Thanksgiving!

We had our family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday at my Dad's.  I'm in charge of the turkey and stuffing as my sisters are vegans.  I forgot to buy sausage for the stuffing (we use a recipe from the 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook which practically every bride married in the 50's received) so my Dad gave me some from his freezer (aka the ice cave).  When I took it out of the wrapping, it did not smell funny but it looked a bit like it had been frozen and thawed and then frozen again.  Just a bit shrivelled.  So I cooked it with the celery and onion, mixed it with the proper spices and bread and stuffed it into a stuffing bag in the turkey.  I pulled it out when the turkey was cooked and tasted it.  It tasted a bit funny so I got my brother to taste it as well and he said it was off.  We threw it out.  My brother didn't swallow the bit he tasted but I did so I was worried about food poisoning the rest of the day.  I was ok.    I felt really bad about the stuffing as I'm usually smarter when it comes to food handling.  And stuffing is just about the favourite part of the meal in our family.  My brother used to take almost all of it when he was a kid until he was caught and had to give it back!  Now his son tries the same thing!   Anyway, the turkey was fine and we had enough other side dishes to keep us well fed.  

We had 6 pies!  My sister Lisa says there can never be too much pie but I really think there was too much yesterday.  3 pumpkin, one of which was vegan.  2 cherry and 1 apple. We only consumed 1 pumpkin, part of the vegan pumpkin, 1 slice of apple and 1 slice of cherry for 12 people.  So Dad will have lots of leftover pie which will suit him fine.

Lisa wants to have an all pie dinner one Sunday.  We would have a savoury pie and then a sweet pie for dessert.  We occasionally do theme dinners at Dad's to keep it interesting.  Like the all sandwich dinner  with whoopie pies for dessert or the "everything wrapped" dinner where everything had to be wrapped in something like a tortilla, lettuce or crepe.  Lisa also suggested an all "Loaf" dinner which could be very interesting.  

Once again, this was all about food and not necessarily the healthy kind.  6 pies is too much pie.  I told my Dad that I'm cutting down on the sweets I'm bringing to him for awhile.  He knows it's a good idea.