Today: All-day potluck Thanksgiving meal with friends.
Tomorrow: My birthday! To celebrate, I will not be leaving the house all day.
Saturday: Day off with Jim nomming on Thanksgiving leftovers :)
Sunday: Mentally prepare myself for the last leg of this semester …
To those celebrating the holiday – Happy Thanksgiving!!
[via]
I am really excited about this year’s Thanksgiving.
We won’t be flying home to spend it with family (which is totally okay with me because this is happening), but Jim and I have done the next-best thing and invited a bunch of fellow graduate students and friends over to our little apartment to celebrate!
Today we will be hosting a pot luck Thanksgiving where everyone brings a typical dish from home. This is going to be pretty awesome because our friends come from cultures and countries all over the world, so I’m looking forward to having curried beef and arroz con gandules flanking our 20-pound turkey on the kitchen table!
I don’t know if I’ll have my new camera up and running by then, but I’ll try and grab a few shots for you guys.
Enjoy the day!
Today – It’s all about the pumpkin pie.
Turkey is good, stuffing kinda grosses me out (bread + moisture of any kind = nasty), I don’t touch the cranberry sauce and I enjoy my sweet potatoes with horseradish sauce (don’t hate, it’s awesome). But when it comes time for dessert …
[Pie Illustration by Jessa ZG]
I can’t wait to stuff myself with at least 3 slices covered with whipped cream to the point where you aren’t even sure there’s pie underneath – It’s Thanksgiving – Indulge a little!
My Thanksgiving adventure actually started back in October, if you recall – But here’s what I’ll be up to for the rest of the week:
Woot! That’s right my friends – I get to have 3, count ‘em, 3 Thanksgiving dinners this year! You know you’re jealous.
A quick interjection to announce another opportunity to win goodies from No Mints!
Pop on over to Green Eyed Monster to leave a quick comment for a chance to win one of my Embroidered 3-Leaf Mini Garlands!
Ash and Kimmy of Green Eyed bring you the latest in DIY fashion, sustainable living and handmade goodness for an enviable life! All I can say is that they will promptly be added to my regular blog reading list!
So I’m writing this post from my couch, relaxing after the family has gone and enjoying my tryptophan coma (while waiting for Mad Men to come on at 10 …).
Today went swimmingly!! We really couldn’t have asked for a better first Thanksgiving together and we pulled it off quite well.
Jim and I got up ate a slice of pumpkin bread I made the day before (using the same recipe for the Pumpkin Muffins, but you just pour the mixture in a loaf pan and bake for about an hour and a half) with cream cheese then made a trip to the Farmer’s Market and the grocery store for some ingredients. We then came back, cleaned the turkey, got the stuffing going (we decided to do homemade stuffing, we made our own toasted bread cubes and everything!) and prepped the bird for the oven. Once we popped it in, Jim’s family had all arrived and we decided to go for a walk around town while things cooked. It was a beautiful day and I took some lovely autumn shots while we meandered the streets to the tow path (photos of this tomorrow). By the time we got back, the turkey was ready and we finished up a couple last side dishes and all sat down to eat.
The turkey was AMAZING – I have to give my Mom credit though, because she told me her secret to getting a moist bird without basting: Cut a piece of cheesecloth large enough to cover the turkey, drench it in olive oil and lay it over the bird. You don’t have to worry about basting or covering it with tin foil. The oiled cloth acts to keep the juices in and you can just let it cook away until it’s time to come out. The skin came out perfectly crispy as well!
Getting in the Thanksgiving mood with some pumpkins
Farmer's Market
Sauteing celery and onions for the stuffing
Our turkey is almost ready to go in!
:: Fingers Crossed ::
It came out perfectly!! (Note the oiled cheesecloth - Seriously, you need to try it)
Carving
Thanksgiving dinner!! Modest, but delicious (and excuse the awful flash photography)
And now we have some tasty Thankgiving leftovers for lunches this week – Mmmm …
Tune in tomorrow for more photos – I took some great pictures of doorsteps and homes that are beautifully-decorated for fall!
