hosting my first Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Yesterday, we had a great time. I hosted my first Thanksgiving!
I had worked the night shift Wednesday night and luckily, gotten a couple hours of sleep. I rushed home by 7:45am, took a quick shower, and started cooking. I made most of the same things as last year since they turned out well. I popped the green onion cheese puffs I had prepared the day before into the oven, while I started on the roasted green beans with walnuts. By the time the cheese puffs were ready to come out, the green beans were ready to go in. I was running ahead of schedule, so I decided to go ahead and make my favorite walnut and pumpkin bread, even though I had thought against it before since we were going to have way too much food.
Davey came over at around 11am with alllll the equipment for the turkey, and an organically raised bird (whatever that means) from Whole Foods. I was his sous chef for the rest of the day, as we cleaned the turkey, picked out the gross parts, squeezed in sage butter underneath the skin (a harder process than you'd think!), stuffed the empty inside with onions and parsley, lined the pan with potatoes and onions, salted/peppered, and finally stuck the whole thing into the oven. We basted with maple syrup and water every TWENTY minutes. Halfway through, we put on a lil bacon hat and wrapped the legs with foil.
Davey brought over this game he discovered in New Zealand called Hive. It's a two-player game so we played this for like THREE HOURS, while the turkey was baking. I lost all but two times, but I'm addicted! I want this game... for Christmas, please? It's a combination of chess and dominoes, sort of.
I had just enough time to finish my broccoli with gruyere cheese, by the time everyone else showed up around 4pm, which included Armand, his cousin Rob, and our friend Phil.
Here's a picture of our turkey, with its bacon hat and all:
we thought that next time, we should put more bacon on, as it sort of became crisp and candied...
A couple of my favorite dishes from 2007: Armand made the best pumpkin pie I've ever had. I think his secret ingredient was ginger and nutmeg. I don't know how he did it but it was really good!
I love Trader Joe's spinach and artichoke dip. It comes frozen and all you need to do is microwave it. This was my breakfast and lunch, while we were making all the food.
After dinner, we had warm apple cider and played more games. We started out with Bohnanza, the bean game, which is also one of my favorites. Then went to Jenga, and then ended with Hive again.
I'll write another post of all the things that I'm thankful for this year... I woke up at 2:30pm today!!! That's how exhausted I've been, doing this night float rotation. I don't think I've really slept more than 3-4 hours in a row during the past 2 weeks, until last night! Plus, I get to sleep in again tomorrow, since I'm not working until tomorrow night. Yay!
Yesterday, we had a great time. I hosted my first Thanksgiving!
I had worked the night shift Wednesday night and luckily, gotten a couple hours of sleep. I rushed home by 7:45am, took a quick shower, and started cooking. I made most of the same things as last year since they turned out well. I popped the green onion cheese puffs I had prepared the day before into the oven, while I started on the roasted green beans with walnuts. By the time the cheese puffs were ready to come out, the green beans were ready to go in. I was running ahead of schedule, so I decided to go ahead and make my favorite walnut and pumpkin bread, even though I had thought against it before since we were going to have way too much food.
Davey came over at around 11am with alllll the equipment for the turkey, and an organically raised bird (whatever that means) from Whole Foods. I was his sous chef for the rest of the day, as we cleaned the turkey, picked out the gross parts, squeezed in sage butter underneath the skin (a harder process than you'd think!), stuffed the empty inside with onions and parsley, lined the pan with potatoes and onions, salted/peppered, and finally stuck the whole thing into the oven. We basted with maple syrup and water every TWENTY minutes. Halfway through, we put on a lil bacon hat and wrapped the legs with foil.
Davey brought over this game he discovered in New Zealand called Hive. It's a two-player game so we played this for like THREE HOURS, while the turkey was baking. I lost all but two times, but I'm addicted! I want this game... for Christmas, please? It's a combination of chess and dominoes, sort of.
I had just enough time to finish my broccoli with gruyere cheese, by the time everyone else showed up around 4pm, which included Armand, his cousin Rob, and our friend Phil.
Here's a picture of our turkey, with its bacon hat and all:
we thought that next time, we should put more bacon on, as it sort of became crisp and candied...
A couple of my favorite dishes from 2007: Armand made the best pumpkin pie I've ever had. I think his secret ingredient was ginger and nutmeg. I don't know how he did it but it was really good!
I love Trader Joe's spinach and artichoke dip. It comes frozen and all you need to do is microwave it. This was my breakfast and lunch, while we were making all the food.
After dinner, we had warm apple cider and played more games. We started out with Bohnanza, the bean game, which is also one of my favorites. Then went to Jenga, and then ended with Hive again.
I'll write another post of all the things that I'm thankful for this year... I woke up at 2:30pm today!!! That's how exhausted I've been, doing this night float rotation. I don't think I've really slept more than 3-4 hours in a row during the past 2 weeks, until last night! Plus, I get to sleep in again tomorrow, since I'm not working until tomorrow night. Yay!
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