Y'know the best part? Tonight feels like Sunday, but tomorrow won't be Monday.
Huzzlewhat arrived on Thursday around noon, and brought her amazing cornbread stuffing with tons of cream and butter in it, plus pumpkin cheesecake, and made mashed potatoes and gravy as the turkey was finishing.
Every year I believe the Penzey's recipe and the turkey packaging that says it should take 3 hours for a 12-pound bird, and every year it's another full hour, while certain foods dry out. Grrrr. Still, it was delish, rubbed with Penzey's Bicentennial rub, which not only makes amazing turkey, but stellar gravy as well. I also made cranberry sauce, which Huz couldn't stop raving about, and was soooo easy. I used the Ocean Spray recipe (which can be found on their site, too), which just involves boiling the cranberries in a mixture of sugar and water. When they were done, I stirred in the remainder of a package of salad topper that consisted of slivered almonds and orange flavored craisins. And I made green bean casserole (my must-have from childhood), mustard bread and roasted sweet potato chunks with garam masala. Everything was absolutely delicious, and we have tons of leftovers between us.
Thursday we cooked and ate and watched the Star Trek 2009 film, plus a couple of eps of the Original Series -- "City on the Edge of Forever" and "Operation: Annihilate," the second of which we did a thorough MST3King of.
Friday was a sunny day, so we went out for a little while to cruise the kinda-sorta-dollar-store (We know how to do Black Friday!). Their big "wall-to-wall sale" consisted of 20% off certain items which had been raised from 99 cents to $1.19. Came back, watched some source text for Yuletide, then I introduced Huz to due South, and she fell just as hard as I did. (First one's free, kid...)
This morning, I got up early to take the cat in for his claw trimming, which also got me down the hill in time to put the 4 bags of T'giving garbage out for pickup. Vet visit was five minutes and out, and then Huz and I went to breakfast at the farmer's market, which is now set up on the ground floor of an old hotel, which had been a restaurant recently but closed. Had omelet sandwiches and pastries, then walked up the high street to look in stores -- she bought a cool hand-made shelf at one place, I bought a shirt and a cardigan at the thrift shop, and she got a shirt. We stopped in the art glass place to visit Lenny, the store cat, whom I've fed via the online feeder, and we got a demo of how it works as a whole, rather than as seen via web cam closeups.
Came back for another couple of eps of dS, plus cheesecake for lunch. At four she headed for home, and I went to the open house for my friend F's 90th birthday. There was quite a crowd there, and tons of great food, people who'd come from several states to be there, a man and his three daughters who sang several songs. People stayed quite a while rather than drifting in and then out. I helped the San Miguel gals in the kitchen for a while, and eventually headed home. Now am bone tired and glad I have a day of indolence and writing planned for tomorrow.
I feel like a weenie, but I think I'm going to bed now. It's been a great weekend! I hope my flist, whether celebrating Thanksgiving or not, are having a wonderful weekend as well.
Huzzlewhat arrived on Thursday around noon, and brought her amazing cornbread stuffing with tons of cream and butter in it, plus pumpkin cheesecake, and made mashed potatoes and gravy as the turkey was finishing.
Every year I believe the Penzey's recipe and the turkey packaging that says it should take 3 hours for a 12-pound bird, and every year it's another full hour, while certain foods dry out. Grrrr. Still, it was delish, rubbed with Penzey's Bicentennial rub, which not only makes amazing turkey, but stellar gravy as well. I also made cranberry sauce, which Huz couldn't stop raving about, and was soooo easy. I used the Ocean Spray recipe (which can be found on their site, too), which just involves boiling the cranberries in a mixture of sugar and water. When they were done, I stirred in the remainder of a package of salad topper that consisted of slivered almonds and orange flavored craisins. And I made green bean casserole (my must-have from childhood), mustard bread and roasted sweet potato chunks with garam masala. Everything was absolutely delicious, and we have tons of leftovers between us.
Thursday we cooked and ate and watched the Star Trek 2009 film, plus a couple of eps of the Original Series -- "City on the Edge of Forever" and "Operation: Annihilate," the second of which we did a thorough MST3King of.
Friday was a sunny day, so we went out for a little while to cruise the kinda-sorta-dollar-store (We know how to do Black Friday!). Their big "wall-to-wall sale" consisted of 20% off certain items which had been raised from 99 cents to $1.19. Came back, watched some source text for Yuletide, then I introduced Huz to due South, and she fell just as hard as I did. (First one's free, kid...)
This morning, I got up early to take the cat in for his claw trimming, which also got me down the hill in time to put the 4 bags of T'giving garbage out for pickup. Vet visit was five minutes and out, and then Huz and I went to breakfast at the farmer's market, which is now set up on the ground floor of an old hotel, which had been a restaurant recently but closed. Had omelet sandwiches and pastries, then walked up the high street to look in stores -- she bought a cool hand-made shelf at one place, I bought a shirt and a cardigan at the thrift shop, and she got a shirt. We stopped in the art glass place to visit Lenny, the store cat, whom I've fed via the online feeder, and we got a demo of how it works as a whole, rather than as seen via web cam closeups.
Came back for another couple of eps of dS, plus cheesecake for lunch. At four she headed for home, and I went to the open house for my friend F's 90th birthday. There was quite a crowd there, and tons of great food, people who'd come from several states to be there, a man and his three daughters who sang several songs. People stayed quite a while rather than drifting in and then out. I helped the San Miguel gals in the kitchen for a while, and eventually headed home. Now am bone tired and glad I have a day of indolence and writing planned for tomorrow.
I feel like a weenie, but I think I'm going to bed now. It's been a great weekend! I hope my flist, whether celebrating Thanksgiving or not, are having a wonderful weekend as well.
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