This year (for the first time) I'm going to try my hand at *drumroll please* THE BIRD. I can cook a decent meal (nobody has died from my cooking); but I have yet to create the bird. I want to get to the point where I'm trading recipies and discussing gravy.
Each year, I promise that I'm going to do the turkey, but it never happens. My mom will always wake up at the crack of dawn and hijack the kitchen. By the time I get in there at 8:30AM, all the real work has been done. Grrr! Not this time. I have to get "domesticated" in some form eventually...might as well start with Thanksgiving.
Coming soon to a table near you:

"Product of a 'house-broken' woman"