November 26, 2007

• So that's over...  Thanksgiving, that is.  It went well.  The turkey was a little bit overcooked, but good.  The experimental butternut squash casserole was delicious eliciting exclamations such as "oh my goodness" and "holy cow" and "oh wow" when people took their first bites.  I took that as a good sign.  The experimental jello salad was good, but not as loudly well received.  The experimental cranberry sauce was okay but not as good as last year.  The experimental stuffing was good, but I want to make tweaks on it for next year....  Hmm, I think those were all of the experiments....  I know, I should try them first, but that is just not who I am.  You eat at my house, you roll the dice!    Also, once I have tried a recipe, I rarely follow the recipe.  I fancy myself to be a chef or a chemist, and I just throw things in.  My mother always tells me that she needs to have my recipe, and I usually shrug and tell her that I don't have a recipe for whatever it is she is looking for because I made it up.  That is frustrating to her, because she is a precise cook--which is why her food consistently tastes the same-always delicious...  My food, however, is a crap shoot   But I enjoy making it.  It's funny...people come to my house and say (with great surprise in their voices) I didn't know you could cook!  It cracks me up, because Ron and I enjoy delicous meals here all of the time.....

  
  

  I made enough food for about 30 people.  We had 10 people for dinner, however, so we had LOTS of leftovers!  I am definitely not a good judge of quantities.  If it says it makes enough for 8 people, I feel like I should double it, because, what if people are really hungry?  Crazy, I know.  It was good, though, because we were able to send leftovers home with everyone who wanted them. 

  
  

  I haven't told any Tyler stories in a while, and I have a really good one....  Tyler is 3 now (and still adorable....)  He and his Mom pulled up to his preschool and he had a bottle of water that he had been drinking out of.  His Mom told him to leave it in the car, but Tyler said that he wanted to take it in to share with the other kids.  His Mom explained to him that because he had been drinking out of it, it had germs on it, and germs could cause the other kids to get sick.  She said that as she was talking, he was looking at her intently, and she kept going into more and more detail, and he kept staring at her and listening.  She could feel herself going into way too much detail, but was on a roll....  After she finally wound down, Tyler took the bottle, handed it to her and said, "Wow, that's deep Mom" and got out of the car.  She quizzed everyone who spends any time with him, and has no idea where he got that, but he used it in the right context and everything....it was, in fact, deep  

  
  

  Last, but not least, I got this from RevJeffrey's site.  This video is a great reminder for this holiday season of what is really important. 

  
  

  
  

  peace....

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