We have our first official, out-of-town visitors this week!
Elizabeth's father and sister, Cathy, flew in yesterday to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with us.
Yesterday was spent relaxing and preparing for today's dinner.
I'm not sure what they were doing here. Feel free to caption this one yourselves...
Elizabeth and Cathy then prepped the bird and baked the pies...
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This morning – Thanksgiving day – the women dressed the turkey and popped it in the oven. I wasn't familiar with the radical turkey technique of slathering the bird with mayonnaise, cramming it into a paper bag and shoving it in the oven...
While Elizabeth kept an eye on dinner Mr. Benson, Cathy and I went for a short hike around Muir Woods, a state park coastal redwood forest about 4 miles from here.
Fast forward to the meal's completion...
Evidently the mayonnaise/bag trick forms some sort of "self basting" arrangement. As strange as it sounds (to me, anyway) it results in a very moist, tender turkey. Add to that rosemary mashed potatoes, candied yams, spinach salad with blue cheese, candied pecans and cranberries and an amazing stuffing:
Excellent! An absolutely great Thanksgiving meal. Thank you Elizabeth... thank you Cathy. An awful lot of work went into the production of this dinner and it was all certainly very evident and very much appreciated!
1 comment:
Happy Day-After-Thanksgiving! Also, thank you, Phillip for the timely post. Looks as though the Bond/Benson household (including guests) enjoyed wonderful family togetherness and a delicious and attractive meal. Where was Nancy???????
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