Thanksgiving pros and cons...

The Pro's:

• Sista chat in the kitchen
  
• Sista HELP in the kitchen
  
• Nutmeg-Maple Cream Pie
  
• A free-range, organic turkey from Clemson U

• Ziplock's XL bags for the brine

• 1 hour of brine time per one pound of turkey (at least!)
  
• Recipe for Cider-Brined Turkey
  
  
  
  (Other than the hair which is sticking up in all directions from a morning of cooking--'ya see what I mean?)
  

Anduille Dressing--and Cidery Gibblet Pan Gravy-- (yum...)

It's all about the butter... LOL!
(and I'm sorry about any inane advertisements before the video)

No Black Friday shopping

Family filling the house
The Lord's blessings.

The Con's:

Did we really have to do two Thanksgivings on Thursday?

I didn't get to try out a recipe or two for Saturday because we had so much left over from Thursday...

Getting up at 5 for the turkey.

The NY Times turkey-cutting techniques that I didn't get to try. (sigh.)

Someone did it for me while I forgot to put the yeast in the rolls.
(That hasn't happened to me since I first started baking WhlWht Bread.)

I'm really good at making a mess in the kitchen.

I hope everyone had a wonderful, blessed Thanksgiving!