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Thanksgiving was pretty good here. i just have one gripe.

Posted: Nov 25, 2010

Do NOT bake an apple pie in a convention oven. LOL The top crust never browned even though I baked it for 50 minutes. I wound up putting it under the broiler for 3-4 minutes, watching carefully that it didn't burn. Other than that, it was pretty good and I'm proud as it was the first time in 20 years I baked any pie since my oven burns everything on the bottom (that's why I never baked in all those years).

Otherwise, things went quite well for us. Everything was done on time. Nothing underdone, nothing overdone, and I had plenty of time on my hands. Turkey was perfect, nice and juicy and only half a breast, the legs, thighs, and wings left. I only made potato filling, corn, gravy and rolls with it since DH doesn't like a fuss and even yelled at me for wanting to go to 'all that trouble'. His tune changed when I served everything. He had 3 helpings of turkey (and he doesn't like turkey that much).

Tomorrow for lunch I'm going to make turkey wraps with the last of the breast meat. I'll probably make a casserole with the dark meat.

Hope everyone had as great a day as I did. I'm so happy that everything turned out so great.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving! - Christine

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Thanks for your post. It makes you feel so good when things turn out the way you wanted, on time, and appreciated. My family had dinner at my niece's. I just love to spend time with her and her daughter, who is now 14 and the love of my life. My other niece was there with her family. Her son is very gifted musically. He brought his guitar and played quietly shortly after we arrived. It was so nice. He turned 18 in February. Of course, the cats helped to make my day enjoyable. They always get up from their nap later in the day to come down for their evening meal. So glad you had a good holiday!

Oh, so nice. - Backwards Typist

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Playing the guitar sounds so relaxing and peaceful. Being with family on a holiday is great. The only one that had any musical talent in our family was me and I haven't touched an instrument in umpteen years. LOL

Since I only have sons, of course the wife's family comes first. No big deal. I'd rather they go there to keep the peace. We were invited to our foster son's place but our plans were already in place and we're not the changing-plans-in-a-minute people; but a 1-hour phone call from him was sufficient. :-) My eldest son called late last night. He was going to be alone (didn't want to to anywhere)yesterday and he's a great cook. He made a brined turkey, sweet potato casserole with pecans and the rest of the fixin's. His girlfriend couldn't make it to her mothers because of bad weather, so they had a nice time, too.

One thing I didn't mention was that I forgot to serve the cranberry sauce but that was no big deal either since I'm the only one that likes it.

So glad your Thanksgiving was good, too.

Had a wonderful, peaceful Thanksgiving - RubySoho

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I had to work (not that there was any work, but I had to keep checking), so it was just my husband and I. It was our 4th Thanksgiving together and our first with just the 2 of us. We had slow-roasted prime rib, brussel sprouts, garlic mashed potatoes, whole grain rolls and, for dessert, vanilla ice cream topped with a bit of Chambord.

Even though I had to keep checking for work every hour or so, it was a wonderful, tranquil Thanksgiving and the start of our own tradition, a "non-turkey" Turkey day, LOL!

I hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday as well. In retrospect, we were so broke last year that we were scrounging together coins just to buy a chicken quarter for dinner, so 2010 has been a very kind year indeed for us. I hope 2011 is totally awesome for ALL of us.

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