Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, our friend Jen did us a huge favor and agreed to handle this flat apple pie recipe for us, while we busied ourselves with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, prune cake and red velvet cake. Bless her heart, she …

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9:15 am: This morning has gone relatively smoothly. We’ve made two trips to the car, three from the car, and managed not to spill anything (yet.) We measured the oven (thanks Jen!) and determined that yes, the turkey WILL fit. …

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The oven schedule, above the oven.

So in case you haven’t gathered yet, MAC is GF (gluten free.) Because of this fact, she couldn’t come over to bake with us, but we had video-conference with her. First, we had to make a red velvet cake for …

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This was the list of ingredients, so we could figure out what we needed to buy. These are things that we needed to bring to Becca’s from Melissa’s house.

It’s the countdown to Thanksgiving. 4 days. Turkey has been bought. Recipes have been planned, ingredients have been divvied up, magazines have been examined, and we’ve watched Bobby and PW Throwdown. PW has won out, but not before B. Flay …

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                Getting the turkey out of the brine. Aromatics for inside the turkey.