Posts Tagged ‘family gatherings’
Picking Apart The Family Thanksgiving
Another family Thanksgiving is history, and I have plenty to be thankful for. Among the blessings I’m counting:
- That my mother-in-law Kay’s very first brined turkey (apparently suggested by me last year in a fit of drunken expansiveness on ways to keep breast meat moist) was not a flop. I had visions of the family serving me a side dish of cold resentment.
- That my dinner rolls, based on Cook’s Illustrated’s 48-hour cool rise recipe, were not a complete disaster after I allowed them to rise only 16 hours in the refrigerator. What was I thinking? Two days on dinner rolls? It’s like spending 48 hours to rotate your tires.
- That my wife, Carrie, was able to salvage her tasty, bite-size appetizer after discovering that plastic wrap turns golden beets the most unappetizing shade of purplish-green when covered with the evil clingy stuff in the fridge.
- That our fat, foraging beagle, Coltrane Meatsack, did not once try to get on the table and grab himself a turkey carcass. (You think I’m joking? The dog routinely walks across our dining room table during parties when we’re busy in the kitchen. The screams that this act elicits from guests are blood-curdling.)
