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November 26, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow. That was fun!
So, this past week, The Entire Gibson Clan invaded Portland. OK, not the entire clan, but my mom, my sis, my dad, his parents, and my mom's mom. Sister and mom's mom stayed with us, everybody else was at the hotel 'cross the river. WONDERFUL time! Saw a great big airplane, almost got blown down the Gorge at Vista House, and amused my coworker with family hijinks at the fish joint. More or less super fun good times.
Thursday was Family Thanksgiving. I chickened out on frying the second turkey, because I was running short on time and propane. Good thing I was VERY clever, and bought a big ol' smoked bird from Clay's. Last week, B suggested that we might think about buying a smoked turkey while we were doing dinner there. My first reaction was "Fool woman! I'm FRYING turkeys!" But then, I had a vision of TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR on Thanksgiving day, and fourteen hungry people (my fam, B's fam, and random other ppl) looking at me, wanting me to Do Food Magic.
I swiftly reconsidered my derisive dismissal.
The next day, dropped off a Great Big Frozen Bird, four days later delicious turkey. YUM. And yay! Totally used the backup turkey.
Got a couple new yummy recipes broken in this year. Cranberry relish, and cornbread dressing (which works beautifully with rosemary instead of sage, and you can throw in some nice stale wheat sourdough in place of the Plain Old Bread).
My grandparents took off yesterday, and everybody else landed safely this evening. Decompression begins in five...four...three...two...buhbye.
Posted by Lee at November 26, 2005 08:31 PM