I may not eat for days. And days and days. (Except gumbo tomorrow - it's a tradition and required.) Even the critters got extra goodies. (And this morning J.D. and Joey got the end trimmings from the andouille sausage and are convinced that those are the Best Dog Cookies Ever and, please, ma'am, could I have some more?)
This year, instead of running around nuts in the kitchen and having everyone to our house, we gathered at my son's house in Austin. We provided a few dishes; he cooked the turkey and some side dishes, our daughter and her SO brought the desserts. At one point, I walked into the kitchen where the two of them were working on dishes and said, "I'll just get out of your way." She looked at him and said, "When's the last time you heard her say that that in this kitchen?" He replied, "I've never heard her say that in ANY kitchen." So, yeah, it's My Kitchen, but this year I discovered the joys of just letting go and letting the grownup kids do it.
Okay, so yesterday, we had:
Turkey (with a spiced skin from a rub that I have to get the recipe for from my son)
Two kinds of dressing - one with jalapenos, andouille and pork sausage, one without the jalapenos, but with sausage and bacon - the dueling dressings made by father and son
Collard greens cooked with bacon and spicy V8 and assorted other secret ingredients - my traditional recipe
Garlic blue cheese mashed potatotes - exotic recipe by my son the chef
Sweet potatoes with golden raisins and cinnamon and onions (my other contribution)
Squash New Orleans (from Cooks.com if you want the recipe - really delicious way to make acorn squash that my husband discovered)
Pink Stuff (a concoction involving cottage cheese and jello mix and fruit salad and Cool Whip - sounds awful, but is addictive even to confirmed health food nuts, a recipe inherited from my husband's mother and thus a holiday tradition made by the youngest in the family for all holiday meals)
Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Nouveau Beaujolais
Hot Coffee
Today, the leftover turkey and andouille is simmering in a Thanksgiving Leftovers Gumbo for tomorrow's Saturday After Thanksgiving Turkey Gumbo Day (never eat gumbo on the day it's made).
So, what family tradition face-stuffing did YOU do yesterday?
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