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Elle · Hermes

How'd your T-day meal turn out?

e_doli · Dooney & Bourke

Mine came out really good. I spent a total of 12 hours cooking over tuesday and wednesday nights and thursday morning -- i never expected it to take so much time. the only failure was my popovers with sage butter. it was the first time i've attempted to make popovers, and they didn't exactly pop so well.

the only trouble with the whole meal was that it was really hard to make sure everything was served hot. there were 7 or 8 dishes, and most ended up not quite hot enough when we sat down to eat -- how do you do it without a double oven and/or warming drawer? (i am now def. getting both of these in our next house.)

wicked · Coach

Mine came out great. I made my first potpie and just put a sheet of puff pastry on top instead of using pie crust. There was left over filling too that i'm gonna put on top of a nice thick slice of homemade bread or on top of mashed potatoes. It was really easy too.

e_doli · Dooney & Bourke

i was just alterted to a silly mistake i made with the turkey. i bought an all natural one from whole foods, and did the normal prep -- rinse, remove giblets and neck. all i found inside for giblets was the neck and some weird small muscley looking thing -- not in a bag or anything. i thought it was a strange since turkeys usually come with the whole bag with various guts in it -- but whatever. brined the turkey, stuffed it, cooked it.

last night as my SO is picking at the leftover carcass, he discovered that there was a small paper bag of giblets still inside. instead of putting it in the main cavity with the neck and that other thing, it was stuffed into the opposite end. so yup, i'm officially one of those people who cooked their turkey with the giblet bag still inside.

kittenheels · Coach

I just thought I'd add my new ultimate turkey sandwich for leftovers:

Baguette - toasted and split

Spread one side with goat cheese

Spread other side with cranberry sauce

Add turkey in the middle (that you've heated in the microwave - or just toast everything)

Add some lettuce or slices of apple - both are good.

DH and I ate this every day for lunch and a late night snack - so tasty!

NCshopper · Hermes

Our meal was sooooooooooo good, mainly because DH did all the cooking. My brother-in-law took pics:

<--for the apple, sage, sourdough stuffing

Kale (it was braised and then baked as a gratin)

<--My contribution: cream cheese stuffed dates with walnuts

Hermes

ha! love the food pictures!

elle - sorry to hear about your throat

mine went exceptionally well. the turkey was so moist, it fell off the bones! we went for a nice nature walk with mulled wine in insulated cups after dinner and came back to sit by the fire and relax. it was honestly the best thanksgiving I've had in years.

Kelly · Hermes

It turned out pretty well. All the women in my family came to my parents' house at noon, while the guys went to my uncle's house for football, of course. My mom busted out a bunch of aprons, a lot from the 50s, so we all had fun playing dress up. No one wears aprons anymore! (And she gave me my favorite one to bring home to my apartment, yay!)

It was all delicious, and as the woman officially in charge of the pies, I did not disappoint. We had 5 different kinds, and multiple pumpkin and Derby pies.

The only thing was... the derby pies we ate on Thanksgiving were wonderful and delicious. So the next day, I was invited to my BF's family's home for their leftover party. I brought a derby pie that was extra from Thanksgiving. Except when we cut into it, it was super gooey inside - so much so that I kind of made a comment about how maybe we shouldn't eat it. Everyone did, and said how good it was, but I didn't eat it because it looked too oddly goopy for me. So I don't know if they were all just humouring me or not!