From Turkey Dinner #2, our actual Thanksgiving dinner, I
learned:
Lessons with a
pleasant surprise
- Roasted Brussels sprouts are easy (much easier than
sautéed, especially when making large amounts) and can be made a day ahead!
Scrumptious with caramelized onions on top.
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| 55 Brussels sprouts, after roasting |
- The pecan pie wins.
It was finished off first. This
is pleasant for those of us who prefer apple pie and pumpkin pie.
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| Clockwise from top left: pumpkin, apple, mincemeat, apple. The pecan pie was not reheated in the oven. |
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| Gone. |
- The holiday dinner conversation is quite amusing and
interesting, now that the children are turning into young adults.
- Teenagers can be enlisted to do the dinner dishes,
especially if pie is withheld until after those dishes are washed.
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| Teens Doing Dishes |
Lessons of a humbling
nature
- Two cups of raw onions results in just ¾ cup of
caramelized onions. I had to make double.
- We are now apostates from the green bean casserole –
those French fried onions from a can just don’t go with the post-heart attack
menu.
- Taylor Swift puts her name on Diet Coke, for which the
cans are slimmer and taller than ordinary-folk soda cans.
- For some people, getting around can be damned painful and
difficult, but they do it anyway. Good for them!
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| Hard to find a parking spot for all these walking implements. My Mom uses hers for extra table space. |
- cooking two Thanksgiving dinners and one Hanukkah dinner (with
three different types of latkes) within the space of ten days is truly
exhausting.
- I have my limits. I
can be provoked to yell at another adult at the top of my lungs, and to let the
sun set on my anger. But I am not
allowed to discuss my mother-in-law on this blog, so that is all I will say
about that.
How about you? Were there any lessons to be learned from your Thanksgiving dinner?
How about you? Were there any lessons to be learned from your Thanksgiving dinner?
6 comments:
We tried a lemon chess pie this year for something new. Delicious! It's in the Betty Crocker red plaid classic.
No lessons, except I think it's good for me to read your blog. It makes me laugh, and I always admire how you manage to turn a phrase, even when you don't write one, but just show a picture!
More blog posts, please!
Holy PIES! That looks like a delicious meal. And what's a family holiday without a little healthy yelling?
Oh those Brussels sprouts look heavenly!
Three dinners and a difficult MIL? Saintly. I bet Santa is making lots of positive marks on his list :-)
Two things I loved about this post and one confession:
The pi pan.
That one of your labels was "anger." (I don't know why that tickled me so much, but it did.)
I have never tried brussels sprouts. Someday I will. Probably.
Oh, your pies are spectacular. We have that pi pan too!
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