With all three boys staying home sick from school on Wednesday and two of them on Tuesday, we’d tentatively planned on celebrating Thanksgiving on Friday. Since they were having a hard time keeping food down, a big celebratory meal didn’t seem wise. Last night they seemed much better and were able to eat some dinner. By this morning everyone seemed just fine and ate breakfast okay, so we stuck with the normal day.

I got up a little after 7am and made a pecan pie. Then I started setting up for cooking the turkey since we tried deep-frying it for the first time this year. Never did that before and it turned out really good. We heard that it works best with an injected marinade, so we tried a mild Creole Garlic marinade, injected it throughout the turkey (focusing on the meaty parts), and then used a Rasta Rub on the outside. VERY tasty! Not a traditional turkey taste, but quite enjoyable. The turkey came with a bag of gravy mix that you add to 2 cups of drippings/water. Since there was a little of the marinade left that the needle didn’t suck up, I added that to the gravy. That gave it a similar taste to the turkey instead of having a regular gravy on a perky fried turkey. (Perky turkey! HA!)

With mashed potatoes, corn bread stuffing (with the turkey giblets), green bean casserole (complete with french-fried onions on top and fresh green beans), dinner rolls, and a sweet potato souffle, it was very filling Thanksgiving dinner with lots of leftovers.

And now there are THREE football games to watch! It’s 60 degrees outside, so it’s too warm for a fire in the fireplace. But a full stomach, plenty of football, and a Sam Adams Winter Lager make for a pleasantly sleepy afternoon/evening. Got to have some more sweet potato souffle and/or pecan pie later. Warmed up with whipped cream. :-)
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!