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Countdown to turkey prep: T minus 1hr, 20 min.
I am seriously freaking out about this, guys. I literally had a turkey dream the night before last! In my dream, the bird DISINTEGRATED in the roasting pan when I pulled it out of the oven, and it hadn't even been in there that long!
Last night I just dreamed that my grandfather had adopted a gargantuan copperhead snake that was trying to attack me.
I think everything is pretty much set to go. I have the brown rice bread toasted and cubed for the gluten-free stuffing, and I sure hope that it's SUPPOSED to be hard as granite. It will soften up in the crock pot, I'm sure (What? You thought I was going to make a Thanksgiving meal without using a crock pot?).
I'm still not sure that I can wait to crack open the wine until BIL's wife gets here. I need to remember that she will arrive after spending an hour in the car with MIL, however. Her needs are clearly greater.
How did everyone else's cooking adventures go? I know some of you are old hands at this, but I'm also not the only going bravely unto the breach!
Re: Countdown to turkey prep: T minus 1hr, 20 min.
We only had to bring the rolls yesterday...we lucked out!!
DH and I normally host Easter because his birthday is around Thanksgiving (it's tomorrow) and MIL likes to have him home for a meal around his bday.
Good luck with your meal!
We brought a sweet potato casserole (which barely anyone ate) and it was my first time even using that recipe...and I didn't eat any. I would have rather done roasted sweet potatoes.
I also made the mashed potatos at my mom's house, which were pretty tasty, there wasn't any left!!
I also brought some doctored up cornbread-I add melted butter, syrup and honey to the mix, and then after it's done baking, I spread butter and syrup on the top. It makes it much more moist than regular cornbread from a box.
I made some pumpkin bread too, but I just gave it to my mom because she didn't get any on her birthday when I made it.
On the bad side, my mom forgot to put some string under the turkey to be able to lift it out. She and my sister were lifting it out (probably using spatulas and stuff) and it was so tender, it fell all over the stove....her perfect turkey fell apart and the stuffing fell on the stove. Luckily not on the floor, and they salvaged almost everything, and it was still delicious. I felt so bad for her, but it really was delicious.
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
Sweet potato casserole is one of my favorite parts! MIL said noone else would eat it.. so we just brought sweet potatoes that were baked.
It did go well.
The turkey turned out beautifully (WHEW!), and everything else was good, too. The stuffing wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be, but I had to make it with hard-as-rock gluten-free bread because of MIL, so, all things considered, I think it was good. I was so proud.
MIL left Matt a voicemail a bit ago saying that she "needs to discuss something with him," though, so I'm wondering what that's all about. Not like she didn't have 5 hours with him yesterday to "discuss" things, but she likes to keep up this facade of the perfect, happy, worry-free family during "special times." I wonder if it has to do with me in some way (I no longer go to great lengths to be all sweet and sugary with her, though I'm still civil) or if it's just more of the usual.