Thursday, November 26, 2009

330/365 Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We celebrated with family, fun and LOTS of food. The day began with a delicious breakfast and ended with yummy pies. In the middle we had great appetizer, LOTS of turkey and good time.

The morning began early. We needed to get the birds out of the brine and get breakfast in the oven before the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade began. The birds (yes, plural) soaked in Alton Brown's (recipe found here). We did two birds, one 19 lbs and one 11 lbs. The big bird was roasted, the smaller one was fried. We also did nearly a dozen turkey legs that were smoked on the grill.

Bird in the brine

Bird in the brine

The Wonder Cat was THRILLED to have my family here. He adores my parents and doesn't quiet understand that they don't live here. He loves the attention he gets while they are here and spends weeks looking for them after they leave.

Dad and Owen

Our breakfast was The Pioneer Woman's Blueberry Baked French Toast - so good! Recipe can be found here.

Breakfast - Blueberry French Toast Bake

Breakfast - Blueberry French Toast Bake

Breakfast - Blueberry French Toast Bake

Then it was time for the bird to get hot.

The Bird

The Bird

Some of my cute Thanksgiving towels

Thanksgiving towels

We had plenty of appetizers to snack on all day while the birds were cooking away

Thanksgiving Appetizers

Appetizers

Mom grabbing a pickle

Appetizers

Matt is still dreaming about the salami

Appetizers

Owen kept himself out of trouble by nesting into the grill cover we stuffed under a table. He made his own little Wonder Cat burrito

Wonder Cat nestled in tight.

The table set up

Thanksgiving Table

The food!

Thanksgiving dinner

The Wonder Cat enjoying an after dinner drink.

Wonder cat having a drink

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