Just cooked for 5 hours after working til 8 tonight and feel like I am truly going to die. I have been cooking everything from scratch per my childrens request. 8 homemade pumpkin pies with all of the scalded milk and fresh spices their tummies can hold. I roasted fresh garlic on the for the cheese mashed potatoes. Made cranberry/orange sausage with fresh rosemary and thyme, apples, onions, carrots, celery, dried cranberries and orange juice to mix with the stuffing. Peeled all of the mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes and put them in salt water in pots. Suateed clams in butter with onions and carrots to put in heavy cream and milk for our family tradition of 50 years Butter clam soup. ( secret ingredient is 7up) Icing my grandmothers crystal glasses for champagne, egg nog and milk. 4 different kinds of glasses and tons of pieces of china. All from my grandmothers wedding collection. Slow cooking the giblets for the gravy. My children learned all of the things I was taught and used to do for so many years tonight. I cant stand anymore and there are pies on the porch. Cooking the 22lb turkey overnight in special prepared broth at low temp and itll fall off the bone by the morning. Veggie trays made. House is clean and floors are mopped. My eyes are red and my feet hurt. I got talked into it this year and survived. Probably sit in the living room next year and watch them put these skills to use! ;) Moms job is nearly done.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:46:22 +0000
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