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Thanksgiving for Two?
My husband is working tomorrow until 4:30. My parents live six hours away, and his mom and brother (+family) live 3.5 hrs away. DH's grandpa lives about 30-40 minutes away, and there is going to be a lunch there with DH's aunts, uncles, and cousins.
I love my hubby's family. They are wonderful and have always made me feel welcome, but I'm just not sure I want to go by myself.
I think I might just make a small Thanksgiving dinner for two- even doing it small scale, we'll end up with a lot of leftovers, but I think it would be nice to have dinner for just me and my hubby.
Anyone else doing this or done this in the past?
Re: Thanksgiving for Two?
I really like the idea of that intimate dinner and then decorating for Christmas. I have a nice bottle of wine I bought the other day, too.
So I'll go get the rest of what I need for dinner and clean the house today. Tomorrow, I'll cook and get out the Christmas decorations so that when the hubby gets home from work, we can eat and decorate.
Ooh- I can go to the Dollar Tree and get some decorations for an elegant dinner (on a budget, obviously- it's the Dollar Tree)- a bunch of votive candles and holders, some pretty chargers or something to spice up our usual place setting.
Yah, we're doing that this year, our first Thanksgiving as a married couple. My husband is in the Air Force and we couldn't make it home this year. I found some recipies for two for Thanksgiving, plus I don't eat meat, so we just got a small ham for him. We shouldn't have too many leftovers, but we'll see!
Have fun! It'll probably be a lot more relaxing than going to a huge dinner with a lot of people, that's how I'm looking at it.
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We've done it in the past. I'd suggest getting just a turkey breast or cornish hens to roast -- the cornish hens can be stuffed. Everything else can be scaled back portion-wise as well.
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I do Thanksgiving for four (two of whom don't eat much, so it doesn't change the scale of my meal) every year. We decided a while ago that Thanksgiving was going to be the holiday we celebrated in our own home; if our families chose to join us they were welcome, but they don't make the trip so it's just us.
I do a small turkey (it's traditional and it's the only way we get dark meat, but you could always do just a breast if those things don't matter to you). We also have stuffing, two veggie sides (things I can scale down to just 2 or 3 servings, like corn on the cob or sweet potatoes), bread, gravy, cranberry sauce, and a pumpkin pie (DDs request every year).
We usually only have leftover turkey, stuffing, and pie. DH likes turkey sandwiches so it gets eaten and I pick at the pie for 2-3 days before freezing a piece or two and then tossing whatever is left. We enjoy having a low key day for just our family. I'm always a little sad about missing family, but that feeling passes as I enjoy having uninterrupted time with DH and the girls.
So, we got a 4 lb turkey breast, and it is now sitting in a honey peppercorn brine.
The cornbread for the dressing is cooling. It is going to sit in the pan with a towel over it until tomorrow- hopefully that'll help make it a little stale.
The cranberry orange relish is cooling.
We bought pie, so dessert is done.
Tomorrow, I just have assemble the dressing and other sides (which will be green beans and mashed sweet potatoes with apple- I might do mashed potatoes for the hubby). Then, I have let the rolls defrost and rise before baking them. Finally, I'll make the gravy- I make horrible gravy, so I'm using help from Pioneer- I'm great at adding water to gravy powder. I'll probably add some drippings from my turkey.
Oh, and in the morning, I'm going to make wassail in the crock pot. It's going to smell SO good in the house.
We just moved to the Dallas area last month and have no family here. H and I are going to a Tday buffet at a steakhouse, just the two of us. We're excited to have the holiday to ourselves this year!