Thanksgiving 2010
This year we continued our tradition of cooking a big turkey! We took a little hiatus from this tradition last year when I was pregnant because I didn't feel like cooking ANYTHING then! I pulled out the recipe box and was determined to cook up a nice Thanksgiving dinner from scratch for my little family of three! We used J's mom's recipe for Turkey Mercedes, my mom's recipe for her awesome flaky biscuits, and then I mashed up some potatoes and made my grandma's famous green bean casserole! We even added our own little twist and made some stuffing and gravy from our awesome turkey! As much as we tried to plan it out we still ended up picking up our turkey a little last minute from the store.
The morning of Thanksgiving I woke up determined to get the bird prepped and ready to cook by 9 am so we could have a dinner/lunch with Maya. Needless to say our bird was still frozen in the morning, so we had to wait it out a bit. We didn't end up getting it in to cook until after 1 pm! J never has a timeline he seems to function off of and jokingly said, "I thought it was called Thanksgiving DINNER anyway!" Well, we both grew up in the midwest and lunch=dinner and dinner=supper there! We ended up feeding Maya her Thanksgiving dinner minus the turkey a little bit early so she could still have an on-time bedtime! She absolutely LOVED feeding herself and the green bean casserole was by far her favorite. After she went to bed we were able to kick back and enjoy our Thanksgiving dinner together. I even broke out our "good china," from our wedding. I definitely give props to all of those families out there that cook from scratch all the time. I found it difficult to find the time with a little 10 month old crawling around! Luckily J was home so he entertained her while I was slaving away in the kitchen! P.S. yes, J still holds Maya during her naps. He is such a softy.
