Confession: ever since I started hosting Christmas, I refuse to cook turkey. I can’t do it. It dries out, it loses all potential flavour and it honestly just disappoints me and probably my guests every time.Now, I am a Good Northern Girl so of course my entire plate gets doused in gravy, but I just can’t justify the time it takes to prepare and cook turkey against how it actually tastes at the end.Exhausting!However, dare I say it, Gordon Ramsay’s secret to keeping turkey moist and flavourful has made me ambitious again. Maybe we can have turkey this year AND it’ll be delicious even before I’ve poured gravy over it?!How to stop turkey from drying outIn his roast turkey recipe, Gordon suggests making a herby butter with these ingredients:375g butter, at room temperature1 tbsp olive oilfinely grated zest and juice of 2 small lemons3