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geekchickWegmans didn't kill me; of course it probably helps that we went at 10:30 last night when most other folks had gone at 3:30 when they left the office. Naturally there's still stuff I've found we need, so I have to go back out. For the moment, I'm steeling myself for the required trip to the store for tin foil and beverages by caffeinating myself and catching up on LJ while waiting for my cast iron cornbread pan to season.
Since there's only three of us and the smallest turkey available was 14 lbs, we decided to roast a chicken instead. Much smaller, and I can make soup out of anything left. We're having roast chicken and roasted root vegetables (a mix of carrots, turnips, parsnips, and pearl onions), whipped [sweet|white] potatoes (solving the problem of my insistence on sweet potatoes and C.'s equally strong insistence on not, we'll just have some of each), sauteed green beans and grape tomatoes, cranberry sauce, and C.'s stuffing concoction which appears to involve bacon and turkey sausage somehow. If I feel particularly industrious, I'll make the baked acorn squash stuffed with apples and walnuts I made a few years ago, but I think we're going to have way more than enough food without it and may just make it over the weekend. I decided to not argue in favor of my preferred dessert and we're having chocolate cake rather than pumpkin anything, which C. doesn't care for. (I'm making up for it by having a pumpkin chocolate chip muffin for breakfast.)
[Edit: I just realized that some friends who wouldn't have seen the original post might freak out over the reference below; just to be clear, the K. I mention is not our friend who moved to the wilds of New York, it's someone I worked with.]
Yesterday I was completely not in the mood to have company today, but I've gotten over that. I think it was related to sadness over K.'s unexpected death on Monday plus the whole dark and rainy thing; I was totally uninterested in interacting with anyone at all. Feeling better today though, and almost wishing I could recreate the first Thanksgiving dinner I cooked all on my own; nothing like cooking your first turkey for fifteen people. I had my housemates and my coworkers and friends over and made a boatload of food and the house was filled for hours; it was probably my best Thanksgiving since moving out of my parents' house. Oddly, that first turkey was the only one that's ever come out absolutely perfectly. The last one I made a few years ago was a disaster; dry on top, undercooked on the bottom (even after spending a lot longer in the oven than it should've needed). I chalk that one up to the cooking method or perhaps the crappy oven we had with wild temperature fluctuations. Either way, not what I wanted to serve my guests and quite embarrassing. Luckily we had plenty of sides and nobody went hungry so far as I know.
Okay, time to turn off the oven and go armor myself for the grocery store.
Since there's only three of us and the smallest turkey available was 14 lbs, we decided to roast a chicken instead. Much smaller, and I can make soup out of anything left. We're having roast chicken and roasted root vegetables (a mix of carrots, turnips, parsnips, and pearl onions), whipped [sweet|white] potatoes (solving the problem of my insistence on sweet potatoes and C.'s equally strong insistence on not, we'll just have some of each), sauteed green beans and grape tomatoes, cranberry sauce, and C.'s stuffing concoction which appears to involve bacon and turkey sausage somehow. If I feel particularly industrious, I'll make the baked acorn squash stuffed with apples and walnuts I made a few years ago, but I think we're going to have way more than enough food without it and may just make it over the weekend. I decided to not argue in favor of my preferred dessert and we're having chocolate cake rather than pumpkin anything, which C. doesn't care for. (I'm making up for it by having a pumpkin chocolate chip muffin for breakfast.)
[Edit: I just realized that some friends who wouldn't have seen the original post might freak out over the reference below; just to be clear, the K. I mention is not our friend who moved to the wilds of New York, it's someone I worked with.]
Yesterday I was completely not in the mood to have company today, but I've gotten over that. I think it was related to sadness over K.'s unexpected death on Monday plus the whole dark and rainy thing; I was totally uninterested in interacting with anyone at all. Feeling better today though, and almost wishing I could recreate the first Thanksgiving dinner I cooked all on my own; nothing like cooking your first turkey for fifteen people. I had my housemates and my coworkers and friends over and made a boatload of food and the house was filled for hours; it was probably my best Thanksgiving since moving out of my parents' house. Oddly, that first turkey was the only one that's ever come out absolutely perfectly. The last one I made a few years ago was a disaster; dry on top, undercooked on the bottom (even after spending a lot longer in the oven than it should've needed). I chalk that one up to the cooking method or perhaps the crappy oven we had with wild temperature fluctuations. Either way, not what I wanted to serve my guests and quite embarrassing. Luckily we had plenty of sides and nobody went hungry so far as I know.
Okay, time to turn off the oven and go armor myself for the grocery store.
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Date: 2004-11-25 08:28 am (UTC)Roast chicken sounds good. When we still want turkey with only 2 or 3 of us, we usually get just a turkey breast. Avoids the dark meat that Toni doesn't like anyway.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
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Date: 2004-11-25 08:32 am (UTC)The cat is tapping at my arm to remind me that it's actually four of us at the table today: three humans and the cat.
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Date: 2004-11-25 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-25 09:46 am (UTC)Spoiled? No, not at all. *grin*
Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
Date: 2004-11-25 09:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-25 11:11 am (UTC)Agreed with you about the absolute necessity of sweet potatoes... I'm currently cooking these for a "souffle" that's my grandmother's recipe... topped with browned marshmallows and pecans. It could almost be a dessert instead of a vegetable...
And stuffing that includes meat... just seems wrong, somehow ;). Stuffing is that which accompanies the meat, IMO...
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Date: 2004-11-25 11:21 am (UTC)The big debate in our house is whether the bird gets stuffed while cooking or if it's cooked separately. I fall into the latter camp, myself.
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Date: 2004-11-25 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-25 12:32 pm (UTC)She will also admit being somehow both pleased and amused that your sweet potatoes will have the expected (and technically non-vegetarian) marshmallows.
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Date: 2004-11-25 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-25 01:36 pm (UTC)