Thankgiving 2009: Just our little family this year. It was our first Thanksgiving without being guests or having guests. And it was very enjoyable. I actually really liked cooking this year, although some foods were better than others:
MY THANKSGIVING REPORT CARD:
turkey: D-
(sad, huh?) Ryan wanted to buy the Jennie-o meat that was pre-packaged white turkey meat. Dis-gust-ing. It looked like a time saver (1 1/2 cooking time). Never again. And I miss yummy turkey sandwich leftovers...
stuffing: C
I tried to make my mom's recipe, and ended up being tempted by the pre-cut celery/onion mix and ruined it. So, I just made Stove Top.
mashed potatoes: B
Pretty good, but there were a few chunks in there...
gravy: D
Ryan mixed the turkey gravy and brown gravy togther. DON'T DO THIS!
sweet potatoes: A
Ryan makes the best sweet potatoes in the world (although he was this close to burning them...he turned it on broil for a few minutes so we could eat faster...they were the last thing to come out of the oven)
rolls: A
Thank you, Rhodes...
cranberry thanksgiving jell-o: A
My mom's recipe is priceless.
vegetable tray: A+
Without this, Josh wouldn't have eaten anything. Plus, those mini-sausages were super good! Nate very much enjoyed the olives. He got the bowl out of the fridge later and took 1 bite out of all of them.
corn: ???
Can you really grade canned yellow corn?
apple cide: F
Yuck. Costco has failed me.
A&W Rootbeer: A
Saved the day.
deviled eggs: A-
Tasted delicious, but were hard to peel, so some didn't look quite right.
apple pie/ice cream: A
Marie Callendars...so good. But it should've been refrigerated (it said not to on the box...liars.)
But seriously, spending the day as a family was GRADELESS! (ha ha)
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!
7 comments:
Fun! Sorry things didn't work out as tasty as you would have liked. Nice that you all got to be together though!
This is fantastic!!! I loved reading it. We missed you for Thanksgiving. Love ya.
Way to go on cooking an entire thanksgiving dinner by yourself, I'd say overall you got an A++ just for that alone! I love hearing what other people have as their traditional Thanksgiving dinner, it's interesting how different everyone is!
Sounds just wonderful. Good for you for going all out! And I love lumps in my mashed potatoes. It bugs me if they are too smooth...too perfect!
I like chunks in my potatoes... so you can knock that sucker up to an 'A', because some people like them that way!
You had an amazing menu! I think you had as much variety as we did, and we had huge amounts of people. So GREAT job!
We're glad it was a nice day!
Looks like you guys had a PERFECT Thanksgiving! What more can you ask for ....afterall little kids laughter there really is nothing sweeter:)
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