Thursday Ma came with Bill and Uncle Dave. We had a cured and smoked turkey, a traditional turkey and a ham. We had spuds, both mashed and sweet, squash, stuffing from a box, green bean casserole and sweet corn. A veggie snack tray with spinach dip, cheese and cracker trays with smoked cheddar, baby Swiss and havarti, candy, butterfluff rolls, 2 pumpkin pies, 1 Dutch apple and strawberry cheesecake (from a box). The other pies were baked from frozen, I made the trays with Tessa, Ma the casserole, squash was frozen, sweet potatoes were canned topped with marshmallows and the mashed potatoes were from a recipe I got off of Good Eats on food network. Yay Alton! They were a combo of 2 to 1 whites and reds with butter and this awesome milk-garlic stuff. (He uses heavy cream and stuff, I just used milk and it was fine, simmered with lots of garlic cloves while the potatoes cooked.) My god were they good! Then we watched Charlie and the chocolate factory. Oh, and Pepsi and mountain dew.
Friday Alice and Larry came over at five and we had dinner again! Without the cheese tray though; Chantz dumped it on the floor. Alice ate like it was her last meal- on the road they eat fast food, gas station food, and at a smorgasborg when they hit Conroe (sp). She was excited a bit. Chantz put a candle in her pumpkin pie; the 25th was her birthday. 39 again; and again, and again and again... Chantz doesn't know how old his mother is! He couldn't remember it was the 25th. Him and Larry just remember it is sometimes on Thanksgiving. Nice, huh?
Friday Tessa went to Pizza Hut with her friend and then she and Austin went to the light parade and roller skating! She spent the night at her friends and came home late Saturday night! She has fun...
Wednesday we had pizza because someone forgot to buy ANYTHING for dinner. We has all that food and not a damn thing we could eat!!
3 comments:
Holy crap - that's a lot of food!
Evil Alton Brown, you're just perpetuating his bid to take over the world I hope you know. (All our Thanksgiving food was from his recipes too - darn it.)
Sounds like a yummy Thanksgiving!
It sounds like it, Fred, but they were small turkeys (about 10 lbs each) and a small ham that was mostly bone.
Yeah, Katy, I saw at the website that Alton has a recipe for making a turkey brine. Maybe next year! My inlaws just got their cured turkey from a local meat store, which, btw, they used to own. It was very yummy.
All the pie is now officially gone. I may cry.
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