This past weekend we hosted our Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving with our friends out here. It was so much fun, but crazy at the same time! I’ll run the stats for you just so get an idea of how big of a day Saturday was:
Guests: 11 people, 1 baby and 7 dogs
Dishes Washed: 8 loads. I am almost certain every piece of flatware, every dish, glass, bowl, mug and serving platter we own were washed at least once. And by hand at that, as we don’t have a dishwasher!
Football Games: 6 games in total were watched
Pounds of Food Consumed: Had to be in the neighborhood of 60
Impressive I know. I am being truly serious when I say it’s Tuesday and I think I just now finished digesting all the food from Saturday.
A menu is below (I’ll admit we ate like kings!) along with some pictures. I got as many as I could in between making food and getting it all put together, so my apologies for some of the picture gaps.
As for actual Thanksgiving Day, we’re heading to Albuquerque to hang out with friends.
Menu:
Appetizers:
Veggie Tray with ranch dip (Heather)
Meat and Cheese tray (Matt)
Baked Brie with Crackers (Me)
Main Meal:
Deep Fried Turkey with pancetta butter under the skin (Eric)
BBQ/Smoked Turkey with gravy made from the drippings (Joe)
Mashed Potatoes with Parmesan (Cody)
Corn Pudding (Cody)
Sweet Potato and Pecan Casserole (Laura)
Homemade Stuffing (Heather)
Green Chili (Eric)
Herbed Carrots (Matt)
Big Fall Spinach Salad (Katie)
Cranberry Relish (Me)
Homemade Rolls (Me)
Dessert:
Homemade Pumpkin Pie w/ Kahlua whipped cream (Katie)
Homemade Apple Pie w/ Cinnamon Maple Frozen Yogurt (Me)
Cranberry Orange Bread (Me)
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| We rearranged! |
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| Pancetta butter for the deep fried turkey |
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| drained yogurt and the beginning of frozen yogurt |
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| Cranberry Relish |
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| Rolls |
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| Apple Pie Filling |
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| My Apple pie with a crumb top |
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| Our friends' little boy, Hudson, being cute and entertaining himself with a spatula and over turned dog bowl. |
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| Apps! |
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| Chilling out and preparing for all the food he's about to beg for. |
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| The boys carving their turkeys |
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| The dogs hoping that some tidbit of turkey gets dropped |
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| Me slicing pies and you can see some of the spread! |
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