What's cookin'

Happy Thanksgiving to all.
All day yesterday, our house was filled with the awesome smells of Jake preparing for Thanksgiving dinner!  Yum!
Here's what we've (Jake, my mom, and I) made so far:

• Cornbread Stuffing
• "Regular" stuffing
• Cranberry sauce
• Cranberry vodka (may also be referred to as "Cranberry sauce")
• Sweet potato cassarole
• Pecan pie
• Pumpkin pie
• Chocolate tart
• Apple pie
• Cranberry-raspberry-Jello salad

Here's what's going on today:

• Turkey 1 ("normal" turkey, currently cooking in our oven, from Elm Turkey Farm in Dracut)
• Turkey 2 (some sort of heritage breed...currently cooking up at Matt & Mary's, from John Crow Farm)
• Mashed potatoes
• Green beans
• Creamed onions
• Brussels sprouts (with some manner of bacon/maple glaze
• Roasted butternut squash
• Purple cabbage

I will probably update the list later.....I'm sure there's more.

Anyway, all is well here.  Jennifer, Brendan, and Luke are here; Paul and Kathy will arrive later for dinner. We're borrowing Matt & Mary's oven to keep up with the madness.  Woo hoo!

Pies in action:


Hope you're eating well, wherever you are!

1pm update:
Lucy's "napping" in our room, so I am too.  Don't tell her I'm typing.
We watched some of the Macy's Day parade.  It's kind of a tradition here -- Brendan actually marched in the parade one year, and I went into the city to watch him.  It was awesome.

We also watched some of the Dog Show, which is a more recent tradition.  Carter really likes it.

Turkeys are cooking away as planned. We're excited about trying two different kinds of birds.  We're not completely sure *which* heritage breed we got, but it should prove an interesting taste test.
YUM!