Stuffed* November 22, 2007
Posted by charmingbutsingle in Cooking, Family, NaBloPoMo, Snippet.trackback
At this moment, I am most thankful for my stretchy track pants and my scarf. Also, gravy.
I don’t know how you people up north do it – I am freezing my charming ass off and it’s maybe 30 degrees. But my hair is wonderfully smooth and straight. Something about the water and lack of humidity made it not frizz, which is a rare occurrence. If it weren’t so abysmally frigid, I’d stay here for the hair and the gorgeous leaves, all pumpkin-colored, gold-hued and kissed with tinges of maroon. Where I’m from leaves just turn brown and fall off because it stays hot for too long – the night before we left I was still wearing my flip flops.
This morning was a lot of making it work, cooking wise. A cornbread dressing recipe improvised, mashed potatoes added at the last minute and two different pecan pies – one with the pecans halved and another with the pecans chopped, as the two sides of my family diverge on this detail. To me it’s the sweetness of the syrup, not the size of the nut, that makes the pie.
After dinner we were cleaning and I was tasked with removing the remaining turkey from the bones. I was elbow deep in turkey, pulling large chunks off for sandwiches so the bones could be boiled for stock when my newly vegetarian brother walked into the kitchen.
“Did you ever think that the turkey had a name?” he asked, clearly offended.
“Yeah, it did have a name – Dinner.”
Happy Thanksgiving.
*So I missed a day of NaBloPoMo. I was traveling and they don’t have Internet on the highway. Poor planning on my part.
Sounds like a perfect day…even the ending!
Just wanted to say “thanks” for your writing this year. I’ve enjoyed coming along for the ride.
Hahahaha - this post cracked me up. Glad you enjoyed the holiday. : )
Heh, I liked the witty comeback. Happy Thanksgiving, Charming!
Dinner? Great answer!!!!
My friend’s dad raises cows, he’ll have 1 or 2 at a time and every so often slaughter one of them for the meat. He names the cows, rotating the names Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
Happy Thanksgiving, though it’s now the day after.
That’s exactly what I love about winter - my hair never gets frizzy once the humidity disappears. I hate the cold, but the benefit of having beautiful hair outweighs the cold… this is what super heavy down jackets are for!
(I live in Canada - in the mid-Ontario region… and in two days, we’ve gottten ~a foot of snow).
And wicked answer to your brother.
I am most envious of your comeback to your newly minted “vegen”, I, drunk with too much turkey and mashed, and dressing etc, would have thought of that about three days from now.
Winter? Pain in the ass.
such beautiful imagery! happy thanksgiving!
Hey the turkey I ate yesterday was named “dinner” too!
It was snowing today in MN…I still wore my flip-flops (you just might have died)
I have a close friend who became vegetarian this year. He has sort of a superior attitude now about food.