Please share your trials and tribulations of holiday meal preparation here

[lighter]

Looking forward to reading some good stories.

Merry Christmas to you,

 each and to all.....

esp cats paw: )

[lighter]

Oh no..... bad enough you started a fire but.... you incinerated your turkey too?

Yep.... that was what I was looking for... and good stories too.

My friend left the giblets in the first turkey she ever cooked.

Wouldn't have been so bad if her MIL wasn't a critical perfectionist who just loved to point things like that outL: /

[cats paw]

  I just remembered something.  Years back, I was working in a certain ED (ER) with a really great group of docs.  One of our
  regulars came in with a burn from taking the turkey out of the oven.  It had somehow landed on his inner upper thigh and
  groin area.

  After I had assessed and started treatment, I described the situation to the ED doc.

  He listened, and then deadpanned , " Giblets intact ? "

[Hopalong]

hand
in
cold
turkey
carcass

ergh

Hops

[lighter]

I hope you took off your jewelry first, lol

[Lupita]

I hate cooking. Last year I bought a frozen, already cooked, tourkey and eat it ofr a month. I will go to my son GFM this year and after that I will buy another frozen already cooked tourkey and eat it for a month. Like an elephant, little by little. With salad, that salad that comes alrady in baks ready to eat.

[lighter]

There's something to be said for already prepared food stuff.

No mess either.... which was my goal for a while there.

[Hopalong]

No more turkey eating for me...
one day, I wanna become a gourmet vegetarian cook and dazzle everybody with amazin' veggie meals.

I'm still a fishitarian though, and an eggandmilkitarian. Eventually...

meanwhile, I dumped a can of sardines over my salad and had a healthy dinner. after the cookies. before the bag of goldfish crackers.

oof.

ugh.

Hops

[Ami]

I am mostly vegetarian and WHEN a veggie meal bombs, it bombs BADLY(lol)  . You would be lucky to get the dog  to eat it( and mine won't-lol)                      Ami

[Hopalong]

ain't
no
jewels
on
these
speckled
thangs...

 
ain't
no
turkey
vitals
either

[lighter]

Hops... as I rubbed butter, salt (drew the line at going back in with pepper cause I forgot it) apples, garlic, onions inside the cold wet icky crevasse of a 3.55 pound roasting hen.......

I thought about you, sticking your (vegitarian) hand in a turkey cold wet turkey hole, lol...... so funny cause it suddently came to me that you were making a ha ha.

hee

[Hopalong]

gobble

[lighter]

Oh man.... you have to taste this roasting hen!

I layed her on a bed of garlic french bed pieces torn to the size of croutons..... drizzled olive oil and garlic... onions over all with plenty'o butter and it came out soooooooo wonderful!

The meat wasn't particularly flavorful or moist but who cared!  After I smothered it with juice and those crunchy morsels of bread, having browned in the liquids..... Oh my gosh!  2 out of 3 kids ate it.

You meat eaters have got to try this one.  A 3.5 pound bird takes 2 hours at 350 degrees and it fills the house with mama lovin smells..... mmmmm.

Roast with lid half the time then remove so it browns up like a pro the rest.  Baste some if you life but like I said..... after it's been smothered..... it doesn't matter: )

Also.... had a spinach, goat cheese salad with a nice nut mix that included dates and cranberries.  Used raspberry vinegrette and it was yummy.... roasted fingerling potatoes I boiled first then coverd in butter and a bit of garlic, salt and pepper..... sauteed brussel sprouts with, yup you guessed.... butter and garlic, lol... white wine and a splash of red cause I grabbed the wrong bottle.... very nice and every morsel went.  I made tons. 

To tell ya the truth.... I've been completely turned off of cooking since dating a professional chef with an inferiority complex.  He tore me down so much I finally just gave up cooking and left it all to him..... never felt the same about cooking after that. 

I think it's coming back: ) 

[Hopalong]

Well I if you're going to tear up a perfectly good piece of French furniture, that's really fowl, Lighter...but the veggies and the salad sound awesome.

::sniff, sniff, tracking odors to Lighter's place::

::tail wagging::

::nose twitching::

::I am Beagle, watch me hunt::

xo
Hops

[lighter]

Heh.... Fwench bed.