Good luck, Menolly!
We're doing the usual menu, which I already posted at the Watch but will recap here:
* BIG turkey
* Pepperidge Farm stuffing
* Mashed potatoes
* Sweet potatoes
* Crescent rolls
* Canned cranberry sauce (the kind you slice -- I know it's kinda gross, but it's tradition!
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* Steamed broccoli
* Individual pumpkin custards
* Chocolate pie
The girls stayed in Roanoke for this break, so I'm driving down there Thursday morning. This year, I'm going to teach them how to cook a turkey. Here's why. Several years ago, the mother of one of Magickmaker's friends called me about a week before Thanksgiving and asked me if I could do her a favor: "Could you cook my turkey for me?"
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Not "do you know a good recipe", not "can I borrow your oven", not even "we're inviting ourselves to your house for Thanksgiving" -- no, it was "could you cook my turkey for me". This from a grown woman with a 17-year-old daughter. Her rationale was that she'd never done it before and she didn't want to overcook it or undercook it. (To which I said, "Well, if it's undercooked, you put it back in the oven."
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) Anyway, I said I was too busy and made her go away.
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But I vowed that my kids would *never* be that pathetic.
Edit: Oh! I was gonna explain about the BIG turkey. I always get a much bigger bird than we need. Then I pick the meat off the carcass and freeze it. That way I have a cheap supply of turkey meat all winter for soup, stew, etc., plus we're not spending the whole next week eating turkey.
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Frozen cooked turkey meat will last up to 6 months without getting too badly freezer-burned.