Happy Thanksgiving to all! We wish we could have spent the time with our families, but since we couldn’t, we were with the next best thing—our friends here!
We had quite the feast—if possible, I think we had more food than our “mini-Thanksgiving” when dad and Lin were here!!! Unfortunately, most of the stuff I was making was last minute, so I had pretty much all day to do nothing! I did, however, make two things ahead of time.
So, 3:30 rolls around and I start preparing. Everything was going smoothly and on schedule, but it felt like I was forgetting something. I had put all the ingredients on the table so I knew I wasn’t forgetting anything (or so I thought). So 5:00 comes and everything is pretty much done except the stuffing, gravy, and corn. We all sat down to eat and everything was soooo good and there was soooo much…and we were all just making pigs of ourselves…and just about the time we were all finished, I said “OH MY GOD! I forgot two things!” I had forgotten the stuff I made ahead of time (and were in the refrigerator)—the pistachio jello salad and the deviled eggs (both things, ironically, that I have never before made—EVER!!). So, everyone then had to have more food… (I had to force them, you see… Yeah, right!)
We had TONS of leftovers (which is what I wanted)…I did about 8-10# of potatoes and one of those industrial-sized cans of green beans from Sams. (I also wanted to be able to send home leftovers!) It was all heavenly…
Our final menu:
- deep-fried turkey injected with creole butter and rubbed with creole seasoned salt
- mashed potatoes with loads of butter and sour cream
- green bean casserole
- candied yams with walnuts and marshmallows
- corn bread muffins
- stuffing (boxed, but altered with onions and celery)
- corn
- pistachio jello salad
- deviled eggs
- homemade macaroni and cheese (from Ursula)
- homemade white chocolate chip/macademia nut cookies AND chocolate chocolate chip/walnut cookies (from Cindy)
- two different ice creams (from Cindy, which we never even opened because we were so stuffed)
- pumpkin pie (from Ursula, which we never even cut into because we were so stuffed)
All this for six people and one child. 🙂 Like I said, leftovers.