. Roasting a turkey is one of those things, that after your done and the bird is out of the oven you say, “that was not so difficult”. It’s a huge TAH-DAH with such little effort. Roast on!