I figured I better post something about Thanksgiving before Christmas, so here goes. (Also if anyone was reminded to come check out the blog by our Christmas letter, they might be surprised to see no updates! Oops!)
Not much to report for Thanksgiving other than we decided to keep our germs to ourselves and stay home.
All we did for prep work the day before was to make turkey handprint artwork and plan out the cooking times for the oven. Since it was just us, we decided to have a special meal but nothing too over the top. There were 3 kinds of tartlets. Sam made 1 1/2 pie crusts and we halved the recipes for 3 pies. He made pumpkin and pecan and I made this delicious chocolate pie.
Here we are with our various handprint turkeys. My neighbor left the flowers for us and a coworker at the library gave us the small decorative gourds.
Here's my plate. Sam brined an 11-pound turkey and then bought a package of extra legs so that everyone could have a leg. I think we could have used one more side dish! Ha! Even though this made a great big meal and we sat down and had it twice. The sweet potatoes were baked with mini-marshmallows but I scooped mine from the middle since I think they're sweet enough already & of course my favorite Thanksgiving side is corn pudding, the only 'casserole' Sam will eat.
Updated with the actual recipe from my Grandma Doris:
The big drama of the day was that Spark snatched an unattended leftover turkey bone and ate the entire thing and then had to be fed soft food and monitored for the next 72 hours due to the danger of poultry bone shards. He doesn't look like he feels bad at all (photo taken immediately after the thievery):
We watched the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.
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