I have a lot to be thankful for; family, friends, being "retired", my lifestyle and my health. We take so many things for granted, it’s great that we can take this time to give thanks for all our blessings.
Turkey dinner was at my sister Teresa’s house (as usual and Thank You for doing this!), with enough food to feed 41 people! AND they all had seats to sit down and enjoy a most wonderous repast. Tables in the dining room/family room, tables in the formal living room and more tables in the "bonus/den" room (where the buffet was situated). Here are a few pictures…
lots of appetizers to get us through from breakfast to "dinner" at around 3:30pm… lots of adult beverages, sparkling wine, white wine, rose, red wine and sparkling cider & hot cider for the kids. 4 dishwasher loads later….
Menu:
- 2 24 lb turkeys, both stuffed
- 15 pounds mashed potatoes
- gravy
- candied sweet potatoes
- 4 double batches of hot rolls (around 8 dozen)
- green beans
- potato salad
- ambrosia (fruit) salad
- deviled eggs
- crudites
- 7 layer salad
Desserts:
- squash pie (hubbard squash, yum)
- pumpkin pie
- gooseberry pie
- marionberry pie
- pumpkin cheesecake
- pumpkin bourban cheesecake (I made this
- pumpkin squares (way yummy)
- Martha (chocolate pudding like pie)
- sour cream chocolate squares (another yummy dessert)
We were not short of food, but then, we were not short of people either! It’s always wonderful to get family together. What a great time, I think everyone enjoyed it, but it takes so much time to get ready and then it’s over so fast. I was cooking for 3 days and "whoosh", the food was gone, but that is a good thing.
I hope you and yours had a great turkey day, however you celebrated.