Yesterday was a day of prep work: The (perfectly sized) turkey was brined and is now resting in the basement fridge. The cornbread was procured after making three trips to two grocery stores (but I had to go back to the first store, when they’d replenished their cornbread stock; yes I realize this is something I can make myself). I made the first step of the gravy with the turkey neck and giblets yesterday. The cranberry sauce (round 2, after the first one burned; I really should not be in charge of big complex meals like this) is chilling in the kitchen fridge, along with the beautiful, disaster-free fresh-pumpkin pie my mother and daughter made. Carla is itching to peel potatoes today, a job I will happily relegate to her.
But for now, I am having a quiet moment to sip tea and look over my recipes in hopes that I don’t forget anything. Thankfully, with four helpers on hand, I think we’ll be okay. (We are kind of smushing two turkey recipes together, because my mother thinks that we cannot cook a turkey at 400 degrees despite America’s Test Kitchen’s assurances; we will follow another of ATK’s recipes and start it at 425 for an hour, then turn it down to 325. WE’LL SEE HOW IT GOES.)
I am loving your guesses about yesterday’s kitchen mystery. I wondered, before I posted it, whether it would be a True Mystery or whether it would be easy to decode. The post explaining the full story is half-written but will have to wait until after Thanksgiving. (If you haven’t guessed yet, the Mystery Giveaway runs until tomorrow at midnight Eastern time.)
And thank you to Bibliomama for reminding me that a photo counts as a post.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating, and best wishes for a beautiful day to all those who aren’t. I am so grateful for our little blogging community.
It seems as though I am doing NaBloPoMo this month, which is 30 blog posts in 30 days. (Will I make it??? Only time will tell.) Details at San’s blog here.
Happy Thanksgiving!! I love your blogging voice and your posts are so fun to read. Grateful to have found you! Your photos at the end are wonderful! They perfectly embody the “Thanksgiving” image. And wow that pie looks great. I’m not actually normally a huge pumpkin fan, but I think I might be if I ate that pie.
Oh my goodness. Yum!
I love coming to this space; each post feels like a warm hug. I hope you have a fantastic day.
I’m a HUGE fan of pumpkin pie (probably my fav), and that one looks perfect.
Happy Thanksgiving <3
Happy Thanksgiving! I am grateful for you! xo
Oh nooooo, so sorry to hear about the cranberry crisis, but well done you for having enough for a second go-round. I hope you & your family have a wonderful meal and enjoy your time together. Happy Thanksgiving 🙂
We’re having our own cranberry crisis… I realized this morning that I forgot all about it. So now SOMEONE has to run out to the store- the very thing we’re all trying to avoid on Thanksgiving Day. Well, thankful that there’s a store open!
Happy Thanksgiving!!! Sounds like you have everything under control for a delicious dinner.
Happy T Day!!!
Wow, I am so impressed with all your preparations in advance… I am just going to throw everything together today, but then again, we’re only two people, so I understand that more planning is involved. I bet it’s all going to be delicious!!
Happy Thanksgiving! And I am also very thankful for our little blogging community 🙂
Happy thanksgiving! I am anxious to hear how the turkey-cooking goes. I’m so happy we found each other! I don’t usually use this many exclamation marks!
I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and that Carla excelled at potato peeling. She’s at such a nice age, where the desire to help overlaps with the ability to be genuinely helpful.
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your day was lovely!
Happy Thanksgiving! I’ve really enjoyed reading your posts this month and am grateful for all the extra peeks into your world. Go NaBloPoMo!
Happy Thanksgiving! Everything looks delish.
The food looks so yummy. Hope it was as tasty.