Thanksgiving Reports?

[christie1111]

I made the artichoke dip and the PSM suggestion of salami etc in puff pastry.

I bought brie and then when I got home realized that I was supposed to get goat cheese instead. I didn't serve it because my Dad and step-mom were 1 hour and 15 minutes late.

That really annoys me. If they didn't think they could be here by 2, tell me and I will shift everything.

But otherwise, all was well.

[kayrharris]

The turkey was delicious and the gravy was perfect!
I looked at several different ways to bake the turkey. I did the brining. The recipe I decided on
said to put the bird breast side down in the roaster. This way all the juices will go into the breast
meat, making it really juicy. It also said to put it in a 400 degree oven for 30 minutes then
reduce the temperature to 325 for the next 2 hours and finally reduce again to 275 for the last
hour of baking. Everyone raved about it.

I found the turkey wings you told me about and had plenty of broth to make the gravy. I'm pretty
good at regular gravy, so I just did what I already knew how to do and it turned out great!

Thanks for the tips.

[kayrharris]

BTW, did you find your roaster?

I hate it when guests show up late. One of my sisters is always late and not just a little late, at least an hour
or more. We no longer give her the correct time to be somewhere....we adjust it by at least an hour and a
half earlier. It's still a toss up as to when she'll actually get there.

[peacock2121]

The girls beat the boys in Cranium.

[ksbirchtree]

Good food was had by all in my family. We congregate at my sisters house, and everyone brings something. I do pies (4 - apple, 2 pumpkin, lemon meringue), rolls, and candied sweet potatoes.

Slept late this morning... I avoid Black Friday like the plague.

The other quilting Christy

[christie1111]

Good food was had by all in my family. We congregate at my sisters house, and everyone brings something. I do pies (4 - apple, 2 pumpkin, lemon meringue), rolls, and candied sweet potatoes.

Slept late this morning... I avoid Black Friday like the plague.

The other quilting Christy

Really cute quilt!

Gift for someone you know?

I am going to work on my autumn leaf quilt Sat and Sun.

Resting and cleaning today.

[silvercamaro]

My Thanksgiving continues over to today.

Yesterday, everybody ate themselves into a coma. Rusty and I taught Isabella to say "Thank yooooooooo!" We all played with Elmo. (He's a Christmas present, but Izzy won't be here for Christmas, and she will get eightybazillion more presents from her other grandmother.)

Today, I took Annie to the vet, as I was worried about her previously broken leg, the bone of which has developed a curve in the wrong direction, and she has been limping a bit on that leg. The vet thinks the bone is strong enough, whatever arc it wishes to follow, but that she might be developing arthritis in her shoulder. That's not a good thing, but it's neither traumatic nor unusual, so I am thankful. Annie got new pills to alleviate the discomfort, and I have Bailey's Irish Creme.

Life is good.

[christie1111]

Life is good.

Yes it is.

Hugs to Annie.

Baileys to SC!

[earendel]

First off, the traditional Thanksgiving breakfast that we have at church went off well as it always does. We have a service followed by hearty, cholesterol-laden foods to hold people until their regular Thanksgiving repasts are served. I am "the egg man" in the little breakfast combo that prepares the food.

As for Thanksgiving itself, there were a couple of miscommunications that led to a less-than-perfect meal, but the food was good anyway. Our turkey was larger than usual because we anticipated more people than usual, and elwing prepared it in her own inimitable fashion. It was moist and delicious. The stuffing (actually it was "dressing" because it wasn't ever inside the bird) was corn bread and sage, just right. Sweet potatoes and green bean casserole were the vegetables du jour (mashed potatoes were on the menu as well but one of the miscommunications resulted in their absence). elwing made homemade rolls and our friends who joined us brought a chocolate-nut pie and banana pudding to accompany our pumpkin pie (made from the innards of our Halloween jack-o'-lantern). Our grandson enjoyed his first "real" Thanksgiving (he was born the day before Thanksgiving last year).

