Today for the first time in my life, I baked a turkey. Clay had always cooked the turkey, one, because he really enjoys doing it and two, because his family raised turkeys on his farm growing up in Washington.
I have been watching cooking shows and saw one on brining the turkey overnight so Clay put together a brine got the turkey in it last night. Clay had to work today so the dinner has been mostly up to me. I just finished mashing up the sweet potatoes to get them ready to put the marshmallows on top and into the oven when the turkey comes out. I stuffed the turkey with oranges, lemon and onion for flavor and of course we won't eat the stuffing but again saw it on a cooking show and it sounded nice.
We are having the usual Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, mushroom stuffing, sweet potatoes with marshmallows melted on top, mashed potatoes, peas with mushrooms & onions, cranberry sauce, gravy rolls and naturally pumpkin pie for dessert.
Frances got up first thing this morning and put a Christmas CD in to listen to. Drew makes sure that no one here listens or takes out anything Christmas until today. Clay is on his way home now and we will eat then put up our tree and decorations. Drew and Clay are in charge of putting the tree up and lights on it. We are going to build a fire when it gets dark and pop popcorn to string to put on the tree. A big tree so it will be an on going project for the rest of this month.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
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