Sweet Sisters
Preparing to cook our fresh pumkin!
Making cranberry sauce!
Well, this year the turkey drama continues. Last year's turkey dude was just too much for me to deal with this year, so I decided to ask my local butcher if he could get a Thanksgiving turkey for me. He assured me that he could get a turkey for me without any problem and told me that I would just need to order it about a week in advance. When I went to place my turkey order, he told me that he could only get me a turkey "ordinaire" as the turkeys for Christmas are not ready yet. It is times like this when I really miss living in the US where Butterballs are in abundance around Thanksgiving! I mean if we are going to celebrate Thanksgiving, I want to have a nice turkey. I brought cornmeal from the States so that I could make cornbread dressing this year. We also bought a pumpkin so that we could make pumkin pie. But what kind of Thanksgiving would it be without a turkey?
I had just about decided that I would have to roast a chicken and deal with my disappointment, when I thought of one more store to try. It was the store that has fresh cranberries at this time of year! They said that they could order me a turkey "fermier" (aka farm raised and really good quality) without a problem. Elated, I asked for the price and made an appointment to pick up my turkey on Friday. When I picked up my turkey, the price was about twice as much as I had been quoted, but I took it anyway. It seems that Thanksgiving turkeys are hard to come by around here. Nevertheless, we had a real American Thanksgiving with turkey, dressing, roasted pumkin and butternut squash, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and pumkin pie!
