Happy Thanksgiving

To you and yours!  Hope everyone had a wonderful day with family and friends.

I cook a feast two times out of the year.  Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Includes breakfast and dinner.

Breakfast Menu

Dutch Babies with bacon or sausage (or both)

Dinner

Ham or Turkey, stuffing/dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, roles, dessert

Today I started cooking around 9an (woke up really late) and finished right around 5pm.  I had a good time but my feet are killing me!

DL helped with the eggs for the Dutch babies, he cracked all 6 and only got a small bit of shell.

Dinner this year was a bunch of firsts. Brining the turkey, sausage dressing, new mashed potato recipe.

The turkey was in brine for about 24 hrs and let me tell you – it is fabulous!  I will be brining birds from here on.  The sausage dressing is good but just a tad to spicy for me.  I will use the recipe again but maybe with plain country sausage.  The mashed potatoes had mozzarella & parmesan cheese with lots of bacon topped with bread crumbs and more parmesan and baked for 25 min. mmm!

Dinner was almost anti-climatic as cooking dinner was an all day event while the sit down dinner was over in about 15 min!  Still worth every hr, min, & second I spent in the kitchen today.  Everyone loved dinner and hopefully I wont have to cook again until Sun when Im bringing potatoes for the inlaws feast.

Well, Im off to rest and massage my feet and then off to a good night’s rest.  No 4am shopping for me – checked and there just isnt anything we have to have from the Black Friday sales.