Turkey day - two days later

a. My homemade cranberry sauce, the only way to eat cranberry sauce, b. Our first turkey brine, c. The base of our stuffing, we used dried French bread this year (uugghh so good), d. The turkey all buttoned up and ready to cook, e. The table, someday we will have a real dining table, f. Free style serving when you have three kids and three adults, there was no "passing" in this scenario, g. A temporarily healthy boy lovin' on some turkey, h.  I mashed up some sweet potatoes for sister, more got on her face than in her tummy, i. Renee and Dev jammin' before dinner

As you may have previously read we had to miss out on the official thanksgiving holiday but thankfully we had planned to do our own dinner the Saturday after and had already started the thawing process.  Deven was strangely fever free over the weekend so we kept the dinner on the calendar.  We had the Burgess's over and decided to do all savory dishes.  There was sage and rosemary all over our kitchen.  There was Turkey, sweet potatoes with roasted cashews, homemade cranberry sauce, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, stuffing, spicy green beans and butter rolls (aka a croissant in roll form).  Our goal was left overs and boy we succeeded.

Nick make turkey stock and then some turkey noodle soup and  I made turkey mishmash (aka turkey, stuffing and.potatoes in loaf form).  Lunches have never been better and I think we gained five pounds.  Thankfully I made Renée take her delicious apple pie home (one of the best pie crusts ever) otherwise it would have been 10 pounds.  The rest of this week we are going to use the stock in some other soups and stews.  I LOVE food!