martha stewart, eat your heart out

I didn't manage to catch anything hunting this week, but I did manage to serve my family Thanksgiving dinner without burning the house down or turning the turkey black. However, unlike Martha, I didn't raise my own pedigreed turkey in my backyard, nor did I grow any of the corn, potatoes, squash, beans and pumkins in my blue ribon garden...

But I did cook. In our family, we cook all the time. It's like, "why don't you come over for dinner, are you hungry?" "No?" "Well, come over anyway, you might get hungry later; I feel like cooking a big meal."

So, Thanksgiving in our family is a once a year love affair with food. The table, piled high with food, tantalizes and entices you its the rich aromas; the temptation of eating too much is impossible to resist. But I'm not complaining.

This year, we had green bean casserole, broccoli bake, scalloped corn, potatoes, squash, and of course, turkey and dressing. And pumkin and pecan pies for dessert (which we couldn't even eat right away - we were too full).

The turkey itself was heavenly. I cooked it in the roaster I got from Becky, and it came out sooo juicy and tender that the legs and wings fell off when I lifted it out. And it was sooo yummy; I've definately converted to cooking the turky in the roaster from now on. :)

So I was proud of myself, it was the first turkey I made (well, cooked I'm not God, I didn't MAKE the turkey...) Anyway, everything worked out, and it didn't explode or turn black, or get dried out. The boiler didn't belch out any putrid smoke, and I'm glad, although it makes the blog entry a tad more boring.

My friend Suz described Thanksgiving dinner as an "epicurean delight"; which, since I had never heard the word before, I had to look up. Upon discovering in my thesaurus, that the word fell in with the likes of words like voluptuous, liscentiousness, indulged and pampered. I realized that Thanksgiving Dinner is indeed an epicurean delight. Why? Because the food is soo dang good you feel like eating even when you aren't hungry anymore (as long as its not a green jello mold).

Not to say my cooking is anything fantastic; our family just has awesome recipies. And my sister made the scalloped corn, broccoli bake, and green bean casserole, and cooked the squash and potatoes. I made the desserts, dinner rolls, dressing/stuffing (whatever you call it); then crammed the dressing into an 18 lb turkey, threw some browning sauce on it, and then plopped it in the roaster. Is that all I did? Wow, I felt busier. Well, there are a TON of dishes to do when you make a big meal like that; that's the only down side to having a feast (we don't own a dishwasher - I am the dishwasher, lol).

And so, I had a great Thanksgiving, although we celebrated 2 days later than most people. :P And that being said, if I didn't say "Happy Thanksgiving" to y'all, then I shall say it now, so you won't think you've been neglegted. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!! :)