[mrkelley23]

First off, the traditional Thanksgiving breakfast that we have at church went off well as it always does. We have a service followed by hearty, cholesterol-laden foods to hold people until their regular Thanksgiving repasts are served. I am "the egg man" in the little breakfast combo that prepares the food.

As for Thanksgiving itself, there were a couple of miscommunications that led to a less-than-perfect meal, but the food was good anyway. Our turkey was larger than usual because we anticipated more people than usual, and elwing prepared it in her own inimitable fashion. It was moist and delicious. The stuffing (actually it was "dressing" because it wasn't ever inside the bird) was corn bread and sage, just right. Sweet potatoes and green bean casserole were the vegetables du jour (mashed potatoes were on the menu as well but one of the miscommunications resulted in their absence). elwing made homemade rolls and our friends who joined us brought a chocolate-nut pie and banana pudding to accompany our pumpkin pie (made from the innards of our Halloween jack-o'-lantern). Our grandson enjoyed his first "real" Thanksgiving (he was born the day before Thanksgiving last year).

Who's the Walrus?

[kayrharris]

I just made some turkey/rice soup. Man is it good!

[WheresFanny]

I knocked my laptop off the table while vacuuming and it fell onto the floor screen first. The Dyson survived (because it's an Animal, baby!), the laptop? Not so much.

Jason Witten was on my bench and Calvin Johnson was not. Kurt Warner threw 3 INTs.

YAY Thanksgiving!

The End.

[kayrharris]

I knocked my laptop off the table while vacuuming and it fell onto the floor screen first. The Dyson survived (because it's an Animal, baby!), the laptop? Not so much.

Jason Witten was on my bench and Calvin Johnson was not. Kurt Warner threw 3 INTs.

YAY Thanksgiving!

The End.

Yikes! I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope today is a better day.

[littlebeast13]

I knocked my laptop off the table while vacuuming and it fell onto the floor screen first. The Dyson survived (because it's an Animal, baby!), the laptop? Not so much.

Jason Witten was on my bench and Calvin Johnson was not. Kurt Warner threw 3 INTs.

YAY Thanksgiving!

The End.

Yikes! I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope today is a better day.

Another strike against the laptop.

I doubt I would knock my computer off the desk.....

lb13

[WheresFanny]

I knocked my laptop off the table while vacuuming and it fell onto the floor screen first. The Dyson survived (because it's an Animal, baby!), the laptop? Not so much.

Jason Witten was on my bench and Calvin Johnson was not. Kurt Warner threw 3 INTs.

YAY Thanksgiving!

The End.

Yikes! I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope today is a better day.

Wait, I knew I was forgetting something.....

The Nuggets lost in the final 20 seconds of their game.

Well, I guess all's well that ends well. Ha!

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

We had a really nice Thanksgiving.

Everyone loved the cheese platter. It sort of keeps people around the kitchen and makes them talk. After people ate cheese, they played Rock Band and Guitar Hero. It was all really low key, but everyone seemed to have fun.

The turkey was done early, but that's OK. Our garbage disposal sprung a leak (there is actually a hole in the metal on the side) and we couldn't use that side of the sink, so we duct taped a big black X across that side of the sink so nobody would use it. I have to go out and buy a new disposal this afternoon. The candle in my kitchen leaked all over my favorite cranberry table cloth. I scraped the wax off, but I think that it's unsalvageable.

After dinner Jeff's mom sat on Zap's spot on the couch and he kept giving the cute sad puppy look, but she refused to get up. Eventually she had to go the bathroom and he reclaimed his spot and didn't get up for the rest of the evening.

We really don't have a lot of leftovers, which is nice.

[peacock2121]

I knocked my laptop off the table while vacuuming and it fell onto the floor screen first. The Dyson survived (because it's an Animal, baby!), the laptop? Not so much.

Jason Witten was on my bench and Calvin Johnson was not. Kurt Warner threw 3 INTs.

YAY Thanksgiving!

The End.

Dysons rock!

[peacock2121]

We had a really nice Thanksgiving.

