Giving Thanks

We had a lovely holiday with just one cooking catastrophe and very little drama. I only got into that wound up, teeth clenched mode once during a small incidence of possible salmonella contamination but was able to shake it off. Oh, and the gravy was terrible but I've never had much luck with turkey gravy anyway so I wasn't surprised. We threw it out and moved on.

I brined the turkey in a cooler and The Kid enjoyed using it as a chair until it was time to cook.

My morning began with cake baking. Unfortunately, I forgot the recipe I was using called for 9 inch cake pans. I used my 8 inch pans, overfilled them and we had a chocolate-cake-cooking-over-the-edge-of-the-pan disaster in the bottom of the oven at nine o'clock in the morning. It looked like this.My beloved and much appreciated husband helped me remove the disastrous cake blob from the bottom of the oven. He also fine tuned the flush of the toilet, all on the same day.

For the centerpiece, we took some mini pumpkins left over from Halloween and wrote the things we were thankful for on them. The Kid added some legos as the finishing touch because really, what centerpiece is complete without legos?

Our dinner was wonderful, but my turkey sandwich today was magnificent - I think that may be my very favorite part.

That being said, I did feel like I spent most of my day in the kitchen. I hope to scale down and simplify Christmas dinner so I can spend more time playing, less time cooking. Wish me luck.

How was your holiday?