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If do you choose to cook a brined turkey, do it yourself — wet or dry — rather than buying a “self-basting” or already-brined turkey, so you don’t accidentally end up with a salt bomb.

If you do choose to cook a brined turkey, do it yourself — wet or dry — rather than buying a “self-basting” or already-brined turkeyso you don’t accidentally end up with a salt bomb.

After self-basting in bacon fat, the turkey skin — arguably the best part of the turkey — gets a little flabby.

Best order ahead and save yourself from the self-basting humiliation of roasting in the ovenlike dining room during the last days of summer.

In one starter, Medjool dates are stuffed with lemon-infused ricotta and an almond, wrapped in lace fat — the translucent membrane used as sausage casing — and then roasted, creating a self-basting mechanism that holds in moisture even as it helps the dish retain its shape.