gobble gobble

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I know I'm a day late to be posting this, but what the heck. I had this goal this year to take phenomenal food pictures. I wanted pictures of the process of cooking the food, the food sitting on the table, presentation, etc. I always say I'm going to take good food pictures and always forget. So this year, I did it, I took tons of great food pictures, except for making gravy, but that's another story. When I got home from Thanksgiving at Ann's house, I was so excited to upload my pictures and start blogging about the last two days of doing nothing but preparing food! I started to laugh out loud when I realized I had done such a good job taking pics of the food that I took NO pictures of any PEOPLE that I celebrated Thanksgiving with. Pretty much what I've learned from this experience, is that I can only think of one thing at a time, I'm just that lame. But since I did take food pictures, I might as well post them. Two views of our fantastic spread that shows mom's rolls, Lisa's killer cherry jello, creamy mashed potatoes and turkey gravy baby...Appetizer table...Allie's beautiful chicken salad logs... My yummy stuffed mushrooms...Mom's famous rolls (before they were baked)...My favorite of course is of this one of the turkey...The only reason there are people in the picture is because Wayne thought it would be fun to jump in on the turkey picture I was taking and Ann decided to take it a step further than that and be commical about it. It smelled so good and we were so hungry that Ann was only channeling what all of us felt! GIVE ME TURKEY! The brined turkey was good but not as juicy I thought it would be. I will give it another shot next year but I'm going to buy real brining bags and see if I can't get it ready earlier to soak longer. We'll see... Ok, so my personal accomplishment for the day was the gravy. This may not sem like a very big deal to you, but I've always been afraid of making real gravy, like making a rue, use the turkey drippings, not from a packet gravy. I meant to have someone take pictures of my journey but it was all so exciting that we forgot. I couldn't have done it without the moral support of Ann and Eileen who were cheering me on to victory, for real people, it was pretty exciting. It turned out slightly salty, but other than that, it was finger lickin' good. I made gravy ya'll!So, Thanksgiving was a great day, I really enjoyed hanging out with all Moore's the twins were just too cute and I especially loved the pie part of the evening which, I was so busy enjoying that I didn't photograph any of the pies. Too bad but they sure tasted good. Mmmmmm, Thanksgiving, we should do this more than once a year don't you think? It's like Sunday dinner only more fattening. Happy Turkey Day all!