Thanksgiving day
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner is over and hubby is off to go to work until the morning. Matt and Rachel left a few minutes ago and I am going to curl up and watch TV for a while. Most of the food is either on it’s way to other homes or put away in our refridgerators, it was a nice meal but very quiet here today……….Matt was behaving!!
I have to admit I did manage to dry out the stuffing this time……….there is a first time for everything I guess. I bought my stove with the two ovens almost 5 years ago and while I do love the stove I have actually never used the small side oven to cook anything. Today was the first time and I learned that the temperature in it may run hotter than it is set for. As I had multiple turkeys to cook in the larger oven I figured it would save some time if I didn’t stuff them but cooked the stuffing separately in the small oven. That way each turkey would cook quicker and I wouldn’t have to be up sooooo many hours to make sure they all cooked properly. I put the stuffing in 2 smaller pans that would fit the small oven and set the temp to 325 degrees, at the end of an hour they were very much overdone and the top wasn’t crispy, it was more like cement! O well, live and learn, besides Mick and I are the only ones who actually eat it anyway and there was certainly enough other things to eat. There was some other things that I didn’t get pictures of………..like mashed potaotes, green bean casserole, cranberry and breads. At the last minute Mick said he didn’t think we really needed the lasagna or manicotti so I didn’t make it, he was right, we really didn’t need it………..there was already too much food. The three fur kids also enjoyed themselves, they got a very large plate of turkey and ham, you had to see them dancing around, they really enjoyed it. If anyone who didn’t know us saw the way they were carrying on they would have though these 3 never got anything decent to eat, for the most part they eat the same as we do everynight, well, they get the meat and veggies that is, we don’t give them anything that might be spicy or not good for them.
I tried to get some pictures before we actually sat to eat but didn’t manage too well, everyone was hungry so the table never got everything on it, we just set stuff all over the kitchen and the table and helped ourselves then went and sat and ate. What pictures I did manage to get came out very fuzzy but I will put some of the better ones up here and hope you can make out what the food is.
I hope everyone had a wonderful day and enjoyed some good times.
Mattie