Easy steps to cooking your Christmas turkey!  Here are the basics you’ll need to know to get your dinner started with easy to follow steps.

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

2.  Remove turkey from its wrapping and remove neck and giblets from inside the cavity. Set aside to make gravy later (see Related eHows).

3.  Rinse turkey inside and out with cold water. Pat dry with paper towels.

4.  Put oven rack on lowest level of oven.

5.  Place turkey, breast side up, on a roasting rack in a roasting pan.

6.  Rub the outside of the turkey with olive oil.

7.  Salt and pepper the turkey’s body and cavity.

8.  Roast turkey about 3 hours, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the thigh registers 175 to 180 degrees F.

Thanks to our friends from EHow for the recipe!