Rollerfeet Turkey Day

You could say that food is the center of a great Thanksgiving…

  

Becky’s pies are starting to meet Martha level quality… (Notice Mickey’s pathetic attempt at pumpkin pie hiding behind Becky’s oven-baked pride.)

  

This year the turkey (always my job) was soaked in a honey brine over night, then smoked with Cherry wood for 5 1/2 hours. The flavor was excellent, but the cock had done a little too much walking — it was stringy and gristle-y in the dark meat. It was good enough that at this writing the only remains of the dozen-pounder are a drumstick and 2 sandwiches worth of white meat. (Tonight’s supper had to be sushi on the south side at a new joint called Uchi.)

Evil Emily brought over these delicious twice-baked taters. I only had a bite but I’m pretty sure she wanted to kill me with one of these double-cheesed delights. (For the uninitiated, I’m allergic to all milk products, so one of these would’ve left me indisposed for a day or two — unlucky me. :o( )

Becky baked a scrumptious cornbread with pieces of whole kernel corn in it — the way I like it. Not pictured are the two type of stuffing, Emily’s broccli in yogurt, some store-made rolls and Becky’s fresh stewed cranberries. She prefers to know the source of her fruit…

I, on the other hand, prefer mine to be unidentifiable. Yum! (And all the better for spreading on sandwiches the next morning!)

  

Of course, the real blessing of Thanksgiving is companionship. Seated here you see Brian “G” Walters, Rod (our BNAT5 shill), Zach “the newbie cabbie”, Stephen Mick Mickey Ray, Emily (the dairy loving fiance) and my wonderful wife Becky.

After dinner and dessert we cleared the table and pulled out a new deck of Tobasco Green playing cards, a set of black/green/blue/red poker chips and we all contributed to Rod’s happiness. (I think he more than doubled his initial $3.)

Then we moved into the living room to try the new Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture DVD Edition. It was a blast — short games due to fairly easy pop culture questions. (Thanks to his US subscription I think even K-Pho could’ve played.) Rod and I played everyone else. The stats would show that we had more yards and first downs, but the other team was able to catch our three pie lead and found the center of the wheel first.

After games we wound down with a showing of Return of the Pink Panther. The guys giggled and guffawed through Peter Sellers hilarious antics, while the gals sighed at the juvenility of it all.

Happy Thanksgiving all! and special thanks to our guests for keeping us hapily occupied as we were away from our families.

Posted by etrigan at November 28, 2003 8:51 PM