Happy Thanksgiving!
In honor of Tom the Turkey, we will not be eating any fowl this year. Really, we don’t eat turkey very much anyways…but now we have a good reason not to. The plan is to have all the food ready to eat by 2:30 this afternoon. That way we can gorge ourselves once in the afternoon, lay around in a gluttonous stupor like slugs (not to imply slugs are gluttonous), and then do it all again this evening.
Instead of Tom, we’ll be eating a big, juicy prime rib (in the oven now, giving off the most delicious smell) and in case that’s not enough we’ll also be dining on honey glazed ham. Also in the oven/stovetop/microwave/refrigerator:
Stuffing (Stove Top, my favorite!)
Candied Yams
Candied Carrots
Mashed Potatoes
Corn
Jello Salad
Crescent Rolls (Pillsberry, my kids insisted)
Fudge
5 assorted Pies (Village Inn, my dad’s gift)
I like to get all my cooking done for the whole entire year in one go, which is why we have 10 pounds of roast baking alongside 8 pounds of ham alsongside enough side dishes to feed the neighborhood. But it’s amazing the creations that can be made with a few simple ingredients….shepherds pie, stew, sandwich meat, pot pie, ham rolls, split pea soup, ham hock stew, etc. etc. My mom isn’t here for this year’s festivities, and I miss her–but I’ll miss her more tomorrow as I try to wrestle all the leftovers into other delicious meals to freeze. She makes the finest soups/stews around.
Wishing everyone a lovely Thanksgiving and a nice loooong nap!
3 Comments
I have always only made roast beef for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I never learned to make turkey and when my sister taught me how to prepare and stuff one last year, I developed an even deeper appreciation for my simpler roast.
“You gotta put hand in where and pull what out?” No thanks.
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving.
Woo, Sheri! Your comment made me laugh out loud! I read somewhere else that a particular blogger won't cook a turkey because she feels it to closely resembles a naked baby! LOL
Oh boy. I made a turkey breast only and it's a lot less intimidating than a whole bird but having roast for Thanksgiving sounds like a great idea to me. I made one last week just for the heck of it and made up some shepherd's pie on Saturday night. It was fabulous.
CP – funny that you mention ham and beef bone leftover ideas because I have a hambone in the freezer that I'm going to use for split pea soup one day next week. Seems like we're on similar wavelengths!
Hope you all had a glorious holiday weekend!
Sheri–amen! I meddled with a whole chicken once and found it highly disturbing. The naturalist enjoyed disecting the innards…I dry heaved my way through and now only buy the chicken cut. I'm such a wimp!
Evie–too bad we don't live closer, we could do all our magic leftover transformations together! I'll wait to make my split pea until I see your recipe…I'm not totally sold on my recipe.
Viva la leftovers!