What A Feast!

Thanksgiving at the Wabbit House was perfect! Our small-ish gathering of 7 didn't feel small at all, and we had a huge yet casual meal with epic laughter and free-flowing libations. Our guests brought pies, cranberry sauce, pan-roasted winter vegetables, excellent scotch and port and wine and I'm probably forgetting something(s). We roasted up a 20-pound turkey that could have fed 20 people, had stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, cornbread, and more. This was the first year that I successfully made my own pan gravy. Previous years I have either failed and had to fall back on jarred gravy, or asked a guest to make it. This time, victory was mine!

I sound like a glutton listing off everything we stuffed in our mouths. The company was jovial and joyful, and beowabbit and I deeply grateful to our guests for making it such a success.

Neither Wabbit nor I know how to carve a poultry in neat slices the way you always see in food photography. We just sort of hack at it, and the chunks of meat still taste as good, but it's kind of a Cro-Magnon style of service. We'll have to work in the coming year to learn to carve civilized-like.

There's so much I'm also grateful for, but they deserve their own post, and Piggy-Girl has leftovers on her mind. (You can probably tell I'm hungry. :-)) I'm enjoying reading about everyone else's holiday, too!