So, as you likely noticed, I didn’t write yesterday, though I had a supremely eventful day.
It was the first time that I invited a crowd to my home for a Thanksgiving Feast.
We had 18 or so people, and it was a lot of fun. I got up at 6:30 and commenced with preparations – a shower and then onto cooking. By 9am the turkey was in the oven, and surprisingly the morning was relatively passive. (including the couple times we tripped the breaker for the circuit we were cooking on.) Also, Jason Bowes helped out with miscellaneous preparations, and by around 1:30 or 2, the first guest had arrived.
By 2:40, most all the attendees were packed into my living room, and everyone was either socializing, or busy trying to finalize the cooking. With the process of trying to cook everything to finish right at 3pm, it created a creshendo of energy as items needed to get in and out of the oven, in and out of boiling water and so forth. I was trying to orchestrate the chaos of people who didn’t know my house and at the same time cut a 20 pound turkey. It all worked out though. We had SO much food.
When it was all said and done, I think we had the following:
Main dishes:
Side Dishes:
Snack foods:
drinks
desserts
…and probably a few more things.
after everyone was stuffed and we had socialized for some time, we eventually watched the Run, Fatboy, Run movie – it was a good one about a gent who was pushing through walls in his life.
would I do it again? sure thing. Especially for heather. would I plan a little bit more? Maybe only to get more than 4 hours of sleep the night before.
we’ll see if we do it again at christmas-time…