Herb Roasted Turkey

16 lbs turkey

1/2 cup of olive oil with garlic or plain

1 juice from 1 lemon

1/2 cup minced fresh parsley

1/4 cup minced rosemary

1/4 cup minced thyme

10 fresh sage leaves

1 Tbls salt

1 Tbls pepper

2 medium onions quartered

Chicken stock

Mix all above into a paste, rub all over thawed turkey, under the skin and on top and bottom the night before you are to cook the turkey. Stuff the cavity with the onions.

Day to cook turkey, take the turkey out at room temperature for 1 hour.

pour some chicken stock in the bottom of the pan

preheat oven to 425 degrees

Put turkey in the oven uncovered for 1 hour.

Decrease temperature to 300 degrees and cover turkey.

Baste the turkey every hour.

Cook until internal temperature is 165.

This 16 lbs turkey: i took out of refrigerator at 8am to get room temperature,

I put in oven at 9am at 425 uncovered

at 10am i turned temp to 300 and covered.

by 12 noon it was done.

I turned oven to warm until 1:30, kept covered temp 170

I then took the turkey out of the oven and sat on top of the stove covered for 1 hour until 2:30.

Carved the turkey at 2:30. Yum.