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Basic turkey cooking tips

Quick ReadAre you afraid of cooking that huge turkey? Here are three basic tips to get you through Thanksgiving day.

Are you afraid of your turkey? Here are

Photo credit: AP | Are you afraid of your turkey? Here are basic tips to get you through Thanksgiving day.

Hug your turkey. It may sound a little weird, but Dorothy Jones of the Butterball Turkey Talk Line thinks that may be the first step particularly nervous cooks need to make Thanksgiving morning.

Taking a moment to embrace the bird that looks so intimidating in the refrigerator could calm them down before they start to cook.

"Give it a nice, big hug," she says, "when it's still wrapped...

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