Wednesday, November 23, 2011

I Refuse To Cook For Thanksgiving, So Bite Me, Birds

I'm on the Cape this week, visiting in-laws and enjoying one of the local B&Bs. I am also not cooking...followers of this blog know all about my dealings with the Thanksgiving Curse, being spat on by gravy packets and frantically microvaving slices of undercooked turkey breast meat, and getting lost in my own town while shopping for the big T-day...the horror is unending.

Well, this year the Curse is the Old Yarmouth Inn's problem, suckahs! All I need to worry about is figuring out if I'm eating turkey or turkey, or turkey (I'm a traditionalist, I s'pose). And sometime tomorrow night I'll get absurdly hungry and insist my husband take me to a D'Angelos for a turkey sandwich. And I'll sign some stock at the Hyannis B&N. And find and devour another sandwich. Because that's what the holidays are all about: me stuffing myself until all I can do is flop on the floor and moan, "No...more...turkey."

Mmm...turkey...by which I mean Happy Thanksgiving!

(Is it weird that after blogging this I really want some turkey?)

3 comments:

Melissa said...

On Wed and Thurs I cooked a turkey for mom and another for dad. Both had the same recipe and cooking but 2 outcomes. the first one was a little dry and the second was moist. oh well I'll use the same recipe next year

a35c34c8-0674-11e1-95b8-000bcdcb8a73 said...

We don't eat until 6 on the holidays because I am sooo past the point of getting up at dawn to start dealing with the bird. Put the bird in the oven by 12:30. I'm allergic to onions, garlic, and peppers so I'm a control freak. I make my own stuffing and add the spices myself. I make two gravies because my kids and their spouses hate mushrooms. sigh... But I do buy the pies from our local farmer's market. And then we eat. And eat. And continue eating. It took 3 loads in the dishwasher to clean all of the dishes and silverware!

Anonymous said...

You are welcomed here any time, MJ and bring whomevber you wish.My nice,(remember Jennifer?), made a wonderful full traditional meal for Thanksgiving and I made a coupple of buffet.We had a lot of family but still have enough left over for a dozen people in my fridge.We had a ball with re-discovered cousins...we're going to have them coe up every year...New Tradition!
Yours sounds like it was very good for you.Now, on toward Christmas...maybe after the weekend!
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