Everyone loved the cheese platter. It sort of keeps people around the kitchen and makes them talk. After people ate cheese, they played Rock Band and Guitar Hero. It was all really low key, but everyone seemed to have fun.

The turkey was done early, but that's OK. Our garbage disposal sprung a leak (there is actually a hole in the metal on the side) and we couldn't use that side of the sink, so we duct taped a big black X across that side of the sink so nobody would use it. I have to go out and buy a new disposal this afternoon. The candle in my kitchen leaked all over my favorite cranberry table cloth. I scraped the wax off, but I think that it's unsalvageable.

After dinner Jeff's mom sat on Zap's spot on the couch and he kept giving the cute sad puppy look, but she refused to get up. Eventually she had to go the bathroom and he reclaimed his spot and didn't get up for the rest of the evening.

We really don't have a lot of leftovers, which is nice.

Unusual interpretation of that result.

[ulysses5019]

Only two stops this year. My sister for the family gathering. Ham and turkey and the fixin's were consumed in mass quantities. I then drove to a friend's gathering. They had two turkeys, one brined the other not. I did a taste test. The brined one was far moister than the one that the other. But I ended up having salad and pumpkin pie. And some nice chardonnay.

[earendel]

The candle in my kitchen leaked all over my favorite cranberry table cloth. I scraped the wax off, but I think that it's unsalvageable.

Maybe not - we have problems with candles dripping on altar cloths and such at church and I know there's a way to use a steam iron to melt the wax out of the fabric. I'll ask elwing for more details or maybe someone here will know about it.

[christie1111]

An iron and paper towels. And keep doing it until all wax is out.

And then if there is any color remaining from the candle, dry cleaners.

[earendel]

An iron and paper towels. And keep doing it until all wax is out.

And then if there is any color remaining from the candle, dry cleaners.

Yep, I knew someone would know the trick.

[BackInTex]

I made the cornbread dressing, pecan pie (with my son's help), and cooked the turkey. It was really moist this year as I injected butter and lemon juice into the breast and put butter beneath the skin over the breast. I might try that cooking it upside down thing mentioned by Kay. I wonder why they always say to cook it breast side up? Seems logical to put the breast down. Hmmm....

We made all the kids prepare one dish.
Emily made the pumpkin pie.
Caroline made the sweet potato casserole.
Katie was going to make the broccoli rice casserole, but Grandma had already bought the stuff for it. We couldn't convince her to make the brussel sprouts and don't trust her with the mashed potatoes. So she got off filling the glasses with ice.

We had a total of five pies: Pumpkin, Pecan, Lemon-Buttermilk, Apple, and Slap-yo-mama chocolate (runner up on GMA this year).

Everyone was on time, but the rolls took 3 times the expected time to cook because they (my wife and b-i-l) didn't understand why I was putting them on a baking tray. "Just leave them in the foil container". O.K. These were the cut dough bought from Texas Road House as a fundraiser for the elementary school. The folil container was a deep (3-in) pan. I knew it wasn't a good idea to cook them in it, but didn't want to argue.

Everything was great but the ass-whooping Texas put on my Aggies. I wasn't expecting a win, in fact I expected the ass-whooping, but was hoping for a respectable showing. Didn't happen.

[lilclyde54]

We went to the youngest son of The Baboo's for the feast. As my mother predicted on Wednesday when they got together to make their football picks, The Baboo got a phone call about 7 AM Thanksgiving morning with the message "Mom, we may have a problem". His ham was too big for the pan he planned to cook it in. What he didn't take into consideration when asking The Baboo's advice was that she came within a hair of burning up my brother's kitchen this summer while she was trying to cook a big ham for our fourth of july family celebration. Once he went and bought an oversized pan, the rest of Thanksgiving went wonderfully.

[ksbirchtree]

Really cute quilt!

Gift for someone you know?

I am going to work on my autumn leaf quilt Sat and Sun.

Resting and cleaning today.

Gift for a great niece who collects elephants things of all shapes and sizes.