We had a great Thanksgiving! The highlights were having Casey and Christina (and baby Stella) over, the sweet potato casserole (Thanks to Mommo and Paula Dean) and being all done cooking for a little bit! Craig and Alton Brown helped with the Turkey this year. We didn't brine it, but we rubbed it down with salt and pepper and shoved butter under and all over the skin and put a bundle of fresh herbs and a sliced onion in the cavity. Then we started it in the oven at 500 for the first half hour. We took it out and put a double layer of foil over the breast, lowered the cooking temp to 350 and then inserted a thermometer timer into it to tell us when it reached 161. It came out browned nicely on the outside with juicy white and dark meat! I think we'll do that every year from now on! I think next year I'll do vegetable oil on the skin instead of butter though. I think it'll crisp up better that way. After eating we went for a walk and Casey got to try out Katie's princess scooter (she's great at sharing). Anyhow, the only downer of the day was the berry pie I made. I usually buy one, but couldn't find the Marie Calendar's Razzleberry pie that I love this year. I got a recipe from a friend and it had to have been copied down wrong. It was a solid gelatinous mess! We all tasted it and had a good laugh over how horrible it was. Thankfully the other pies were good so it wasn't a total loss. At the end of the evening I got out the "Pin the hat on the turkey" game that I bought at the dollar section of Target(where all good things come from). It was a fun way to end the evening along with a viewing of Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and a second round of Thanksgiving dinner for me! We have a lot to be Thankful for this year, a nice warm house, Craig's good job, no urping for a while, a healthy family the list goes on and on!
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we had the marie's razzleberry pie!! sorry that you guys missed out on it. We also had that DELICIOUS sweet potato recipe from last year's Thanksgiving. Yum-o. oh, and Amy- in all seriousness- you look great! in the one pic with all of you (the front facing one)you don't even look prego. your workouts are paying off.
Love it! We had a super awesome time yesterday with you guys!! You are so much fun! Umm...all of the pie, and turkey is gone, but we are still working on everything else, still. Thanks SO MUCH for having us! Love you guys! (Baby Stella especially loves hanging out with baby Starkey!)
Would you please listen to the little rug rat and give him some PIE!!! (the chocolate one)I Like his southern accent...Grandma Starkey would be proud.
It looks like you had a great time. I wish we'd been there! Guess we'll have to come for Christmas instead!
bummer about the pie, but that turkey sounds DELICIOUS! Neat idea. Thanks for sharing. And again and again, LOVED that sweet potato casserole. Oh, my goodness - it was heavenly and sinful all at the same time! :) And the best part was that the kiddos didn't think so and we got to eat all the yummy leftovers!
Amy, I'd have to second that first comment...You look awesome!
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