I'm glad it wasn't just one day....Turkey with family was good, but my heart was missing a few people...here's what we did besides eat ourselves silly. I was trying (again) to master pie making and this year fell short by not getting to the pecan pie and pumpkin parfait. I also wanted to compare sweet potato vs. yam pie. As to the rest? 2 pumpkin from a sweet pumpkin I got at the produce section, 2 custard (one I forgot the sugar and added it after pouring the mix into the shell in the oven), an apple from honeycrisp and fuji combination and 2 sweet potato pies. I did a small turkey, the stuffing was awesome, and gravy. Noe was in the kitchen too and I helped with the chocolate squares and banana squares, noting the changes she incorporates to make this her own....while I was in Hawaii I ran into someone who said they still make MY chocolate squares.....I didn't know!!
So dinner was fab...other people brought meat stuffing (to die for and oddly with similar ingredients to our bread stuffing), waldorf salad, green bean casserole, rolls from scratch, and, of course, MORE PIE! Oh, and the grape punch from Thelesa's family---very close to wine!!
We don't have cable so there was no sports viewing. Noe had sent out a list of stuff so we could help another family and the kids covered some paper with kid art for the delivery box. After the delivery (ring the doorbell and run away, leaving the box of food and gifts) the gang was altogether again at the house. The kids headed to the toy/my attic space and there was some fort building and movie watching, some fell asleep! The adults played some games.
Next day (Black Friday) some people hadn't slept but found some good deals (I'm sorry, I don't think I want anything badly enough that I'd go stand in line at 3:30 a.m.!!) and we headed with our leftovers to play v-ball at the church. Kids had movies, and toys and general running around the gym!!
