Our 8+ kg turkey (over 17 pounds)...beautiful, brined, and ready for carving. We used Alton Brown's roasting method and it was wonderful - cooked in about 3 1/2 hours and all of it wonderfully moist.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-roast-turkey-recipe/index.html
The purchase of a thermometer was a very smart addition as well - we would have never believed it would have been completely cooked that quickly otherwise.
O. overseeing the carving.
Some of us haven't had turkey in three years, so it was a pretty big deal. Everyone had to oversee the carving at this point. So much good food...mashed potatoes, freshly made cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, mushroom cornbread stuffing and apple-sausage-chestnut-cornbread stuffing, squash casserole, homemade rolls, baked corn, and of course the turkey and gravy. Mmmmmm....let's do Thanksgiving again.
Hey, pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen. It's S.'s dream. Just kidding.
Introducing Koreans not only to turkey, but to the fine American tradition of leftovers. Is it wrong that I asked everyone to bring their own tupperware?
Homemade peanut butter cups. Look at the boy's face. We were lucky to have any to pass out after dinner.
Dessert included the fore mentioned homemade peanut butter cups (I've already bookmarked the recipe to try later at O.'s request), zucchini bread, cranberry pistachio and chocolate chip almond biscotti, pecan pie, sweet potato pie and apple pie.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
The countdown to Christmas has begun here...I'll post pics of how we are helping O. count down. This morning involved roasting marshmallows on the stove before S. went to work. Nothing like counting down with sugar first thing in the morning!
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