Our day will be quiet, just Mike, Cortney and myself enjoying our homegrown, homemade dinner. One of the pitfalls of children growing up is that they have other obligations and invitations to holiday dinners. Jon, Bobbie and Jaymes will be having their Thanksgiving dinner with her family. They are helping Bobbie's Mom sheet rock her new addition and my folks have opted to go eat out.Our menu will be lessened, as Mike and Cortney don't like dressing or sweet potatoes. The menu will consist of our tom turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, whole wheat rolls, sweet corn casserole, pistachio pudding salad, a relish tray with carrots, pickles, pickled beets and green beans and olives. We will be making the pies today( apple and traditional pumpkin) as well as the rolls. The turkey will have to be put in the wood cook stove oven by 8am to enjoy our dinner by 2:30-3pm. One thing is for sure we'll have plenty of leftover turkey, the tom is a BIG BOY! We love leftover turkey for sandwiches, casserole and of course soup with homemade noodles.
We don't typically venture out on Black Friday and Mike has to work, so Cortney and I will be re-arranging our living room, deep down cleaning as we go, in preparation for setting up our Christmas tree and decorations. Now begins the crunch in getting baking, candies and homemade gifts finished. We still need to make one more shopping trip to the city, to pick up odds and ends items for making our gifts, to purchase some stocking stuffer items and to stock back up on some needed items for our own use. That will be the last trip we'll make until well after the holiday frenzy is over.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!
7 comments:
Your holiday sounds wonderful. Happy Thanksgiving. Emily
Happy and peaceful Thanksgiving to you and yours. That is a great Turkey picture, are they yours?? I have been inspired to find a heritage breed to raise here for next year. I will have to do some research to find the right one for Florida. Enjoy you day!!
Your dinner sounds yummy!! I love left over Turkey too!! Love turkey and Mayo sanwhiches! Have a wonderful Blessed Day!!...debbie
Emily,
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Debbie,
I prefer mayo. but really like leftover turkey on leftover rolls.Mike and Cortney like miracle whip and turkey sanwiches, YUCK! Praying your day if full of special blessings, Happy turkey day Debbie!
Laura,
Yes those are our turkeys, some we have, some we've sold, some we've.... well you get the picture. We've had Royal Palms, Burbon Reds, Narragansets, Bronze and one giant white tom( who is currently 8 yrs old and weighs approx. 45-50 lbs. His name is snowball and he is a pet)
The palms, and burbons are nice sized, the narragansets are smaller and don't gain the weight that the bronze, palm and burbons do.
Actually turkeys handle the cold far better than the summer heat. We fill a large rubber tub and in the summer the turkeys will actually lay in the tub and most always soak their feet. Good luck in your turkey raising, they are interesting to say the very least.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too! Have a wonderful day and enjoy the company of your family.
Happy Thanksgiving, Kelle!
It's a lot of work, but well worth the blessings that are received from it all! [grin]
Enjoy your day, my friend!
Blessings!
~Kris
Glad to hear about all that yummy food! (Even as full as I am feelingnow!)
Yes, I, too, shall be cleaning and getting ready for the Christmas festivites...I usually put it off for awhile, but I think my blogging friends have gotten me into the spirit of the season! As for the stores? NO WAY!! Not going near any of them, nope, nope, going to have to DRAG me to the grocery store if need be! I only have to manage one trip to Costco for a few things and I am homesteadin' till after the new year!!
Yes, I am.
Really.
Please?
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