Thanksgiving

We were not quite sure if we were going to cook a Thanksgiving meal this year. We leave tomorrow for Australia and it just seemed like too much work to do the day before we leave. Chris suggested a couple of days ago that we should do it on Thanksgiving eve. That way we could finish packing on Thanksgiving and have more time to eat the leftovers.

Chris did everything! I LOVE my husband. He stayed up until 1am on Tuesday night doing all the prep work. The prep work included making home-made bread cubes for the stuffing, salting the turkey and making turkey stock from scratch to baste the turkey in and make gravy from. Chris worked so hard that he got a blister on his finger - mostly from cutting up all those bread cubes! This year we had a "Herb roasted turkey with shallot-dijjon gravey" from the November 2008 Bon Appetit (it's the one on the cover). The turkey was AMAZING! I have never eaten such a moist, flavorful, succulent turkey. Chris also made fresh cranberry sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn on the cob, asparagus and broccoli. It was all so DELICIOUS! I wish we had invited some friends to share it with us so I could brag about how great Chris's cooking is!

Sam and Ella have been talking about Thanksgiving at school all month and even had a Thanksgiving meal one day at school. They were very excited about having Thanksgiving this year and tucked into their feast too. I love Thanksgiving! It's such a great holiday. You just can't go wrong with a holiday that's just all about food!